Cross Road Blues
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"Cross Road Blues" is a seminal 1936 Delta blues song by Robert Johnson that has become one of the most influential and mythologized recordings in blues and rock history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cross Road Blues canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7075878 — 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: Cross Road Blues Context triple: [Robert Johnson, notableWork, Cross Road Blues]
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A.
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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B.
Crescent City Blues
Crescent City Blues is a 1953 slow-tempo blues ballad written by Gordon Jenkins, best known today as the melodic and lyrical basis for Johnny Cash’s later hit “Folsom Prison Blues.”
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C.
Subterranean Homesick Blues
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" is a 1965 Bob Dylan song famed for its rapid-fire, surreal lyrics and its influential cue-card style promotional film often cited as a precursor to the modern music video.
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D.
Talkin' Blues
"Talkin' Blues" is a roots reggae song by Bob Marley and the Wailers, known for its socially conscious lyrics and laid-back groove, featured on the landmark album "Natty Dread."
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E.
Black Crow Blues
"Black Crow Blues" is an early Bob Dylan song that blends folk and blues influences, featured on his 1964 album *Another Side of Bob Dylan*.
- 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: Cross Road Blues Target entity description: "Cross Road Blues" is a seminal 1936 Delta blues song by Robert Johnson that has become one of the most influential and mythologized recordings in blues and rock history.
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A.
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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B.
Crescent City Blues
Crescent City Blues is a 1953 slow-tempo blues ballad written by Gordon Jenkins, best known today as the melodic and lyrical basis for Johnny Cash’s later hit “Folsom Prison Blues.”
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C.
Subterranean Homesick Blues
"Subterranean Homesick Blues" is a 1965 Bob Dylan song famed for its rapid-fire, surreal lyrics and its influential cue-card style promotional film often cited as a precursor to the modern music video.
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D.
Talkin' Blues
"Talkin' Blues" is a roots reggae song by Bob Marley and the Wailers, known for its socially conscious lyrics and laid-back groove, featured on the landmark album "Natty Dread."
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E.
Black Crow Blues
"Black Crow Blues" is an early Bob Dylan song that blends folk and blues influences, featured on his 1964 album *Another Side of Bob Dylan*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Delta blues song
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Crossroads
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Crossroads Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Robert Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| coveredBy |
Cream
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elmore James NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Clapton NERFINISHED ⓘ John Mayer NERFINISHED ⓘ Lynyrd Skynyrd NERFINISHED ⓘ The Allman Brothers Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Delta blues
ⓘ
blues ⓘ |
| guitarist | Robert Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| guitarStyle | bottleneck slide guitar ⓘ |
| hasFormat | 78 rpm single ⓘ |
| hasMythology | deal with the devil at the crossroads ⓘ |
| influencedArtist |
Cream
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elmore James NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Clapton NERFINISHED ⓘ Led Zeppelin NERFINISHED ⓘ Muddy Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rolling Stones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
Chicago blues
NERFINISHED
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electric blues ⓘ rock ⓘ rock and roll ⓘ |
| key | A (commonly in later covers) ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Robert Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with the Robert Johnson crossroads myth
ⓘ
influence on blues music ⓘ influence on rock music ⓘ |
| performer | Robert Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Don Law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordedIn | San Antonio, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingDate | 1936-11-27 ⓘ |
| recordingYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| recordLabel | Vocalion Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| side | A-side ⓘ |
| tempo | medium ⓘ |
| theme |
desperation
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spiritual crisis ⓘ travel ⓘ |
| title | Cross Road Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalist | Robert Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | falsetto leaps ⓘ |
| writerCountry | United States 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: Cross Road Blues Description of subject: "Cross Road Blues" is a seminal 1936 Delta blues song by Robert Johnson that has become one of the most influential and mythologized recordings in blues and rock history.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.