songwriter

C430
concept

A songwriter is a creative professional who composes lyrics and melodies to craft original songs for performance and recording.

All labels observed (27)

Label Occurrences
songwriter canonical 5,665
singer-songwriter 1,739
lyricist 402

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: songwriter
Generated description
A songwriter is a creative professional who composes lyrics and melodies to craft original songs for performance and recording.

Instances (7,632)

Instance Via concept surface
Elizabeth Swados lyricist
Stephen Trask
Paul Stacey
Sam Hunt singer-songwriter
Craig Doerge
Andy LaPlegua
Johan Carlsson
James Hillier Blount singer-songwriter
Grandmaster Flash
Yoko Kanno
Ryan Ogren
Bryan Kienlen
Ron Wasserman
Bill Callery
Roddy Ricch
Paul Bruce Dickinson
Yoko Ono singer-songwriter
Chris Sligh
Matt Bachand
Steve Walsh
Rich Williams
Donna Summer
Lux Interior
Kid Congo Powers
Christina Aguilera
Joey de Leon
Michael V.
Aretha Franklin
John F. Shea lyricist
Paul Kennerley singer-songwriter
Bernard Yarrow
surface form: Peter Yarrow
singer-songwriter
Kerry Livgren
Fivio Foreign
Rube Bloom
Jeff Marx lyricist
Randolph Severn Parker III lyricist
Bobby Caldwell
Gail Davies
Joseph Alfred Souter singer-songwriter
Dewey Lindon
surface form: Dewey Lindon Oldham
Clarence Carter
Mac Davis singer-songwriter
Linda Womack
Bethany Yarrow
Cowboy Joe
surface form: Joe West
Saafir
King Tee
Hank
surface form: Hank Cochran
country music songwriter
Isola, Mississippi, United States
surface form: Hank Cochran
country music songwriter
Van Morrison singer-songwriter