Michael Whitaker Smith

E752313

composer human musician singer-songwriter

Michael Whitaker Smith is an American contemporary Christian musician, singer-songwriter, and composer known for his influential worship songs and crossover success in Christian and mainstream music.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Michael Whitaker Smith canonical	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	composer ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ
activeIn	music industry ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Michael W. Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ
awardReceived	GMA Dove Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Grammy Award ⓘ
birthDate	1957-10-07 ⓘ
birthPlace	Kenova, West Virginia, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
familyName	Smith ⓘ
fieldOfWork	Christian music ⓘ worship music ⓘ
genre	contemporary Christian music ⓘ pop ⓘ pop rock ⓘ soft rock ⓘ worship music ⓘ
givenName	Michael ⓘ
hasCrossoverSuccess	mainstream pop music charts ⓘ
instrument	keyboards ⓘ piano ⓘ vocals ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
name	Michael Whitaker Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFor	crossover success in Christian and mainstream music ⓘ influential worship songs ⓘ
notableWork	Above All NERFINISHED ⓘ Agnus Dei NERFINISHED ⓘ Awesome God NERFINISHED ⓘ Change Your World NERFINISHED ⓘ Friends NERFINISHED ⓘ Go West Young Man NERFINISHED ⓘ Healing Rain NERFINISHED ⓘ I Will Be Here for You NERFINISHED ⓘ Place in This World NERFINISHED ⓘ The Big Picture NERFINISHED ⓘ This Is Your Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Worship ⓘ Worship Again NERFINISHED ⓘ i 2 (EYE) NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	composer ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ
religion	Christianity ⓘ
residence	Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ
spouse	Deborah Kay Davis 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: Michael Whitaker Smith
Description of subject: Michael Whitaker Smith is an American contemporary Christian musician, singer-songwriter, and composer known for his influential worship songs and crossover success in Christian and mainstream music.

Referenced by (1)

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

Michael W. Smith → fullName → Michael Whitaker Smith ⓘ