Grammy Award for Best Roots Gospel Album

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Grammy Award category music award

The Grammy Award for Best Roots Gospel Album is a music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize excellence in traditional and roots-oriented gospel albums.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Grammy Award for Best Traditional Gospel Album	3
Grammy Award (with The Blind Boys of Alabama)	2
Grammy Award for Best Roots Gospel Album canonical	2

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12925966 — 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: Grammy Award for Best Roots Gospel Album
Context triple: [My Savior, awardReceived, Grammy Award for Best Roots Gospel Album]

A. Grammy Award for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album
The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album was a music industry honor recognizing excellence in traditional soul gospel recordings.
B. Grammy Award for Best Gospel Album
The Grammy Award for Best Gospel Album is a prestigious music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in gospel music album recordings.
C. Grammy Award for Best Gospel Performance/Song
The Grammy Award for Best Gospel Performance/Song is a music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding vocal or instrumental gospel recordings.
D. Grammy Award for Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album
The Grammy Award for Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album was a music industry honor recognizing outstanding Christian music recordings that blended gospel themes with rock or rap styles.
E. Grammy Award for Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording
The Grammy Award for Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording was an early Grammy category recognizing outstanding performances in gospel and other religious music.
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: Grammy Award for Best Roots Gospel Album
Target entity description: The Grammy Award for Best Roots Gospel Album is a music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize excellence in traditional and roots-oriented gospel albums.

A. Grammy Award for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album
The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album was a music industry honor recognizing excellence in traditional soul gospel recordings.
B. Grammy Award for Best Gospel Album
The Grammy Award for Best Gospel Album is a prestigious music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in gospel music album recordings.
C. Grammy Award for Best Gospel Performance/Song
The Grammy Award for Best Gospel Performance/Song is a music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding vocal or instrumental gospel recordings.
D. Grammy Award for Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album
The Grammy Award for Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album was a music industry honor recognizing outstanding Christian music recordings that blended gospel themes with rock or rap styles.
E. Grammy Award for Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording
The Grammy Award for Best Gospel or Other Religious Recording was an early Grammy category recognizing outstanding performances in gospel and other religious music.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (30)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Grammy Award category ⓘ music award ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Best Roots Gospel Album ⓘ
awardCategoryNumbering	gospel/roots field ⓘ
awardType	album award ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
field	gospel music ⓘ
firstAwarded	2015 ⓘ
frequency	annual ⓘ
genre	roots gospel ⓘ traditional gospel ⓘ
hasCategoryScope	artists ⓘ engineers ⓘ producers ⓘ
hasTopic	roots gospel music ⓘ traditional gospel music ⓘ
inception	2015 ⓘ
isSubsetOf	Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Grammy categories ⓘ
languageOfName	English ⓘ
locatedInJurisdiction	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
medium	album ⓘ
notableChange	created during 2010s Grammy category restructuring ⓘ
officialWebsite	https://www.grammy.com ⓘ
organizer	Recording Academy ⓘ
partOf	Grammy Awards ⓘ linked to: Grammy Award
presentedBy	Recording Academy ⓘ
presentedFor	excellence in roots-oriented gospel albums ⓘ excellence in traditional gospel albums ⓘ
replaced	Grammy Award for Best Traditional Gospel Album ⓘ linked to: Grammy Award for Best Roots Gospel Album
selectionProcess	voting by members of the Recording Academy ⓘ

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Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

My Savior → awardReceived → Grammy Award for Best Roots Gospel Album ⓘ

Gloria Gaynor → awardReceived → Grammy Award for Best Roots Gospel Album ⓘ

Clarence Fountain → awardReceived → Grammy Award (with The Blind Boys of Alabama) ⓘ