Tishomingo Blues
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Tishomingo Blues is a crime novel by Elmore Leonard that blends Southern noir, Dixieland jazz, and dark humor in a story of a high-diver entangled with the Dixie Mafia and Civil War reenactors.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tishomingo Blues canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3286151 — 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: Tishomingo Blues Context triple: [Elmore Leonard, notableWork, Tishomingo Blues]
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A.
Beale Street Blues
"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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B.
Statesboro Blues
"Statesboro Blues" is a classic blues song popularized in rock music by The Allman Brothers Band, especially through their influential live performances.
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C.
Tombstone Blues
"Tombstone Blues" is a fast-paced, surreal, electric blues-rock song by Bob Dylan, known for its dense, visionary lyrics and prominent placement on his landmark 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited.
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D.
Go Down, Moses
"Go Down, Moses" is a 1942 collection of interrelated short stories by William Faulkner that explores themes of race, family, and the legacy of the American South through the history of the McCaslin plantation.
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E.
Chattanooga Blues
Chattanooga Blues was an early name of the minor league baseball team that later became known as the Chattanooga Lookouts.
- 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: Tishomingo Blues Target entity description: Tishomingo Blues is a crime novel by Elmore Leonard that blends Southern noir, Dixieland jazz, and dark humor in a story of a high-diver entangled with the Dixie Mafia and Civil War reenactors.
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A.
Beale Street Blues
"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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B.
Statesboro Blues
"Statesboro Blues" is a classic blues song popularized in rock music by The Allman Brothers Band, especially through their influential live performances.
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C.
Tombstone Blues
"Tombstone Blues" is a fast-paced, surreal, electric blues-rock song by Bob Dylan, known for its dense, visionary lyrics and prominent placement on his landmark 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited.
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D.
Go Down, Moses
"Go Down, Moses" is a 1942 collection of interrelated short stories by William Faulkner that explores themes of race, family, and the legacy of the American South through the history of the McCaslin plantation.
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E.
Chattanooga Blues
Chattanooga Blues was an early name of the minor league baseball team that later became known as the Chattanooga Lookouts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Elmore Leonard ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
Civil War reenactors
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Dixie Mafia ⓘ small-town Mississippi life ⓘ |
| featuresElement |
Civil War reenactments
ⓘ
Dixie Mafia ⓘ Dixieland jazz ⓘ high-diving ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern noir
ⓘ
crime fiction ⓘ dark comedy ⓘ noir fiction ⓘ |
| hasNotableCharacter |
John Rau
ⓘ
Loretta ⓘ Robert Taylor ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Southern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American South
crime ⓘ entertainment industry ⓘ historical reenactment ⓘ jazz ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
American history and memory
ⓘ
corruption ⓘ identity ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ organized crime ⓘ race relations in the American South ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| hasTone |
darkly comic
ⓘ
suspenseful ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary American crime fiction ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
dialogue-driven
ⓘ
hardboiled ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Dennis Lenahan ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| partOf | Elmore Leonard bibliography ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | high-diver ⓘ |
| publisher | William Morrow ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Mississippi ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | late 20th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Tishomingo Blues Description of subject: Tishomingo Blues is a crime novel by Elmore Leonard that blends Southern noir, Dixieland jazz, and dark humor in a story of a high-diver entangled with the Dixie Mafia and Civil War reenactors.
Referenced by (1)
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