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
Phil Collins, Christina Aguilera, Enrique Iglesias, Toni Braxton
surface form: Phil Collins
Thomas
surface form: Thomas Richard Paxton
singer-songwriter
Eddie Cochran
Simon Raymonde
Lisa Kron lyricist
Charlie Daniels singer-songwriter
Matthew Sklar Broadway composer
Stuart Braithwaite
Jim Brickman
Barbara Higbie singer-songwriter
Carter Beauford
LeRoi Moore
Tim Reynolds
Quinnes Parker
Paul Giovanni
Klaus Meine
Tony Hadley
Steve Norman
Harley Moon Kemp singer-songwriter
Fran Walsh lyricist
Matt Shafer
surface form: Uncle Kracker
singer-songwriter
Dobie Gray
Bobby Brown
Reginald Noble
Mariah Carey
John Entwistle
Katharine Lee Bates
Michael Hedges
Fetty Wap
Svyatoslav Vakarchuk
Ringo Starr
Chris Shiflett
Merle Travis singer-songwriter
John Parish
Elliott Charles Adnopoz
Joscelyn Eve Stoker
Jimmy Fortune singer-songwriter
Cornelis Vreeswijk singer-songwriter
Mike E. Clark
John Densmore
Emily Strayer
Domenico Modugno singer-songwriter
Noel Paul Stookey singer-songwriter
Rusty Egan
Glen H. Taylor
Todd Rittmann
Lew DeWitt
Ivy Queen
Robby Krieger
Alex Ebert singer-songwriter