"Stagger Lee"
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"Stagger Lee" is a traditional American folk ballad about the outlaw Stagolee that has been reinterpreted across blues, folk, and rock music, including a dark, violent rendition by Nick Cave.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "Stagger Lee" canonical | 1 |
| Stagger Lee | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4868354 — 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: "Stagger Lee" Context triple: [Nick Cave, song, "Stagger Lee"]
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A.
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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B.
Stompin’ at the Savoy
"Stompin’ at the Savoy" is a classic swing-era jazz standard, closely associated with the Harlem Savoy Ballroom and famed for its infectious rhythm and enduring popularity among big band and jazz ensembles.
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C.
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.
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D.
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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E.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is a 1932 American pre-Code crime drama film, based on a true story, that exposed the brutal realities of Southern chain gangs and became a landmark in socially conscious cinema.
- 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: "Stagger Lee" Target entity description: "Stagger Lee" is a traditional American folk ballad about the outlaw Stagolee that has been reinterpreted across blues, folk, and rock music, including a dark, violent rendition by Nick Cave.
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A.
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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B.
Stompin’ at the Savoy
"Stompin’ at the Savoy" is a classic swing-era jazz standard, closely associated with the Harlem Savoy Ballroom and famed for its infectious rhythm and enduring popularity among big band and jazz ensembles.
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C.
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.
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D.
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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E.
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang is a 1932 American pre-Code crime drama film, based on a true story, that exposed the brutal realities of Southern chain gangs and became a landmark in socially conscious cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American folk song
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murder ballad ⓘ song ⓘ traditional American folk ballad ⓘ |
| album | Murder Ballads NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
killing of Billy Lyons by Lee Shelton
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traditional ballad Stagger Lee ⓘ |
| collectedIn | American folk song anthologies ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| firstKnownPublicationForm | song sheet ⓘ |
| firstKnownPublicationYear | 1911 ⓘ |
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
blues ⓘ folk ⓘ murder ballad ⓘ rock ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Billy Lyons
NERFINISHED
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Stagolee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacterRole |
Billy Lyons is the victim
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Stagolee is an outlaw ⓘ |
| hasCulturalStatus |
American folk standard
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blues standard ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Stagolee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNickCaveVersion | Stagger Lee (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds song) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableRecording |
Dr. John version
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Fats Domino version ⓘ Lloyd Price version ⓘ Mississippi John Hurt version ⓘ Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds version ⓘ Samuel L. Jackson film performance version ⓘ Taj Mahal version ⓘ The Clash live version ⓘ The Grateful Dead version ⓘ Wilson Pickett version ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling |
Stack-O-Lee
NERFINISHED
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Stackerlee NERFINISHED ⓘ Stagolee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
country blues
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rhythm and blues ⓘ rock and roll ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| performer | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| settingLocation | St. Louis, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOfStudy |
African American studies
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American folklore scholarship ⓘ popular music studies ⓘ |
| theme |
crime
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gambling dispute ⓘ outlaw mythology ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| tone |
dark
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violent ⓘ |
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: "Stagger Lee" Description of subject: "Stagger Lee" is a traditional American folk ballad about the outlaw Stagolee that has been reinterpreted across blues, folk, and rock music, including a dark, violent rendition by Nick Cave.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.