Bad Case of the Blues
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"Bad Case of the Blues" is a country song recorded by pioneering African-American country singer Linda Martell, known for showcasing her soulful vocal style during her groundbreaking late-1960s career.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bad Case of the Blues canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9878639 — 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: Bad Case of the Blues Context triple: [Linda Martell, notableSong, Bad Case of the Blues]
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A.
Still Got the Blues
"Still Got the Blues" is a 1990 blues-rock song and title track by Irish guitarist Gary Moore, renowned for its emotive guitar solos and status as one of his signature pieces.
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B.
Blame It on the Blues
"Blame It on the Blues" is an early 20th-century blues song performed by pioneering American blues singer Ma Rainey.
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C.
I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
"I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" is a popular 1983 Elton John ballad known for its soulful melody, harmonica solo by Stevie Wonder, and themes of love and longing.
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D.
Hangman Blues
"Hangman Blues" is a song by Smog (Bill Callahan), featured on his 1997 lo-fi indie folk album *The Doctor Came at Dawn*.
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E.
Every Day I Have the Blues
"Every Day I Have the Blues" is a classic blues standard, popularized by B.B. King, that has become one of the most frequently recorded and performed songs in the genre.
- 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: Bad Case of the Blues Target entity description: "Bad Case of the Blues" is a country song recorded by pioneering African-American country singer Linda Martell, known for showcasing her soulful vocal style during her groundbreaking late-1960s career.
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A.
Still Got the Blues
"Still Got the Blues" is a 1990 blues-rock song and title track by Irish guitarist Gary Moore, renowned for its emotive guitar solos and status as one of his signature pieces.
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B.
Blame It on the Blues
"Blame It on the Blues" is an early 20th-century blues song performed by pioneering American blues singer Ma Rainey.
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C.
I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
"I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" is a popular 1983 Elton John ballad known for its soulful melody, harmonica solo by Stevie Wonder, and themes of love and longing.
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D.
Hangman Blues
"Hangman Blues" is a song by Smog (Bill Callahan), featured on his 1997 lo-fi indie folk album *The Doctor Came at Dawn*.
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E.
Every Day I Have the Blues
"Every Day I Have the Blues" is a classic blues standard, popularized by B.B. King, that has become one of the most frequently recorded and performed songs in the genre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| associatedWith | pioneering African-American presence in country music ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre | country music ⓘ |
| hasAudience |
country music listeners
ⓘ
fans of Linda Martell ⓘ |
| hasMainPerformerRole | lead vocals ⓘ |
| hasPerformerEthnicityContext | African-American country singer ⓘ |
| hasSubject | blues-themed emotional hardship ⓘ |
| isPartOfCareerPhase | Linda Martell's groundbreaking late-1960s career ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicGenreInfluence |
country
ⓘ
soul ⓘ |
| notableFor | showcasing Linda Martell's soulful vocal style ⓘ |
| partOf | Linda Martell discography ⓘ |
| performer | Linda Martell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod | late 1960s ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Linda Martell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | soulful vocals ⓘ |
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: Bad Case of the Blues Description of subject: "Bad Case of the Blues" is a country song recorded by pioneering African-American country singer Linda Martell, known for showcasing her soulful vocal style during her groundbreaking late-1960s career.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.