Beale Street Blues
E191250
"Beale Street Blues" is a classic early 20th-century American blues song that helped popularize the genre and is closely associated with the musical culture of Memphis, Tennessee.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beale Street Blues canonical | 3 |
| "Beale Street Blues" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1675473 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Beale Street Blues Context triple: [W. C. Handy, notableWork, Beale Street Blues]
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A.
Three O’Clock Blues
"Three O’Clock Blues" is a classic blues song, famously recorded by B.B. King and later featured as a duet with Eric Clapton on their collaborative album "Riding with the King."
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B.
The Weary Blues
The Weary Blues is a landmark 1926 poetry collection by Langston Hughes that helped define the voice and themes of the Harlem Renaissance.
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C.
Big Blues
Big Blues is the collective name for the athletic teams representing Bluefield State University in collegiate sports competitions.
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D.
Bell Bottom Blues
"Bell Bottom Blues" is a blues-rock song by Derek and the Dominos, co-written and performed by Eric Clapton, renowned for its emotional guitar work and themes of unrequited love.
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E.
Blues for Mister Charlie
Blues for Mister Charlie is a 1964 stage play by James Baldwin that confronts racism and injustice in the American South, loosely inspired by the murder of Emmett Till.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Beale Street Blues Target entity description: "Beale Street Blues" is a classic early 20th-century American blues song that helped popularize the genre and is closely associated with the musical culture of Memphis, Tennessee.
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A.
Three O’Clock Blues
"Three O’Clock Blues" is a classic blues song, famously recorded by B.B. King and later featured as a duet with Eric Clapton on their collaborative album "Riding with the King."
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B.
The Weary Blues
The Weary Blues is a landmark 1926 poetry collection by Langston Hughes that helped define the voice and themes of the Harlem Renaissance.
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C.
Big Blues
Big Blues is the collective name for the athletic teams representing Bluefield State University in collegiate sports competitions.
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D.
Bell Bottom Blues
"Bell Bottom Blues" is a blues-rock song by Derek and the Dominos, co-written and performed by Eric Clapton, renowned for its emotional guitar work and themes of unrequited love.
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E.
Blues for Mister Charlie
Blues for Mister Charlie is a 1964 stage play by James Baldwin that confronts racism and injustice in the American South, loosely inspired by the murder of Emmett Till.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blues standard
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| alternateTitleForm | Beale St. Blues ⓘ |
| associatedMovement | early blues movement ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Beale Street
ⓘ
Memphis ⓘ
surface form:
Memphis, Tennessee
|
| associatedWithPerson |
W. C. Handy
ⓘ
surface form:
“Father of the Blues” W. C. Handy
|
| composer | W. C. Handy ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| firstPublicationFormat | sheet music ⓘ |
| genre | blues ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation |
Beale Street
ⓘ
surface form:
Beale Street entertainment district
Memphis music culture ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance |
helped establish commercial popularity of blues music
ⓘ
one of the earliest published blues songs ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
American popular music
ⓘ
development of jazz standards ⓘ |
| hasMusicalForm |
12-bar blues
ⓘ
song with verse and chorus ⓘ |
| hasPlaceSubject |
Beale Street
ⓘ
Memphis, Tennessee, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Memphis, Tennessee
|
| hasTheme |
African American experience
ⓘ
music and entertainment ⓘ nightlife ⓘ urban life ⓘ |
| helpedPopularize | blues ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
jazz
ⓘ
traditional pop ⓘ |
| isStandardIn |
Dixieland jazz
ⓘ
New Orleans jazz ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | W. C. Handy ⓘ |
| notableRecordingBy |
Benny Goodman
ⓘ
Bessie Smith ⓘ Cab Calloway ⓘ Duke Ellington ⓘ Fats Waller ⓘ Louis Armstrong ⓘ Nat King Cole ⓘ Peggy Lee ⓘ Ray Charles ⓘ Tommy Dorsey ⓘ |
| partOfRepertoire |
classic blues repertoire
ⓘ
traditional jazz repertoire ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1916 ⓘ |
| publisher | W. C. Handy Music Company ⓘ |
| setInFictionalOrRealLocation | Beale Avenue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
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Input
Subject: Beale Street Blues Description of subject: "Beale Street Blues" is a classic early 20th-century American blues song that helped popularize the genre and is closely associated with the musical culture of Memphis, Tennessee.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
W. C. Handy
this entity surface form:
"Beale Street Blues"