Norman Blake
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Norman Blake is an American acoustic guitarist and songwriter renowned for his influential work in bluegrass, folk, and Americana music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Norman Blake canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4372675 — 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: Norman Blake Context triple: [Doc Watson, influenced, Norman Blake]
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A.
Norman Gay
Norman Gay is a film editor best known for his work on the classic horror movie "The Exorcist."
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B.
Norman Puckle
Norman Puckle is the bumbling yet well-meaning protagonist of the 1935 British comedy film "The Bulldog Breed."
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C.
Norman Wright
Norman Wright was a film professional who worked as a sequence director on Disney’s classic 1942 animated feature "Bambi."
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D.
Norman Hewson
Norman Hewson is the brother of U2's lead singer Bono and a member of the Hewson family from Dublin, Ireland.
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E.
Norman Marsh
Norman Marsh was a British legal scholar and human rights advocate best known for helping to establish the International Commission of Jurists, a prominent global organization dedicated to the rule of law and the protection of human rights.
- 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: Norman Blake Target entity description: Norman Blake is an American acoustic guitarist and songwriter renowned for his influential work in bluegrass, folk, and Americana music.
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A.
Norman Gay
Norman Gay is a film editor best known for his work on the classic horror movie "The Exorcist."
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B.
Norman Puckle
Norman Puckle is the bumbling yet well-meaning protagonist of the 1935 British comedy film "The Bulldog Breed."
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C.
Norman Wright
Norman Wright was a film professional who worked as a sequence director on Disney’s classic 1942 animated feature "Bambi."
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D.
Norman Hewson
Norman Hewson is the brother of U2's lead singer Bono and a member of the Hewson family from Dublin, Ireland.
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E.
Norman Marsh
Norman Marsh was a British legal scholar and human rights advocate best known for helping to establish the International Commission of Jurists, a prominent global organization dedicated to the rule of law and the protection of human rights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American musician
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guitarist ⓘ human ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century music
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21st-century music ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Bob Dylan
NERFINISHED
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John Hartford NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Cash NERFINISHED ⓘ Kris Kristofferson NERFINISHED ⓘ Nancy Blake NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Rice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Bob Dylan
NERFINISHED
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John Hartford NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Cash NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Blake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Americana music
NERFINISHED
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bluegrass music ⓘ folk music ⓘ |
| genre |
Americana
ⓘ
bluegrass ⓘ folk ⓘ |
| givenName | Norman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
dobro
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guitar ⓘ mandolin ⓘ |
| name | Norman Blake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
flatpicking guitar style
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traditionalist approach to acoustic music ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Chattanooga Sugar Babe
NERFINISHED
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Directions NERFINISHED ⓘ Green Light on the Southern NERFINISHED ⓘ Home in Sulphur Springs NERFINISHED ⓘ Lighthouse on the Shore NERFINISHED ⓘ Natasha’s Waltz NERFINISHED ⓘ Rising Fawn String Ensemble NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fields of November NERFINISHED ⓘ While Passing Along This Way NERFINISHED ⓘ Whiskey Before Breakfast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
acoustic guitarist
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songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Chattanooga, Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Flying Fish Records
NERFINISHED
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Rounder Records NERFINISHED ⓘ Takoma Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Nancy Blake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Norman Blake Description of subject: Norman Blake is an American acoustic guitarist and songwriter renowned for his influential work in bluegrass, folk, and Americana music.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.