Guthrie
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Guthrie is a surname most famously associated with American folk singer-songwriter and social activist Woody Guthrie.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Guthrie canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1921756 — 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: Guthrie Context triple: [Woody Guthrie, familyName, Guthrie]
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A.
Enid
Enid is a feminine given name of Welsh origin, traditionally associated with meanings like "soul" or "life."
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B.
Medora
Medora is the courageous and devoted heroine of Lord Byron’s narrative poem "The Corsair," often depicted as the pirate Conrad’s beloved.
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C.
Shattuck, Oklahoma
Shattuck, Oklahoma is a small town in northwestern Oklahoma known for its rural character and historic windmill park.
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D.
Hutchinson
Hutchinson is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
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E.
Ardmore
Ardmore is a suburban community in Pennsylvania's Main Line region, known for its residential neighborhoods, shopping district, and commuter access to Philadelphia.
- 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: Guthrie Target entity description: Guthrie is a surname most famously associated with American folk singer-songwriter and social activist Woody Guthrie.
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A.
Enid
Enid is a feminine given name of Welsh origin, traditionally associated with meanings like "soul" or "life."
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B.
Medora
Medora is the courageous and devoted heroine of Lord Byron’s narrative poem "The Corsair," often depicted as the pirate Conrad’s beloved.
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C.
Shattuck, Oklahoma
Shattuck, Oklahoma is a small town in northwestern Oklahoma known for its rural character and historic windmill park.
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D.
Hutchinson
Hutchinson is a common English surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
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E.
Ardmore
Ardmore is a suburban community in Pennsylvania's Main Line region, known for its residential neighborhoods, shopping district, and commuter access to Philadelphia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
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human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName |
Guthrie
self-linksurface differs
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Guthrie self-linksurface differs ⓘ Guthrie self-linksurface differs ⓘ Guthrie self-linksurface differs ⓘ Guthrie self-linksurface differs ⓘ Guthrie self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| genre | American folk music ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
A. B. Guthrie Jr.
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Arlo Guthrie ⓘ Janice Guthrie ⓘ Nora Guthrie ⓘ Trevor Guthrie ⓘ Tyrone Guthrie ⓘ Woody Guthrie ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Guthree
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Guthry ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
English
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Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| notableWork | This Land Is Your Land ⓘ |
| occupation |
archivist
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folk musician ⓘ music producer ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ singer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ social activist ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Australia
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Canada ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
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: Guthrie Description of subject: Guthrie is a surname most famously associated with American folk singer-songwriter and social activist Woody Guthrie.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Woody Guthrie
subject surface form:
Arlo Guthrie
subject surface form:
Nora Guthrie
subject surface form:
A. B. Guthrie Jr.
subject surface form:
Tyrone Guthrie
subject surface form:
Trevor Guthrie
subject surface form:
Woody Guthrie