Arlo Guthrie
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Arlo Guthrie is an American folk singer-songwriter and storyteller best known for his satirical talking blues song "Alice's Restaurant" and for continuing the musical and political legacy of his father, Woody Guthrie.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arlo Guthrie canonical | 14 |
| Arlo Davy Guthrie | 1 |
| Arlo Guthrie (character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1921804 — 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: Arlo Guthrie Context triple: [Woody Guthrie, child, Arlo Guthrie]
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A.
Tom Paxton
Tom Paxton is an influential American folk singer-songwriter known for his topical protest songs, storytelling ballads, and significant role in the 1960s folk music revival.
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B.
Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie was an American folk singer-songwriter and political troubadour whose socially conscious songs, including "This Land Is Your Land," profoundly shaped 20th-century popular and protest music.
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C.
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Ramblin' Jack Elliott is an influential American folk singer and guitarist known for his storytelling style and for helping popularize traditional folk music during the mid-20th-century folk revival.
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D.
Nora Guthrie
Nora Guthrie is an American producer, curator, and archivist best known for preserving and promoting the musical legacy of her father, folk icon Woody Guthrie.
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E.
Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger was a seminal American folk singer, songwriter, and social activist whose music and advocacy were central to the 20th-century folk revival and numerous progressive movements.
- 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: Arlo Guthrie Target entity description: Arlo Guthrie is an American folk singer-songwriter and storyteller best known for his satirical talking blues song "Alice's Restaurant" and for continuing the musical and political legacy of his father, Woody Guthrie.
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A.
Tom Paxton
Tom Paxton is an influential American folk singer-songwriter known for his topical protest songs, storytelling ballads, and significant role in the 1960s folk music revival.
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B.
Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie was an American folk singer-songwriter and political troubadour whose socially conscious songs, including "This Land Is Your Land," profoundly shaped 20th-century popular and protest music.
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C.
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Ramblin' Jack Elliott is an influential American folk singer and guitarist known for his storytelling style and for helping popularize traditional folk music during the mid-20th-century folk revival.
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D.
Nora Guthrie
Nora Guthrie is an American producer, curator, and archivist best known for preserving and promoting the musical legacy of her father, folk icon Woody Guthrie.
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E.
Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger was a seminal American folk singer, songwriter, and social activist whose music and advocacy were central to the 20th-century folk revival and numerous progressive movements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American musician
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folk singer ⓘ human ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ storyteller ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Pete Seeger
ⓘ
Guthrie family ⓘ
surface form:
The Guthrie Family
Woody Guthrie ⓘ |
| childOf |
Marjorie Mazia Guthrie
ⓘ
surface form:
Marge Greenblatt Guthrie
Woody Guthrie ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947-07-10 ⓘ |
| familyName | Guthrie ⓘ |
| father | Woody Guthrie ⓘ |
| founded |
Guthrie Center, Iowa
ⓘ
surface form:
The Guthrie Center
The Guthrie Foundation ⓘ |
| fullName |
Arlo Guthrie
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Arlo Davy Guthrie
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
folk music
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folk rock ⓘ talking blues ⓘ |
| givenName |
Arlo Bates
ⓘ
surface form:
Arlo
|
| influencedBy |
Pete Seeger
ⓘ
Woody Guthrie ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
harmonica ⓘ piano ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mother |
Marjorie Mazia Guthrie
ⓘ
surface form:
Marge Greenblatt Guthrie
|
| movement | 1960s counterculture ⓘ |
| notableFor | continuing the musical and political legacy of Woody Guthrie ⓘ |
| notableSongType | satirical talking blues ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Alice's Restaurant
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Alice's Restaurant Massacree ⓘ City of New Orleans ⓘ Coming into Los Angeles ⓘ Running Down the Road ⓘ The Motorcycle Song ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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musician ⓘ recording artist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| performedAt |
Woodstock 1969
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surface form:
Woodstock Festival (1969)
|
| placeOfBirth |
Coney Island
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surface form:
Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
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| politicalActivity |
anti-war activism
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civil rights advocacy ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Washington, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Washington, Massachusetts, United States
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| spouse | Jackie Hyde ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1960s–2020s ⓘ |
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: Arlo Guthrie Description of subject: Arlo Guthrie is an American folk singer-songwriter and storyteller best known for his satirical talking blues song "Alice's Restaurant" and for continuing the musical and political legacy of his father, Woody Guthrie.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Renaldo and Clara
this entity surface form:
Arlo Davy Guthrie
subject surface form:
Oh Shenandoah
this entity surface form:
Arlo Guthrie (character)