Downhearted Blues
E305822
"Downhearted Blues" is a classic 1923 blues song, first recorded by Bessie Smith, that became a major hit and a landmark in early American blues music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Downhearted Blues canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2875449 — 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: Downhearted Blues Context triple: [Bessie Smith, notableWork, Downhearted 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.
Dirt Road Blues
"Dirt Road Blues" is a gritty, up-tempo blues track by Bob Dylan from his acclaimed late-career comeback album *Time Out of Mind*.
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C.
Every Day I Have the Blues
"Every Day I Have the Blues" is a classic blues standard, popularized by B.B. King, that has become one of the most frequently recorded and performed songs in the genre.
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D.
Worried Life Blues
"Worried Life Blues" is a classic blues song, originally recorded by Big Maceo Merriweather, that has become a widely covered standard in the genre.
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E.
Statesboro Blues
"Statesboro Blues" is a classic blues song popularized in rock music by The Allman Brothers Band, especially through their influential live performances.
- 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: Downhearted Blues Target entity description: "Downhearted Blues" is a classic 1923 blues song, first recorded by Bessie Smith, that became a major hit and a landmark in early American blues music.
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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.
Dirt Road Blues
"Dirt Road Blues" is a gritty, up-tempo blues track by Bob Dylan from his acclaimed late-career comeback album *Time Out of Mind*.
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C.
Every Day I Have the Blues
"Every Day I Have the Blues" is a classic blues standard, popularized by B.B. King, that has become one of the most frequently recorded and performed songs in the genre.
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D.
Worried Life Blues
"Worried Life Blues" is a classic blues song, originally recorded by Big Maceo Merriweather, that has become a widely covered standard in the genre.
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E.
Statesboro Blues
"Statesboro Blues" is a classic blues song popularized in rock music by The Allman Brothers Band, especially through their influential live performances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blues song
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song ⓘ sound recording ⓘ |
| composer | Lovie Austin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describedAs |
classic 1923 blues song
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landmark in early American blues music ⓘ |
| firstRecordingYear | 1923 ⓘ |
| genre | blues ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | early hit record in the blues genre ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | development of classic female blues ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecording | Bessie Smith 1923 recording ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Downhearted Blues self-link ⓘ |
| isClassicOf | early American blues music ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Alberta Hunter ⓘ |
| musicalForm | 12-bar blues ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with Bessie Smith
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commercial success in the 1920s ⓘ |
| performanceType | vocal blues ⓘ |
| performer | Bessie Smith ⓘ |
| recordedBy | Bessie Smith ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Columbia Records ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1923 ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | romantic disappointment ⓘ |
| vocalist | Bessie Smith ⓘ |
| writer | Lovie Austin ⓘ |
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
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Downhearted Blues Description of subject: "Downhearted Blues" is a classic 1923 blues song, first recorded by Bessie Smith, that became a major hit and a landmark in early American blues music.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Bessie Smith