Al Stewart
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Al Stewart is a Scottish singer-songwriter best known for his folk-rock storytelling style and the 1976 hit song "Year of the Cat."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Al Stewart canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10012294 — 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: Al Stewart Context triple: [Gerry Conway (musician), associatedAct, Al Stewart]
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A.
Fred Stewart
Fred Stewart was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century film, television, and theater.
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B.
Pat Stevens
Pat Stevens is an American voice actress best known for voicing Velma Dinkley in the "Scooby-Doo" animated television series during the late 1970s.
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C.
Albert Starr
Albert Starr is a pioneering American cardiac surgeon best known for co-developing the first successful artificial heart valve and helping to found Edwards Lifesciences.
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D.
Glen Stewart
Glen Stewart is a small rural community located within the Township of South Dundas in eastern Ontario, Canada.
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E.
David Stewart
David Stewart was a medieval Scottish prince, the eldest son and heir of King Robert II of Scotland, who held the title of Earl of Strathearn.
- 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: Al Stewart Target entity description: Al Stewart is a Scottish singer-songwriter best known for his folk-rock storytelling style and the 1976 hit song "Year of the Cat."
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A.
Fred Stewart
Fred Stewart was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in mid-20th-century film, television, and theater.
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B.
Pat Stevens
Pat Stevens is an American voice actress best known for voicing Velma Dinkley in the "Scooby-Doo" animated television series during the late 1970s.
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C.
Albert Starr
Albert Starr is a pioneering American cardiac surgeon best known for co-developing the first successful artificial heart valve and helping to found Edwards Lifesciences.
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D.
Glen Stewart
Glen Stewart is a small rural community located within the Township of South Dundas in eastern Ontario, Canada.
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E.
David Stewart
David Stewart was a medieval Scottish prince, the eldest son and heir of King Robert II of Scotland, who held the title of Earl of Strathearn.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
folk rock musician
ⓘ
human ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| birthName | Alastair Ian Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1945-09-05 ⓘ |
| genre |
folk music
ⓘ
folk rock ⓘ pop rock ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| hasAlbum |
A Beach Full of Shells
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bedsitter Images NERFINISHED ⓘ Between the Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ Famous Last Words NERFINISHED ⓘ Last Days of the Century NERFINISHED ⓘ Love Chronicles NERFINISHED ⓘ Modern Times NERFINISHED ⓘ Orange NERFINISHED ⓘ Past, Present and Future NERFINISHED ⓘ Russians & Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ Sparks of Ancient Light NERFINISHED ⓘ Time Passages NERFINISHED ⓘ Uncorked NERFINISHED ⓘ Year of the Cat NERFINISHED ⓘ Zero She Flies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Bob Dylan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Beatles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
folk-rock songwriting
ⓘ
historically themed storytelling songs ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Al Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Nostradamus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
On the Border NERFINISHED ⓘ Time Passages NERFINISHED ⓘ Year of the Cat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
ⓘ
recording artist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Glasgow, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Arista Records
ⓘ
Janus Records NERFINISHED ⓘ RCA Records ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| website | https://www.alstewart.com/ ⓘ |
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: Al Stewart Description of subject: Al Stewart is a Scottish singer-songwriter best known for his folk-rock storytelling style and the 1976 hit song "Year of the Cat."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.