Warren Zevon

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Warren Zevon was an American singer-songwriter known for his darkly witty lyrics, distinctive voice, and cult-classic songs like "Werewolves of London."

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Warren Zevon canonical 16
Warren William Zevon 1
Zevon 1

Statements (69)

Predicate Object
instanceOf human
recording artist
rock musician
singer-songwriter
album Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School
Excitable Boy
Life'll Kill Ya
Mr. Bad Example
Mutineer
My Ride's Here
Sentimental Hygiene
The Envoy
The Wind
Transverse City
Warren Zevon self-link
associatedAct Bruce Springsteen
David Letterman
Eagles
Jackson Browne
Linda Ronstadt
R.E.M.
awardReceived Grammy Award for Best Folk Album
surface form: Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album
burialPlace Los Angeles, California, United States of America
surface form: Los Angeles, California, United States
causeOfDeath pleural mesothelioma
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1947-01-24
dateOfDeath 2003-09-07
ethnicGroup Ukrainian American descent
familyName Warren Zevon self-linksurface differs
surface form: Zevon
finalAlbum The Wind
finalSong Keep Me in Your Heart
fullName Warren Zevon self-linksurface differs
surface form: Warren William Zevon
genre folk rock
rock
roots rock
singer-songwriter music
givenName Warren
hasChild Ariel Zevon
Jordan Zevon
influenced alternative rock artists
singer-songwriters
instrument guitar
piano
vocals
knownFor cult following
darkly witty lyrics
satirical songwriting
languageOfWorkOrName English
nominatedFor Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction
surface form: induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
notableAppearance frequent guest on Late Show with David Letterman
notableWork Desperados Under the Eaves
Excitable Boy
Hasten Down the Wind
Keep Me in Your Heart
Lawyers, Guns and Money
Mohammed's Radio
Poor Poor Pitiful Me
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
Werewolves of London
occupation composer
musician
record producer
singer-songwriter
placeOfBirth Chicago, Illinois, United States
placeOfDeath Los Angeles, California, United States of America
surface form: Los Angeles, California, United States
posthumousRecognition Grammy Awards for The Wind
residence California, United States
Los Angeles
surface form: Los Angeles, California, United States
spouse Crystal Zevon

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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: Warren Zevon
Description of subject: Warren Zevon was an American singer-songwriter known for his darkly witty lyrics, distinctive voice, and cult-classic songs like "Werewolves of London."

Referenced by (18)

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

Asylum Records signedArtist Warren Zevon
Jackson Browne associatedAct Warren Zevon
All Summer Long writer Warren Zevon
Warren Zevon fullName Warren Zevon self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Warren William Zevon
Warren Zevon familyName Warren Zevon self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Zevon
Warren Zevon album Warren Zevon self-link
Poor Poor Pitiful Me writer Warren Zevon
Poor Poor Pitiful Me composer Warren Zevon
Poor Poor Pitiful Me lyricsBy Warren Zevon
Poor Poor Pitiful Me recordedBy Warren Zevon
Raspberry Beret hasCoverVersionBy Warren Zevon
Clyde Jackson Browne associatedAct Warren Zevon
David Lindley collaboratedWith Warren Zevon
Stan Lynch associatedAct Warren Zevon