Jim McCrary
E374813
Jim McCrary was an American photographer and album cover designer best known for creating iconic covers for major artists in the 1960s and 1970s, including Carole King’s "Tapestry."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jim McCrary canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3651403 — 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: Jim McCrary Context triple: [Tapestry, coverArtDesigner, Jim McCrary]
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A.
Tim McDermott
Tim McDermott is a sports executive known for his leadership role with Major League Soccer’s Philadelphia Union.
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B.
Jerry Douglas
Jerry Douglas is an acclaimed American dobro and lap steel guitar player renowned for his innovative contributions to bluegrass and country music.
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C.
Waddy Butler Wood
Waddy Butler Wood was an American architect known for his influential early 20th-century designs in Washington, D.C., including notable residential and public buildings.
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D.
Sam O'Steen
Sam O'Steen was an acclaimed American film editor best known for his work on influential films such as "The Graduate," "Chinatown," and "Cool Hand Luke."
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E.
Sonny Terry
Sonny Terry was an influential American blues and folk harmonica player known for his energetic, whooping style and collaborations with guitarist Brownie McGhee.
- 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: Jim McCrary Target entity description: Jim McCrary was an American photographer and album cover designer best known for creating iconic covers for major artists in the 1960s and 1970s, including Carole King’s "Tapestry."
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A.
Tim McDermott
Tim McDermott is a sports executive known for his leadership role with Major League Soccer’s Philadelphia Union.
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B.
Jerry Douglas
Jerry Douglas is an acclaimed American dobro and lap steel guitar player renowned for his innovative contributions to bluegrass and country music.
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C.
Waddy Butler Wood
Waddy Butler Wood was an American architect known for his influential early 20th-century designs in Washington, D.C., including notable residential and public buildings.
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D.
Sam O'Steen
Sam O'Steen was an acclaimed American film editor best known for his work on influential films such as "The Graduate," "Chinatown," and "Cool Hand Luke."
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E.
Sonny Terry
Sonny Terry was an influential American blues and folk harmonica player known for his energetic, whooping style and collaborations with guitarist Brownie McGhee.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
album cover designer
ⓘ
human ⓘ photographer ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1960s
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1970s ⓘ |
| basedIn | United States music industry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
album cover design
ⓘ
music photography ⓘ |
| genre |
pop music photography
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rock music photography ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| influencedDomain | visual identity of popular music albums ⓘ |
| knownFor |
album cover photography for Carole King
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album cover photography for major American recording artists ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
creating iconic album covers for major recording artists
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photographing Carole King for the Tapestry album cover ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Tapestry (1971 studio album by Carole King)
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surface form:
Tapestry (Carole King album) – album cover
iconic album cover photographs for 1960s artists ⓘ iconic album cover photographs for 1970s artists ⓘ |
| occupation |
album cover designer
ⓘ
photographer ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Tapestry (1971 studio album by Carole King)
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surface form:
Tapestry (Carole King album)
album covers for major artists in the 1960s ⓘ album covers for major artists in the 1970s ⓘ |
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: Jim McCrary Description of subject: Jim McCrary was an American photographer and album cover designer best known for creating iconic covers for major artists in the 1960s and 1970s, including Carole King’s "Tapestry."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tapestry
subject surface form:
Tapestry