Max D. Barnes
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Max D. Barnes was an American country music songwriter known for penning numerous hits for major artists throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Max D. Barnes canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9237546 — 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: Max D. Barnes Context triple: [Look at Us, writer, Max D. Barnes]
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A.
Grant Bardsley
Grant Bardsley is a British voice actor best known for voicing the protagonist Taran in Disney’s animated film "The Black Cauldron."
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B.
Craig R. Baxley
Craig R. Baxley is an American film and television director and former stunt coordinator known for his work on high-octane action projects in the 1980s and 1990s.
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C.
James Barnes
James Barnes was a Union Army officer who served as a brigade and division commander in the V Corps during the American Civil War.
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D.
Jon A. McBride
Jon A. McBride is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G mission.
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E.
Gary D. Roach
Gary D. Roach is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the Clint Eastwood-directed drama "Invictus."
- 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: Max D. Barnes Target entity description: Max D. Barnes was an American country music songwriter known for penning numerous hits for major artists throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s.
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A.
Grant Bardsley
Grant Bardsley is a British voice actor best known for voicing the protagonist Taran in Disney’s animated film "The Black Cauldron."
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B.
Craig R. Baxley
Craig R. Baxley is an American film and television director and former stunt coordinator known for his work on high-octane action projects in the 1980s and 1990s.
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C.
James Barnes
James Barnes was a Union Army officer who served as a brigade and division commander in the V Corps during the American Civil War.
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D.
Jon A. McBride
Jon A. McBride is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy captain who piloted the Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41-G mission.
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E.
Gary D. Roach
Gary D. Roach is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the Clint Eastwood-directed drama "Invictus."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
songwriter ⓘ |
| activeInDecade |
1970s
ⓘ
1980s ⓘ 1990s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Country Music Association Award for Song of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedForWork |
Country Music Association Award for Song of the Year: "Chiseled in Stone"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Country Music Association Award for Song of the Year: "Look at Us" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Max Duane Barnes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| child | Max T. Barnes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Curly Putman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vern Gosdin NERFINISHED ⓘ Vince Gill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1935-07-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2004-01-11 ⓘ |
| genre | country music ⓘ |
| influencedGenre | Nashville country sound NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
writing hit country songs in the 1970s
ⓘ
writing hit country songs in the 1980s ⓘ writing hit country songs in the early 1990s ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| name | Max D. Barnes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Chiseled in Stone
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Don’t Take It Away NERFINISHED ⓘ If You Ever Have Forever in Mind NERFINISHED ⓘ Look at Us NERFINISHED ⓘ Way Down Deep NERFINISHED ⓘ Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
singer
ⓘ
songwriter ⓘ |
| parentOf | Max T. Barnes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hardy, Nebraska, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Nashville, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Capitol Records
ⓘ
United Artists Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Nashville, Tennessee, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteSongFor |
Conway Twitty
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
George Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Keith Whitley NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark Chesnutt NERFINISHED ⓘ Randy Travis NERFINISHED ⓘ Vern Gosdin NERFINISHED ⓘ Vince Gill 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: Max D. Barnes Description of subject: Max D. Barnes was an American country music songwriter known for penning numerous hits for major artists throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.