Cora Walton
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Cora Walton, better known as Koko Taylor, was a powerhouse American blues singer celebrated as the "Queen of the Blues" for her raw, gritty vocals and influential Chicago blues recordings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cora Walton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6661000 — 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: Cora Walton Context triple: [Koko Taylor, birthName, Cora Walton]
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A.
Cora Hudson
Cora Hudson is a supporting character on the sitcom "Mork & Mindy," known as Mindy’s warm, down-to-earth grandmother.
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B.
Cora Crane
Cora Crane was an American writer, journalist, and proprietor of a Jacksonville, Florida brothel, best known for her long-term relationship with author Stephen Crane and her vivid reportage from the Spanish-American War.
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C.
Cora Tull
Cora Tull is a deeply religious, judgmental neighbor in William Faulkner’s novel "As I Lay Dying," serving as a moral commentator on the Bundren family’s actions.
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D.
Cora Parsons
Cora Parsons was an American socialite best known for her high-profile marriage to New Jersey politician and businessman John Dryden Kuser.
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E.
Cora Smith
Cora Smith is the seductive and scheming femme fatale who conspires with her lover to murder her husband in the classic film noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946).
- 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: Cora Walton Target entity description: Cora Walton, better known as Koko Taylor, was a powerhouse American blues singer celebrated as the "Queen of the Blues" for her raw, gritty vocals and influential Chicago blues recordings.
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A.
Cora Hudson
Cora Hudson is a supporting character on the sitcom "Mork & Mindy," known as Mindy’s warm, down-to-earth grandmother.
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B.
Cora Crane
Cora Crane was an American writer, journalist, and proprietor of a Jacksonville, Florida brothel, best known for her long-term relationship with author Stephen Crane and her vivid reportage from the Spanish-American War.
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C.
Cora Tull
Cora Tull is a deeply religious, judgmental neighbor in William Faulkner’s novel "As I Lay Dying," serving as a moral commentator on the Bundren family’s actions.
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D.
Cora Parsons
Cora Parsons was an American socialite best known for her high-profile marriage to New Jersey politician and businessman John Dryden Kuser.
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E.
Cora Smith
Cora Smith is the seductive and scheming femme fatale who conspires with her lover to murder her husband in the classic film noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blues singer
ⓘ
human ⓘ stage name ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 2000s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Blues Music Award
NERFINISHED
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Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Recording NERFINISHED ⓘ WC Handy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Cora Walton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Willie Dixon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| fieldOfWork | music industry ⓘ |
| genre |
Chicago blues
NERFINISHED
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blues ⓘ electric blues ⓘ rhythm and blues ⓘ |
| hasCanonicalName | Cora Walton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | Queen of the Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Howlin’ Wolf
NERFINISHED
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Muddy Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ Willie Dixon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | modern blues ⓘ |
| instrument | voice ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | English ⓘ |
| musicalStyle | raw gritty vocal delivery ⓘ |
| nickname | Queen of the Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Chicago blues recordings
ⓘ
powerful raw gritty vocal style ⓘ powerful stage presence ⓘ |
| notableWork |
I Got What It Takes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
I’m a Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ Wang Dang Doodle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
singer
ⓘ
songwriter ⓘ |
| performerOf | Chicago blues standards ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Chicago, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Alligator Records
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chess Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refersTo | Cora Walton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| stageName | Koko Taylor 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
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: Cora Walton Description of subject: Cora Walton, better known as Koko Taylor, was a powerhouse American blues singer celebrated as the "Queen of the Blues" for her raw, gritty vocals and influential Chicago blues recordings.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.