Gilbert Vandine Houston

E774697

American folk musician folk singer guitarist human singer-songwriter

Gilbert Vandine Houston, better known as Cisco Houston, was an American folk singer and guitarist closely associated with Woody Guthrie and the mid-20th-century American folk music revival.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Gilbert Vandine Houston canonical	1

Statements (38)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American folk musician ⓘ folk singer ⓘ guitarist ⓘ human ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ
activeIn	American folk scene ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ
artisticPeriod	mid-20th century ⓘ
associatedWith	American folk music revival NERFINISHED ⓘ Woody Guthrie NERFINISHED ⓘ
citizenship	American ⓘ
collaboratedWith	Woody Guthrie NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
familyName	Houston NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	American traditional music ⓘ folk music performance ⓘ
genre	American folk ⓘ folk music ⓘ
givenName	Gilbert NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCulturalImpactOn	American folk music ⓘ
hasEthnicGroup	White American ⓘ
hasNotableAlias	Cisco Houston NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasNotableCharacteristic	closely associated with Woody Guthrie ⓘ key figure in mid-20th-century American folk music revival ⓘ
hasNotableRole	interpreter of American folk songs ⓘ
instrument	guitar ⓘ
languageOfPerformance	English ⓘ
movement	American folk revival ⓘ
notableFor	association with Woody Guthrie ⓘ participation in the mid-20th-century American folk music revival ⓘ performing traditional and contemporary folk songs ⓘ
occupation	folk musician ⓘ guitarist ⓘ singer ⓘ
partOf	20th-century American folk singers ⓘ American male folk singers ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
stageName	Cisco Houston 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: Gilbert Vandine Houston
Description of subject: Gilbert Vandine Houston, better known as Cisco Houston, was an American folk singer and guitarist closely associated with Woody Guthrie and the mid-20th-century American folk music revival.

Referenced by (1)

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

Cisco Houston → birthName → Gilbert Vandine Houston ⓘ