Ivor Cutler

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Ivor Cutler was a Scottish poet, songwriter, and eccentric performer known for his surreal, deadpan humor and distinctive harmonium-accompanied spoken-word pieces.

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Ivor Cutler canonical 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf performer
person
poet
radio personality
songwriter
appearedIn Magical Mystery Tour NERFINISHED
awardReceived Scotsman of the Year (1989) NERFINISHED
citizenship United Kingdom
collaboratedWith Neil Ardley NERFINISHED
Robert Wyatt NERFINISHED
The Beatles NERFINISHED
conflict World War II
surface form: Second World War
countryOfBirth Scotland
countryOfDeath England NERFINISHED
dateOfBirth 1923-01-15
dateOfDeath 2006-03-03
familyName Cutler NERFINISHED
fullName Ivor Cutler NERFINISHED
genre comedy
spoken word
surreal humor
givenName Ivor NERFINISHED
instrument harmonium
knownFor deadpan delivery
eccentric stage persona
harmonium-accompanied spoken word
surreal monologues
language English
laterality left-handed
nationality Scottish
notableWork A Wet Handle NERFINISHED
Dandruff NERFINISHED
Jammy Smears NERFINISHED
Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 2 NERFINISHED
Velvet Donkey NERFINISHED
occupation poet
radio performer
songwriter
teacher
performedOn BBC Radio 3 NERFINISHED
BBC Radio 4 NERFINISHED
John Peel show NERFINISHED
placeOfBirth Glasgow NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath London, England
surface form: London
religion Jewish
servedIn Royal Air Force NERFINISHED
style minimalist instrumentation
whimsical, darkly comic storytelling
taughtAt Inner London Education Authority schools NERFINISHED

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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.
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Subject: Ivor Cutler
Description of subject: Ivor Cutler was a Scottish poet, songwriter, and eccentric performer known for his surreal, deadpan humor and distinctive harmonium-accompanied spoken-word pieces.

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Magical Mystery Tour starring Ivor Cutler
subject surface form: Magical Mystery Tour (film)