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
Kristen Anderson-Lopez
Dan Wilson
Ulf Lundell singer-songwriter
Laleh Pourkarim singer-songwriter
Zara Larsson (studies, not completed degree)
surface form: Zara Larsson
Rick Parashar
Leigh Harline
Patrick Watson singer-songwriter
Neville O'Riley Livingston
Zülfü Livaneli singer-songwriter
Winston Rodney
Swift
surface form: Taylor Swift
singer-songwriter
Alasdair Roberts singer-songwriter
Edward Theodore Riley
Stig Anderson lyricist
Sara Watkins singer-songwriter
Sean Watkins
Daryl Simmons
James Poyser
Janet Sewell
Vincent Brantley
Charles Strouse
Matt Morris singer-songwriter
William Cowper hymn writer
Sam Bush
Antonio Marquis Reid
Rick Darnell
Kid Rock
Duncan Reid
Dottie West
Barry Gibb
Bryan-Michael Cox
Magnus Fiennes
Michael Bivins
Larry Blackmon
Martin Mull
Kamal Hasan
surface form: Kamal Haasan
lyricist
Noël Coward
Jerry Douglas
Blind Lemon Jefferson singer-songwriter
James Dewitt Yancey
Roy Hawkins
Bert Keyes
Dorothy Blanchard Jacobson
surface form: Oscar Hammerstein II
lyricist
Zimmerman
surface form: Bob Dylan
singer-songwriter
Jimi Hendrix
OneRepublic
surface form: Ryan Tedder
singer-songwriter
Cirkut
T-Minus
DJ Camper