Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance

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Grammy Award category music award

The Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance was a former Grammy category that honored outstanding vocal or instrumental folk music recordings.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance canonical	2
Grammy Award for Best Folk Recording	2

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2010504 — 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: Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance
Context triple: [Clouds, awarded, Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance]

A. Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album
The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album is a music industry honor recognizing outstanding albums in the contemporary folk and Americana genres.
B. Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album is a music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize excellence in albums featuring traditional pop vocal performances, often in the style of classic pop standards and vocal jazz.
C. Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album
The Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album is a prestigious music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in bluegrass music recording.
D. Grammy Award for Best World Music Album
The Grammy Award for Best World Music Album is a prestigious music industry honor recognizing outstanding albums that showcase traditional, contemporary, or cross-cultural sounds from around the globe.
E. Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals
The Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals was a former Grammy category honoring standout country music performances featuring vocal collaborations between multiple artists.
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: Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance
Target entity description: The Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance was a former Grammy category that honored outstanding vocal or instrumental folk music recordings.

A. Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album
The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album is a music industry honor recognizing outstanding albums in the contemporary folk and Americana genres.
B. Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album is a music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize excellence in albums featuring traditional pop vocal performances, often in the style of classic pop standards and vocal jazz.
C. Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album
The Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album is a prestigious music industry honor presented by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in bluegrass music recording.
D. Grammy Award for Best World Music Album
The Grammy Award for Best World Music Album is a prestigious music industry honor recognizing outstanding albums that showcase traditional, contemporary, or cross-cultural sounds from around the globe.
E. Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals
The Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals was a former Grammy category honoring standout country music performances featuring vocal collaborations between multiple artists.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (26)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Grammy Award category ⓘ music award ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Best Folk Performance ⓘ Best Performance – Folk ⓘ
awardCategoryType	genre-specific music category ⓘ
awardedFor	recorded works ⓘ
awardFor	folk music recordings ⓘ instrumental folk music recordings ⓘ vocal folk music recordings ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
firstAwarded	1960 ⓘ
genre	folk music ⓘ
hasAwardedDiscipline	music performance ⓘ recording arts ⓘ
hasLanguage	English ⓘ
inception	1960 ⓘ
lastAwarded	1967 ⓘ
medium	audio recording ⓘ
partOf	Grammy Award ⓘ surface form: Grammy Awards
presentedBy	Recording Academy ⓘ surface form: The Recording Academy
replacedBy	Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Grammy Award for Best Folk Recording
selectionCriteria	artistic achievement in folk music ⓘ outstanding folk music performance ⓘ overall excellence in folk music recording ⓘ technical proficiency in folk music recording ⓘ
status	defunct ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

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

Clouds → awarded → Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance ⓘ

Judy Collins → awardReceived → Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance ⓘ

Miriam Makeba → awardReceived → Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance ⓘ

this entity surface form: Grammy Award for Best Folk Recording

Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance → replacedBy → Grammy Award for Best Folk Performance self-linksurface differs ⓘ