Mean Old World
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"Mean Old World" is a classic blues song by guitarist and singer T-Bone Walker, showcasing his influential electric blues style and expressive guitar work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mean Old World canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7371371 — 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: Mean Old World Context triple: [T-Bone Walker, notableWork, Mean Old World]
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A.
Middle World
Middle World is the central earthly realm in Tengrism, where humans live between the upper spiritual heavens and the lower underworld.
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B.
Old World
Old World is a historical-geographical term referring to Africa, Europe, and Asia, the parts of the world known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas.
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C.
Domnei
Domnei is a 1913 fantasy romance novel by James Branch Cabell, set in his imaginary medieval realm and noted for its ornate prose and ironic treatment of chivalric ideals.
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D.
Antibia
Antibia is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as the wife of Sthenelus, a king of Mycenae in the heroic age.
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E.
Angyalföld
Angyalföld is a neighborhood in Budapest, Hungary, forming a major part of the city’s 13th district on the Pest side of the Danube.
- 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: Mean Old World Target entity description: "Mean Old World" is a classic blues song by guitarist and singer T-Bone Walker, showcasing his influential electric blues style and expressive guitar work.
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A.
Middle World
Middle World is the central earthly realm in Tengrism, where humans live between the upper spiritual heavens and the lower underworld.
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B.
Old World
Old World is a historical-geographical term referring to Africa, Europe, and Asia, the parts of the world known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas.
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C.
Domnei
Domnei is a 1913 fantasy romance novel by James Branch Cabell, set in his imaginary medieval realm and noted for its ornate prose and ironic treatment of chivalric ideals.
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D.
Antibia
Antibia is a minor figure in Greek mythology known primarily as the wife of Sthenelus, a king of Mycenae in the heroic age.
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E.
Angyalföld
Angyalföld is a neighborhood in Budapest, Hungary, forming a major part of the city’s 13th district on the Pest side of the Danube.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| associatedWithArtist | T-Bone Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithEra | 1940s blues ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | postwar electric blues ⓘ |
| composer | T-Bone Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| featuresInstrument | electric guitar ⓘ |
| genre |
blues
ⓘ
electric blues ⓘ |
| guitarist | T-Bone Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| guitarStyle |
jazz-influenced blues phrasing
ⓘ
single-note electric lead ⓘ |
| hasMusicalStyle | Texas blues NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRecognition | classic blues standard ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
emotional pain
ⓘ
hardship ⓘ romantic troubles ⓘ |
| influencedGenre |
blues rock
ⓘ
modern electric blues ⓘ |
| isPartOf | T-Bone Walker repertoire ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | T-Bone Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
expressive guitar work
ⓘ
influential electric blues style ⓘ |
| performer | T-Bone Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordingType | studio recording ⓘ |
| vocalist | T-Bone Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | blues vocal ⓘ |
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: Mean Old World Description of subject: "Mean Old World" is a classic blues song by guitarist and singer T-Bone Walker, showcasing his influential electric blues style and expressive guitar work.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
T-Bone Walker
subject surface form:
T-Bone Walker