Michael W. Smith

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Michael W. Smith is an American contemporary Christian music singer, songwriter, and pianist known for his influential worship songs and crossover pop success.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Michael W. Smith canonical 1
Michael W. Smith Project 1

Statements (64)

Predicate Object
instanceOf contemporary Christian musician
human
pianist
recording artist
singer-songwriter
activeYearsStart 1980
associatedAct Amy Grant
Chris Tomlin
Steven Curtis Chapman
Third Day
birthDate 1957-10-07
birthPlace Kenova, West Virginia, United States
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
familyName Smith
fullName Michael Whitaker Smith
gender male
genre contemporary Christian music
pop music
soft rock
worship music
givenName Michael
hasRole author
worship leader
hasWebsite https://michaelwsmith.com
hasWonAward American Music Award
Dove Award
Grammy Award
hasWritten Friends Are Friends Forever
Old Enough to Know
This Is Your Time (book)
instrument keyboards
piano
vocals
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Gospel Music Hall of Fame
surface form: GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame
notableFor crossover pop success in the 1990s
influential worship songs
notableWork A New Hallelujah
Above All
Agnus Dei
Awesome God
Breathe
Change Your World
Christmas
Freedom
Friends
Go West Young Man
Healing Rain
Michael W. Smith self-linksurface differs
surface form: Michael W. Smith Project

Place in This World
Sovereign
The Big Picture
This Is Your Time
Worship
Worship Again
i 2 (EYE)
occupation composer
pianist
record producer
singer
songwriter
religion Christianity
residence Franklin, Tennessee
surface form: Franklin, Tennessee, United States
spouse Deborah Kay Davis

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: Michael W. Smith
Description of subject: Michael W. Smith is an American contemporary Christian music singer, songwriter, and pianist known for his influential worship songs and crossover pop success.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Christmas Time Is Here coveredBy Michael W. Smith
Michael W. Smith notableWork Michael W. Smith self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Michael W. Smith Project