Peter, Paul and Mary
E104840
Peter, Paul and Mary were a highly influential American folk music trio of the 1960s known for their harmonies, political activism, and popularizing songs like "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Puff, the Magic Dragon."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter, Paul and Mary canonical | 68 |
| Peter Paul and Mary | 1 |
| Peter, Paul and Mary albums | 1 |
| Peter, Paul and Mary discography | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T835136 — 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: Peter, Paul and Mary Context triple: [American folk music revival, hasNotableFigure, Peter, Paul and Mary]
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A.
The Weavers
The Weavers were a pioneering American folk music group whose popular recordings and politically tinged repertoire helped spark the mid-20th-century folk music revival.
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B.
Barry McGuire
Barry McGuire is an American singer-songwriter best known for his 1965 protest hit "Eve of Destruction" and his earlier folk work.
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C.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young was a highly influential American folk-rock supergroup known for its intricate vocal harmonies, politically charged songwriting, and major impact on 1960s–70s rock music.
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D.
The Byrds
The Byrds were an influential American rock band of the 1960s known for pioneering folk rock and psychedelic rock with their jangly guitar sound and rich vocal harmonies.
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E.
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel were a highly influential American folk-rock duo, best known for their harmonious vocals and classic songs like "The Sound of Silence" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water."
- 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: Peter, Paul and Mary Target entity description: Peter, Paul and Mary were a highly influential American folk music trio of the 1960s known for their harmonies, political activism, and popularizing songs like "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Puff, the Magic Dragon."
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A.
The Weavers
The Weavers were a pioneering American folk music group whose popular recordings and politically tinged repertoire helped spark the mid-20th-century folk music revival.
-
B.
Barry McGuire
Barry McGuire is an American singer-songwriter best known for his 1965 protest hit "Eve of Destruction" and his earlier folk work.
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C.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young was a highly influential American folk-rock supergroup known for its intricate vocal harmonies, politically charged songwriting, and major impact on 1960s–70s rock music.
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D.
The Byrds
The Byrds were an influential American rock band of the 1960s known for pioneering folk rock and psychedelic rock with their jangly guitar sound and rich vocal harmonies.
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E.
Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel were a highly influential American folk-rock duo, best known for their harmonious vocals and classic songs like "The Sound of Silence" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Peter, Paul and Mary Description of subject: Peter, Paul and Mary were a highly influential American folk music trio of the 1960s known for their harmonies, political activism, and popularizing songs like "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Puff, the Magic Dragon."
Referenced by (71)
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