Larry Gatlin
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Larry Gatlin is an American country music singer-songwriter best known as the lead of Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers, with numerous hits in the 1970s and 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Larry Gatlin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10789982 — 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: Larry Gatlin Context triple: [Dorothy Marie Marsh, associatedAct, Larry Gatlin]
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A.
Michael Martin Murphey
Michael Martin Murphey is an American singer-songwriter best known for his contributions to country and cowboy music, including hits like "Wildfire" and "Carolina in the Pines."
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B.
Jerry Jeff Walker
Jerry Jeff Walker was an American country singer-songwriter best known for his influential role in the outlaw country movement and for writing the classic song "Mr. Bojangles."
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C.
LeRoy Shelton
LeRoy Shelton is the criminal defendant whose case led to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Alabama v. Shelton, which held that a suspended sentence cannot be imposed without providing the defendant access to counsel.
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D.
Aaron Tippin
Aaron Tippin is an American country music singer-songwriter known for his patriotic themes and blue-collar anthems, particularly popular in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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E.
Don Gibson
Don Gibson was an influential American country music singer-songwriter known for classics like "Oh Lonesome Me" and "I Can't Stop Loving You."
- 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: Larry Gatlin Target entity description: Larry Gatlin is an American country music singer-songwriter best known as the lead of Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers, with numerous hits in the 1970s and 1980s.
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A.
Michael Martin Murphey
Michael Martin Murphey is an American singer-songwriter best known for his contributions to country and cowboy music, including hits like "Wildfire" and "Carolina in the Pines."
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B.
Jerry Jeff Walker
Jerry Jeff Walker was an American country singer-songwriter best known for his influential role in the outlaw country movement and for writing the classic song "Mr. Bojangles."
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C.
LeRoy Shelton
LeRoy Shelton is the criminal defendant whose case led to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Alabama v. Shelton, which held that a suspended sentence cannot be imposed without providing the defendant access to counsel.
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D.
Aaron Tippin
Aaron Tippin is an American country music singer-songwriter known for his patriotic themes and blue-collar anthems, particularly popular in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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E.
Don Gibson
Don Gibson was an influential American country music singer-songwriter known for classics like "Oh Lonesome Me" and "I Can't Stop Loving You."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
country singer
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gospel singer ⓘ human ⓘ recording artist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Dottie West
NERFINISHED
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Johnny Cash NERFINISHED ⓘ Kris Kristofferson NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gatlin Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | Broken Lady NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Larry Wayne Gatlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1948-05-02 ⓘ |
| familyName | Gatlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
country music
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songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
country music
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gospel music ⓘ |
| givenName | Larry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.larrygatlin.com/ ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Larry Gatlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
lead singer of Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers
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multiple Top 10 country hits in the 1970s and 1980s ⓘ |
| notableAward | Grammy Award for Best Country Song NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
All the Gold in California
NERFINISHED
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Broken Lady NERFINISHED ⓘ Houston (Means I'm One Day Closer to You) NERFINISHED ⓘ I Just Wish You Were Someone I Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Night Time Magic NERFINISHED ⓘ Statues Without Hearts NERFINISHED ⓘ Take Me to Your Lovin' Place NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Seminole, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Nashville, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Rudy Gatlin
NERFINISHED
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Steve Gatlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Janis Ross Gatlin 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: Larry Gatlin Description of subject: Larry Gatlin is an American country music singer-songwriter best known as the lead of Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers, with numerous hits in the 1970s and 1980s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.