Jimmy Webb
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Jimmy Webb is an American songwriter and composer renowned for crafting numerous pop and country standards, including classics like “Wichita Lineman,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” and “MacArthur Park.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jimmy Webb canonical | 22 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10911166 — 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: Jimmy Webb Context triple: [Highwayman (song), writer, Jimmy Webb]
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A.
Barry Mann
Barry Mann is an American songwriter and musician best known for his prolific Brill Building pop hits, often written with his wife and collaborator Cynthia Weil.
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B.
Thom Bell
Thom Bell was a pioneering American record producer, arranger, and songwriter, best known as a key architect of the lush, orchestral Philadelphia soul sound of the 1970s.
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C.
Mickey Newbury
Mickey Newbury was an influential American singer-songwriter known for his poetic, genre-blending country songs that were widely covered by other artists in the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
B.J. Thomas
B.J. Thomas was an American pop and country singer best known for hits like "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" and "Hooked on a Feeling."
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E.
Don McLean
Don McLean is an American singer-songwriter best known for his iconic 1971 folk-rock ballad "American Pie."
- 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: Jimmy Webb Target entity description: Jimmy Webb is an American songwriter and composer renowned for crafting numerous pop and country standards, including classics like “Wichita Lineman,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” and “MacArthur Park.”
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A.
Barry Mann
Barry Mann is an American songwriter and musician best known for his prolific Brill Building pop hits, often written with his wife and collaborator Cynthia Weil.
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B.
Thom Bell
Thom Bell was a pioneering American record producer, arranger, and songwriter, best known as a key architect of the lush, orchestral Philadelphia soul sound of the 1970s.
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C.
Mickey Newbury
Mickey Newbury was an influential American singer-songwriter known for his poetic, genre-blending country songs that were widely covered by other artists in the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
B.J. Thomas
B.J. Thomas was an American pop and country singer best known for hits like "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" and "Hooked on a Feeling."
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E.
Don McLean
Don McLean is an American singer-songwriter best known for his iconic 1971 folk-rock ballad "American Pie."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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human ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| birthName | James Layne Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-08-15 ⓘ |
| familyName | Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adult contemporary music
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country music ⓘ pop music ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| instrument |
piano
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vocals ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Songwriters Hall of Fame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | American popular music ⓘ |
| name | Jimmy Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Grammy Award
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Songwriters Hall of Fame induction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
By the Time I Get to Phoenix
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Galveston NERFINISHED ⓘ MacArthur Park NERFINISHED ⓘ The Highwayman NERFINISHED ⓘ The Moon’s a Harsh Mistress NERFINISHED ⓘ Up, Up and Away NERFINISHED ⓘ Wichita Lineman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Elk City, Oklahoma, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| wroteForArtist |
Art Garfunkel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glen Campbell NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Cash NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Rivers NERFINISHED ⓘ Kris Kristofferson NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ The 5th Dimension NERFINISHED ⓘ Waylon Jennings NERFINISHED ⓘ Willie Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteSong |
All I Know
NERFINISHED
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By the Time I Get to Phoenix NERFINISHED ⓘ Didn’t We NERFINISHED ⓘ Galveston NERFINISHED ⓘ MacArthur Park NERFINISHED ⓘ The Highwayman NERFINISHED ⓘ The Moon’s a Harsh Mistress NERFINISHED ⓘ Up, Up and Away NERFINISHED ⓘ Where’s the Playground Susie NERFINISHED ⓘ Wichita Lineman 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: Jimmy Webb Description of subject: Jimmy Webb is an American songwriter and composer renowned for crafting numerous pop and country standards, including classics like “Wichita Lineman,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” and “MacArthur Park.”
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
MacArthur Park
subject surface form:
MacArthur Park
subject surface form:
MacArthur Park
subject surface form:
MacArthur Park (Richard Harris recording)
subject surface form:
MacArthur Park
subject surface form:
MacArthur Park
subject surface form:
MacArthur Park