Mickey Newbury
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Mickey Newbury was an influential American singer-songwriter known for his poetic, genre-blending country songs that were widely covered by other artists in the 1960s and 1970s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mickey Newbury canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4263402 — 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: Mickey Newbury Context triple: [Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In), composer, Mickey Newbury]
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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.
Mickey Raphael
Mickey Raphael is an American harmonica player best known for his long-time collaboration with country music legend Willie Nelson.
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C.
Jody Kristofferson
Jody Kristofferson is an American professional wrestler and the son of singer-songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson.
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D.
Eyvind Earle
Eyvind Earle was an American artist and illustrator best known for his distinctive stylized backgrounds and visual design work for Walt Disney, particularly in mid-20th-century animated films.
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E.
John Prine
John Prine was an influential American singer-songwriter known for his witty, poignant folk and country songs that explored everyday life and social issues.
- 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: Mickey Newbury Target entity description: Mickey Newbury was an influential American singer-songwriter known for his poetic, genre-blending country songs that were widely covered by other artists in the 1960s and 1970s.
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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.
Mickey Raphael
Mickey Raphael is an American harmonica player best known for his long-time collaboration with country music legend Willie Nelson.
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C.
Jody Kristofferson
Jody Kristofferson is an American professional wrestler and the son of singer-songwriter and actor Kris Kristofferson.
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D.
Eyvind Earle
Eyvind Earle was an American artist and illustrator best known for his distinctive stylized backgrounds and visual design work for Walt Disney, particularly in mid-20th-century animated films.
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E.
John Prine
John Prine was an influential American singer-songwriter known for his witty, poignant folk and country songs that explored everyday life and social issues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
country musician
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human ⓘ recording artist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEndYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartYear | 1960 ⓘ |
| birthName | Milton Sims Newbury Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | lung disease ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1940-05-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2002-09-29 ⓘ |
| familyName | Newbury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
country music
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folk ⓘ pop ⓘ psychedelic country ⓘ |
| givenName | Milton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inductedInto | Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Guy Clark
NERFINISHED
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Kenny Rogers NERFINISHED ⓘ Kris Kristofferson NERFINISHED ⓘ Townes Van Zandt NERFINISHED ⓘ Waylon Jennings NERFINISHED ⓘ Willie Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | outlaw country ⓘ |
| name | Mickey Newbury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| notableAlbum | Live at Montezuma Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
An American Trilogy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frisco Mabel Joy NERFINISHED ⓘ Heaven Help the Child NERFINISHED ⓘ I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) NERFINISHED ⓘ Looks Like Rain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Houston, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Springfield, Oregon, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Elektra Records
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Mercury Records ⓘ RCA Records ⓘ |
| residence | Nashville, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| songCoveredBy |
Elvis Presley
NERFINISHED
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Jerry Lee Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Baez NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenny Rogers and The First Edition NERFINISHED ⓘ Roy Orbison NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Susan Newbury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
genre-blending arrangements
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melancholic themes ⓘ poetic lyrics ⓘ |
| wroteSong |
An American Trilogy
NERFINISHED
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Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings NERFINISHED ⓘ Heaven Help the Child NERFINISHED ⓘ She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye NERFINISHED ⓘ Sweet Memories NERFINISHED ⓘ Time Is a Thief NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Mickey Newbury Description of subject: Mickey Newbury was an influential American singer-songwriter known for his poetic, genre-blending country songs that were widely covered by other artists in the 1960s and 1970s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.