Paris Blues
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Paris Blues is a 1961 romantic drama film set in Paris’s jazz scene, starring Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as expatriate musicians navigating love and racial tensions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paris Blues canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11328244 — 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: Paris Blues Context triple: [Walter Bernstein, notableWork, Paris Blues]
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A.
Beverly Hills Blues
"Beverly Hills Blues" is a song featured on the soundtrack of the American singing competition television series *The Voice*.
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B.
Mademoiselle chante le blues
Mademoiselle chante le blues is a popular French chanson and blues-influenced song that helped establish Patricia Kaas as a major figure in French pop music.
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C.
Empress of the Blues
Empress of the Blues is the honorific title given to legendary American blues singer Bessie Smith, renowned for her powerful voice and major influence on early 20th-century music.
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D.
Miami Blues
Miami Blues is a 1990 darkly comic crime film, based on Charles Willeford’s novel, about an unstable ex-con whose violent crime spree in Miami entangles him with a naive young woman and a weary detective.
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E.
West End Blues
"West End Blues" is a landmark 1928 jazz recording renowned for Louis Armstrong's virtuosic trumpet intro and its pivotal role in the development of solo improvisation in jazz.
- 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: Paris Blues Target entity description: Paris Blues is a 1961 romantic drama film set in Paris’s jazz scene, starring Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as expatriate musicians navigating love and racial tensions.
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A.
Beverly Hills Blues
"Beverly Hills Blues" is a song featured on the soundtrack of the American singing competition television series *The Voice*.
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B.
Mademoiselle chante le blues
Mademoiselle chante le blues is a popular French chanson and blues-influenced song that helped establish Patricia Kaas as a major figure in French pop music.
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C.
Empress of the Blues
Empress of the Blues is the honorific title given to legendary American blues singer Bessie Smith, renowned for her powerful voice and major influence on early 20th-century music.
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D.
Miami Blues
Miami Blues is a 1990 darkly comic crime film, based on Charles Willeford’s novel, about an unstable ex-con whose violent crime spree in Miami entangles him with a naive young woman and a weary detective.
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E.
West End Blues
"West End Blues" is a landmark 1928 jazz recording renowned for Louis Armstrong's virtuosic trumpet intro and its pivotal role in the development of solo improvisation in jazz.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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romantic drama film ⓘ |
| basedOn | novel "Paris Blues" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Harold Flender NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhiteColor | black-and-white ⓘ |
| character |
Connie Lampson
NERFINISHED
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Eddie Cook NERFINISHED ⓘ Lillian Corning NERFINISHED ⓘ Ram Bowen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Christian Matras NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Duke Ellington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Martin Ritt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discussesTheme |
artistic integrity
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love ⓘ racism ⓘ |
| distributor | United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Roger Dwyre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresMusicBy | Duke Ellington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresPerformanceBy | Louis Armstrong NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
romance film ⓘ romantic drama ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Barbara Laage
NERFINISHED
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Diahann Carroll NERFINISHED ⓘ Joanne Woodward NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis Armstrong NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ Serge Reggiani NERFINISHED ⓘ Sidney Poitier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFilmRating | Not Rated (original release) ⓘ |
| mainSubject | jazz ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
expatriate jazz musicians
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interracial romance ⓘ racial tensions ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays | African American experience in Europe ⓘ |
| producer | Sam Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Pennebaker Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 1961-09-27 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1961 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 99 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Luther Davis
NERFINISHED
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Walter Bernstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Paris ⓘ |
| title | Paris Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Paris Blues Description of subject: Paris Blues is a 1961 romantic drama film set in Paris’s jazz scene, starring Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as expatriate musicians navigating love and racial tensions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.