Bob Dylan

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actor cultural icon human musician poet record producer singer-songwriter

Bob Dylan is an influential American singer-songwriter and cultural icon whose poetic lyrics and groundbreaking work in popular music earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Observed surface forms (7)

Surface form	Occurrences
Robert Allen Zimmerman	3
Dylan	2
Bob Dylan discography	1
Bob Dylan – vocals, guitar, harmonica	1
Robert Zimmerman	1
Samuel Dylan	1
references Bob Dylan	1

Statements (90)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	actor ⓘ cultural icon ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ poet ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ
activeYearsStart	1961 ⓘ
awardReceived	Academy Award for Best Original Song ⓘ Golden Globe Award ⓘ Grammy Award ⓘ National Medal of Arts ⓘ Nobel Prize in Literature ⓘ Presidential Medal of Freedom ⓘ Pulitzer Prize Special Citation and Award ⓘ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ⓘ Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ⓘ
birthName	Bob Dylan self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Robert Allen Zimmerman
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1941-05-24 ⓘ
educatedAt	University of Minnesota ⓘ surface form: University of Minnesota (attended, did not graduate)
familyName	Zimmerman ⓘ
fieldOfWork	literature ⓘ popular music ⓘ songwriting ⓘ
genre	blues ⓘ country music ⓘ folk music ⓘ folk rock ⓘ rock music ⓘ roots rock ⓘ
givenName	Robert ⓘ
influenced	Bruce Springsteen ⓘ Jimi Hendrix ⓘ Joan Baez ⓘ Johnny Cash ⓘ Leonard Cohen ⓘ Neil Young ⓘ The Beatles ⓘ Tom Petty ⓘ
instrument	guitar ⓘ harmonica ⓘ piano ⓘ vocals ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
memberOf	Bob Dylan and The Band ⓘ Traveling Wilburys ⓘ
movement	1960s counterculture ⓘ American folk music revival ⓘ
name	Bob Dylan self-link ⓘ
nominatedFor	Nobel Prize in Literature ⓘ
notableAchievement	redefined the boundaries of popular songwriting with poetic lyrics ⓘ
notableEvent	electrified performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival ⓘ
notablePublication	Tarantula ⓘ
notableSong	All Along the Watchtower ⓘ Hurricane ⓘ Knockin' on Heaven's Door ⓘ Mr. Tambourine Man ⓘ Subterranean Homesick Blues ⓘ Tangled Up in Blue ⓘ
notableTour	Never Ending Tour ⓘ
notableWork	Blonde on Blonde ⓘ Blood on the Tracks ⓘ Blowin' in the Wind ⓘ Bringing It All Back Home ⓘ Chronicles: Volume One ⓘ Highway 61 Revisited ⓘ Like a Rolling Stone ⓘ Modern Times ⓘ Nashville Skyline ⓘ The Times They Are a-Changin' ⓘ Time Out of Mind ⓘ
occupation	author ⓘ composer ⓘ musician ⓘ poet ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ visual artist ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Duluth ⓘ surface form: Duluth, Minnesota, United States
recordLabel	Asylum Records ⓘ Columbia Records ⓘ
religion	Christianity ⓘ Judaism ⓘ
residence	New York City ⓘ
spouse	Carolyn Dennis ⓘ Sara Dylan ⓘ
stageName	Bob Dylan self-link ⓘ
subjectOf	documentary 'Dont Look Back' ⓘ documentary 'No Direction Home' ⓘ film 'I'm Not There' ⓘ

Referenced by (177)

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

Time Out of Mind → lyricist → Bob Dylan ⓘ

1974 Bob Dylan and The Band Tour → mainArtist → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Blonde on Blonde → mainInstrumentalist → Bob Dylan ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bob Dylan – vocals, guitar, harmonica

Never Ending Tour → mainPerformer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Time Out of Mind → mainPerformer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

documentary 'Dont Look Back' → mainSubject → Bob Dylan ⓘ

subject surface form: Dont Look Back

documentary 'No Direction Home' → mainSubject → Bob Dylan ⓘ

subject surface form: No Direction Home

Traveling Wilburys → member → Bob Dylan ⓘ

film 'I'm Not There' → musicBy → Bob Dylan ⓘ

subject surface form: I'm Not There

Bob Dylan → name → Bob Dylan self-link ⓘ

Hibbing High School → notableAlumnus → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Columbia Records → notableArtist → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame → notableInductee → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Nobel Prize in Literature → notableLaureate → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Pulitzer Prize winners → notableMemberExample → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Monterey Folk Festival → notablePerformer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

This Land Is Your Land → notablePerformer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Uline Arena → notablePerformer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award → notableRecipient → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Blonde on Blonde → notableWorkOf → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Blood on the Tracks → notableWorkOf → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Time Out of Mind → notableWorkOf → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Parenthood (TV series) → openingThemePerformer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

subject surface form: Parenthood

All Along the Watchtower → originalArtist → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Use Your Illusion II → originalArtistOfCoveredSong → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Mr. Tambourine Man → originallyRecordedBy → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Modern Times → partOf → Bob Dylan ⓘ

this entity surface form: Bob Dylan discography

Suze Rotolo → partner → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Blowin' in the Wind → performedBy → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Rollin' and Tumblin' → performedBy → Bob Dylan ⓘ

All Along the Watchtower → performer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Blonde on Blonde → performer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Blood on the Tracks → performer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Bringing It All Back Home → performer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Desire → performer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Highway 61 Revisited → performer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Hurricane → performer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

subject surface form: Hurricane (Bob Dylan song)

Knockin' on Heaven's Door → performer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Like a Rolling Stone → performer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Modern Times → performer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Mr. Tambourine Man → performer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Nashville Skyline → performer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Subterranean Homesick Blues → performer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Tangled Up in Blue → performer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

The Times They Are a-Changin' → performer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Time Out of Mind → performer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Blood on the Tracks → producer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Knockin' on Heaven's Door → producer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Modern Times → producer → Bob Dylan ⓘ

Tangled Up in Blue → producer → Bob Dylan ⓘ