Woodrow
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Woodrow is the full given name of American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, a key figure in 20th-century protest music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Woodrow canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9057357 — 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: Woodrow Context triple: [Woody Guthrie, givenName, Woodrow]
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A.
Woodrow
Woodrow is a locality on Staten Island, New York City, known as a primarily residential neighborhood on the island’s South Shore.
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B.
Woodrow Anderson
Woodrow Anderson is a fictional character best known as the husband of Aunt Esther on the classic television sitcom "Sanford and Son."
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C.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States, known for his progressive reforms, trust-busting policies, and leadership in conservation and American imperial expansion.
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D.
Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode
Woodrow Wilson Woolwine "Woody" Strode was an American athlete and pioneering Black film and television actor known for his roles in Westerns and collaborations with director John Ford.
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E.
Woodrow Wilson Flowers Jr.
Woodrow Wilson Flowers Jr., better known as Woodie Flowers, was an American mechanical engineering professor at MIT renowned for pioneering hands-on engineering education and co-founding the FIRST Robotics Competition.
- 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: Woodrow Target entity description: Woodrow is the full given name of American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, a key figure in 20th-century protest music.
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A.
Woodrow
Woodrow is a locality on Staten Island, New York City, known as a primarily residential neighborhood on the island’s South Shore.
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B.
Woodrow Anderson
Woodrow Anderson is a fictional character best known as the husband of Aunt Esther on the classic television sitcom "Sanford and Son."
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C.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States, known for his progressive reforms, trust-busting policies, and leadership in conservation and American imperial expansion.
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D.
Woodrow Wilson Woolwine Strode
Woodrow Wilson Woolwine "Woody" Strode was an American athlete and pioneering Black film and television actor known for his roles in Westerns and collaborations with director John Ford.
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E.
Woodrow Wilson Flowers Jr.
Woodrow Wilson Flowers Jr., better known as Woodie Flowers, was an American mechanical engineering professor at MIT renowned for pioneering hands-on engineering education and co-founding the FIRST Robotics Competition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American folk singer-songwriter
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human ⓘ protest singer ⓘ |
| birthName | Woodrow Wilson Guthrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications of Huntington's disease ⓘ |
| child |
Arlo Guthrie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nora Guthrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1912-07-14 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1967-10-03 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American folk music
ⓘ
protest music ⓘ |
| genre |
folk music
ⓘ
protest music ⓘ |
| givenName | Woodrow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart | guitar inscribed with the phrase "This machine kills fascists" ⓘ |
| influenced |
Bob Dylan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bruce Springsteen NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Baez NERFINISHED ⓘ Pete Seeger NERFINISHED ⓘ Ramblin' Jack Elliott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
harmonica ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | American folk music revival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Woody Guthrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bound for Glory
NERFINISHED
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This Land Is Your Land NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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singer-songwriter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Okemah, Oklahoma, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| politicalAlignment | left-wing politics ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
ⓘ
Oklahoma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Anneke Van Kirk
NERFINISHED
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Marlene Dietrich Guthrie NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Jennings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOfWork |
anti-fascism
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social justice ⓘ working-class life in the United States ⓘ |
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: Woodrow Description of subject: Woodrow is the full given name of American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, a key figure in 20th-century protest music.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.