Iron & Wine
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Iron & Wine is the stage name of American singer-songwriter Sam Beam, known for his intimate, folk-inspired music and hushed vocal style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Iron & Wine canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6101750 — 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: Iron & Wine Context triple: [Sub Pop, signed, Iron & Wine]
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A.
Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird is an American indie folk musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known for his virtuosic violin playing, distinctive whistling, and literate, genre-blending compositions.
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B.
M. Ward
M. Ward is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his indie folk sound and collaborations in projects like She & Him and Monsters of Folk.
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C.
Bon Iver
Bon Iver is an American indie folk band led by singer-songwriter Justin Vernon, known for its ethereal sound, emotive falsetto vocals, and critically acclaimed albums like "For Emma, Forever Ago" and "Bon Iver, Bon Iver."
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D.
Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart is an American-Venezuelan singer-songwriter and visual artist known for his influential role in the 2000s freak-folk movement and his eclectic, psychedelic folk sound.
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E.
Perfume Genius
Perfume Genius is the stage name of American musician Mike Hadreas, known for his emotionally raw, genre-blending art pop that explores themes of queerness, vulnerability, and identity.
- 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: Iron & Wine Target entity description: Iron & Wine is the stage name of American singer-songwriter Sam Beam, known for his intimate, folk-inspired music and hushed vocal style.
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A.
Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird is an American indie folk musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist known for his virtuosic violin playing, distinctive whistling, and literate, genre-blending compositions.
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B.
M. Ward
M. Ward is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his indie folk sound and collaborations in projects like She & Him and Monsters of Folk.
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C.
Bon Iver
Bon Iver is an American indie folk band led by singer-songwriter Justin Vernon, known for its ethereal sound, emotive falsetto vocals, and critically acclaimed albums like "For Emma, Forever Ago" and "Bon Iver, Bon Iver."
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D.
Devendra Banhart
Devendra Banhart is an American-Venezuelan singer-songwriter and visual artist known for his influential role in the 2000s freak-folk movement and his eclectic, psychedelic folk sound.
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E.
Perfume Genius
Perfume Genius is the stage name of American musician Mike Hadreas, known for his emotionally raw, genre-blending art pop that explores themes of queerness, vulnerability, and identity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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musical artist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ stage name ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | early 2000s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Ben Bridwell
ⓘ
Calexico ⓘ Jesca Hoop ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| dateOfBirth | 1974-07-26 ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | The Creek Drank the Cradle ⓘ |
| genre |
folk
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folk ⓘ folk rock ⓘ folk rock ⓘ indie folk ⓘ indie folk ⓘ |
| instrument |
banjo
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guitar ⓘ slide guitar ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| lyricalThemes |
everyday life
ⓘ
intimacy ⓘ relationships ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Beast Epic
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Ghost on Ghost ⓘ Kiss Each Other Clean ⓘ Our Endless Numbered Days ⓘ The Creek Drank the Cradle ⓘ The Shepherd's Dog ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| performer |
Iron & Wine
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Iron & Wine ⓘ Iron & Wine ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Chapin, South Carolina, United States
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linked to:
Chapin, South Carolina
|
| realName | Sam Beam ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Nonesuch Records
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Sub Pop ⓘ Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| stageName | Iron & Wine ⓘ |
| vocalStyle | hushed vocals ⓘ |
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: Iron & Wine Description of subject: Iron & Wine is the stage name of American singer-songwriter Sam Beam, known for his intimate, folk-inspired music and hushed vocal style.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Iron & Wine
subject linked to:
Iron & Wine
subject linked to:
Iron & Wine
subject linked to:
Iron & Wine
subject linked to:
Sub Pop (with Sleater-Kinney)