Guy Clark
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Guy Clark was an influential American singer-songwriter known for his richly detailed storytelling and major impact on the Texas and Americana country music scenes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Guy Clark canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8336316 — 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: Guy Clark Context triple: [Steve Earle, associatedAct, Guy Clark]
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A.
Jim Lauderdale
Jim Lauderdale is an American country and Americana singer-songwriter known for his prolific solo work and influential collaborations with artists like George Strait, Ralph Stanley, and Elvis Costello.
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B.
John Hiatt
John Hiatt is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his roots-rock, Americana, and country-influenced songs that have been widely covered by other artists.
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C.
Robert Earl Keen
Robert Earl Keen is an American singer-songwriter known for his influential contributions to Texas country and Americana music.
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D.
Steve Earle
Steve Earle is an American singer-songwriter and actor known for his influential blend of rock, country, and folk music and his politically charged, narrative-driven songwriting.
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E.
Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell is an American country singer-songwriter and producer known for his influential role in the Americana and country-rock scenes, including his work with Emmylou Harris and a string of critically acclaimed solo albums.
- 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: Guy Clark Target entity description: Guy Clark was an influential American singer-songwriter known for his richly detailed storytelling and major impact on the Texas and Americana country music scenes.
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A.
Jim Lauderdale
Jim Lauderdale is an American country and Americana singer-songwriter known for his prolific solo work and influential collaborations with artists like George Strait, Ralph Stanley, and Elvis Costello.
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B.
John Hiatt
John Hiatt is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his roots-rock, Americana, and country-influenced songs that have been widely covered by other artists.
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C.
Robert Earl Keen
Robert Earl Keen is an American singer-songwriter known for his influential contributions to Texas country and Americana music.
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D.
Steve Earle
Steve Earle is an American singer-songwriter and actor known for his influential blend of rock, country, and folk music and his politically charged, narrative-driven songwriting.
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E.
Rodney Crowell
Rodney Crowell is an American country singer-songwriter and producer known for his influential role in the Americana and country-rock scenes, including his work with Emmylou Harris and a string of critically acclaimed solo albums.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Americana musician
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country musician ⓘ human ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Grammy Award for Best Folk Album NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Guy Charles Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | lymphoma ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Rodney Crowell
NERFINISHED
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Townes Van Zandt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1941-11-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016-05-17 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
songwriting
ⓘ
storytelling in music ⓘ |
| genre |
Americana
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country ⓘ folk ⓘ |
| influenced |
Americana singer-songwriters
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Lyle Lovett NERFINISHED ⓘ Rodney Crowell NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Earle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | guitar ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
Americana music
NERFINISHED
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Outlaw country NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas country NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Guy Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAlbum |
Better Days
NERFINISHED
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Boats to Build NERFINISHED ⓘ Dublin Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ Old No. 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas Cookin' NERFINISHED ⓘ Workbench Songs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Desperados Waiting for a Train
NERFINISHED
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Dublin Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ L.A. Freeway NERFINISHED ⓘ Let Him Roll NERFINISHED ⓘ Stuff That Works NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas 1947 NERFINISHED ⓘ The Randall Knife NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Monahans, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Nashville, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Dualtone Records
NERFINISHED
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RCA Records ⓘ Sugar Hill Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Warner Bros. Records ⓘ |
| residence | Nashville, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Susanna Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workAwarded | My Favorite Picture of You NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Guy Clark Description of subject: Guy Clark was an influential American singer-songwriter known for his richly detailed storytelling and major impact on the Texas and Americana country music scenes.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Outlaw Country