Tom Waits
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Tom Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor known for his gravelly voice, experimental songwriting, and dark, theatrical storytelling.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Waits canonical | 40 |
| Thomas Alan Waits | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T835657 — 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: Tom Waits Context triple: [Asylum Records, signedArtist, Tom Waits]
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A.
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Bonnie "Prince" Billy is the stage name of American singer-songwriter and actor Will Oldham, known for his introspective, genre-blurring folk and alt-country music.
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B.
Bill Callahan
Bill Callahan is an American singer-songwriter known for his baritone voice, literate lyrics, and influential work in indie and lo-fi music, both solo and under the moniker Smog.
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C.
Steven Van Zandt
Steven Van Zandt is an American musician, songwriter, producer, and actor best known as a longtime guitarist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and for his role as Silvio Dante on the TV series The Sopranos.
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D.
Ry Cooder
Ry Cooder is an American guitarist, composer, and producer renowned for his slide guitar work and for exploring and popularizing diverse roots and world music traditions.
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E.
Kris Kristofferson
Kris Kristofferson is an American country singer-songwriter and actor known for penning classics like "Me and Bobby McGee" and for his influential role in the outlaw country movement.
- 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: Tom Waits Target entity description: Tom Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor known for his gravelly voice, experimental songwriting, and dark, theatrical storytelling.
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A.
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Bonnie "Prince" Billy is the stage name of American singer-songwriter and actor Will Oldham, known for his introspective, genre-blurring folk and alt-country music.
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B.
Bill Callahan
Bill Callahan is an American singer-songwriter known for his baritone voice, literate lyrics, and influential work in indie and lo-fi music, both solo and under the moniker Smog.
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C.
Steven Van Zandt
Steven Van Zandt is an American musician, songwriter, producer, and actor best known as a longtime guitarist in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band and for his role as Silvio Dante on the TV series The Sopranos.
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D.
Ry Cooder
Ry Cooder is an American guitarist, composer, and producer renowned for his slide guitar work and for exploring and popularizing diverse roots and world music traditions.
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E.
Kris Kristofferson
Kris Kristofferson is an American country singer-songwriter and actor known for penning classics like "Me and Bobby McGee" and for his influential role in the outlaw country movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (77)
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: Tom Waits Description of subject: Tom Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor known for his gravelly voice, experimental songwriting, and dark, theatrical storytelling.
Referenced by (41)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Somewhere
this entity surface form:
Thomas Alan Waits
subject surface form:
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
subject surface form:
Oh Shenandoah