Patrick Sky
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Patrick Sky was an American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist associated with the 1960s folk revival, known for his politically charged and often satirical songs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick Sky canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4551413 — 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: Patrick Sky Context triple: [Dave Van Ronk, influenced, Patrick Sky]
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A.
Miles Archer
Miles Archer is a private detective and Sam Spade’s ill-fated partner in Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon."
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B.
Edwin Birdsong
Edwin Birdsong was an American funk and soul keyboardist, composer, and producer known for his experimental 1970s recordings and later influence on hip-hop and electronic music through extensive sampling of his work.
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C.
Tam O'Shaughnessy
Tam O'Shaughnessy is an American educator, former professional tennis player, and cofounder of Sally Ride Science who was the longtime partner of astronaut Sally Ride.
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D.
Wynton Kelly
Wynton Kelly was an influential American jazz pianist known for his swinging, blues-inflected style and his work with Miles Davis and other bebop and hard bop greats.
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E.
Ossian Sweet
Ossian Sweet was an African American physician whose 1925 trial for defending his Detroit home against a white mob became a landmark civil rights case.
- 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: Patrick Sky Target entity description: Patrick Sky was an American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist associated with the 1960s folk revival, known for his politically charged and often satirical songs.
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A.
Miles Archer
Miles Archer is a private detective and Sam Spade’s ill-fated partner in Dashiell Hammett’s novel "The Maltese Falcon."
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B.
Edwin Birdsong
Edwin Birdsong was an American funk and soul keyboardist, composer, and producer known for his experimental 1970s recordings and later influence on hip-hop and electronic music through extensive sampling of his work.
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C.
Tam O'Shaughnessy
Tam O'Shaughnessy is an American educator, former professional tennis player, and cofounder of Sally Ride Science who was the longtime partner of astronaut Sally Ride.
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D.
Wynton Kelly
Wynton Kelly was an influential American jazz pianist known for his swinging, blues-inflected style and his work with Miles Davis and other bebop and hard bop greats.
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E.
Ossian Sweet
Ossian Sweet was an African American physician whose 1925 trial for defending his Detroit home against a white mob became a landmark civil rights case.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
folk singer
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guitarist ⓘ human ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | Greenwich Village folk scene ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
Buffy Sainte-Marie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eric Andersen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | American Indian Movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn |
New York City
ⓘ
Rhode Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Patrick Lynch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Buffy Sainte-Marie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eric Andersen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1940-10-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-05-26 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Choctaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Lynch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
folk music
ⓘ
protest song ⓘ |
| givenName | Patrick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
vocals ⓘ |
| knownFor |
participation in the American folk revival
ⓘ
satirical protest songs ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| lyricsCharacteristic |
politically charged
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satirical ⓘ |
| movement | 1960s folk revival ⓘ |
| name | Patrick Sky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Patrick Sky (album)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Reality Is Bad Enough NERFINISHED ⓘ Songs That Made America Famous NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
folk musician
ⓘ
guitarist ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ uilleann pipe maker ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | College Station, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Ashville, North Carolina, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Vanguard Records
NERFINISHED
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Verve Forecast Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Cathy Larson Sky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteSong |
Fight for Liberation
NERFINISHED
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Many a Mile NERFINISHED ⓘ Separation Blues NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Input
Subject: Patrick Sky Description of subject: Patrick Sky was an American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist associated with the 1960s folk revival, known for his politically charged and often satirical songs.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.