Judee Sill
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Judee Sill was an American singer-songwriter of the early 1970s known for her intricate, spiritually themed folk-pop compositions and her status as one of the first artists on David Geffen’s Asylum Records label.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Judee Sill canonical | 5 |
| Judee Sill (Judee Sill album) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T835658 — 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: Judee Sill Context triple: [Asylum Records, signedArtist, Judee Sill]
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A.
Judy Collins
Judy Collins is an American singer and songwriter renowned for her influential role in the 1960s folk music scene, distinguished by her clear soprano voice and eclectic repertoire spanning traditional folk, pop, and show tunes.
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B.
Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell is a highly influential Canadian singer-songwriter and painter renowned for her poetic lyrics, innovative compositions, and landmark albums such as "Blue" and "Court and Spark."
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C.
Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter celebrated for her influential work in country and folk music, renowned harmonies, and numerous Grammy-winning recordings.
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D.
Edie Brickell
Edie Brickell is an American singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of Edie Brickell & New Bohemians and for her folk-rock and Americana collaborations.
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E.
Rollie Lynn Riggs
Rollie Lynn Riggs was an American playwright, poet, and screenwriter best known for his play "Green Grow the Lilacs," which inspired the classic musical "Oklahoma!".
- 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: Judee Sill Target entity description: Judee Sill was an American singer-songwriter of the early 1970s known for her intricate, spiritually themed folk-pop compositions and her status as one of the first artists on David Geffen’s Asylum Records label.
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A.
Judy Collins
Judy Collins is an American singer and songwriter renowned for her influential role in the 1960s folk music scene, distinguished by her clear soprano voice and eclectic repertoire spanning traditional folk, pop, and show tunes.
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B.
Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell is a highly influential Canadian singer-songwriter and painter renowned for her poetic lyrics, innovative compositions, and landmark albums such as "Blue" and "Court and Spark."
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C.
Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter celebrated for her influential work in country and folk music, renowned harmonies, and numerous Grammy-winning recordings.
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D.
Edie Brickell
Edie Brickell is an American singer-songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of Edie Brickell & New Bohemians and for her folk-rock and Americana collaborations.
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E.
Rollie Lynn Riggs
Rollie Lynn Riggs was an American playwright, poet, and screenwriter best known for his play "Green Grow the Lilacs," which inspired the classic musical "Oklahoma!".
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
musician ⓘ recording artist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | mid 1970s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | late 1960s ⓘ |
| album |
Heart Food
ⓘ
Judee Sill ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Asylum Records artists ⓘ |
| associatedWith | David Geffen ⓘ |
| birthName | Judith Lynn Sill ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | drug overdose ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1944-10-07 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1979-11-23 ⓘ |
| debutAlbum | Judee Sill ⓘ |
| debutAlbumReleaseYear | 1971 ⓘ |
| familyName | Sill ⓘ |
| genre |
baroque pop
ⓘ
country rock ⓘ folk ⓘ folk pop ⓘ folk rock ⓘ |
| givenName | Judith ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | contemporary singer-songwriters ⓘ |
| instrument |
guitar
ⓘ
piano ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| lyricalTheme |
Christian mysticism
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redemption ⓘ romantic love ⓘ spirituality ⓘ |
| movement | singer-songwriter movement of the early 1970s ⓘ |
| name | Judee Sill ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the first artists signed to Asylum Records
ⓘ
intricate, spiritually themed compositions ⓘ |
| occupation |
guitarist
ⓘ
pianist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
|
| posthumousRecognition | cult following ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Asylum Records
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Elektra Records ⓘ |
| secondAlbum | Heart Food ⓘ |
| secondAlbumReleaseYear | 1973 ⓘ |
| vocalType | mezzo-soprano ⓘ |
| wroteSong |
Crayon Angels
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Jesus Was a Cross Maker ⓘ The Kiss ⓘ |
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: Judee Sill Description of subject: Judee Sill was an American singer-songwriter of the early 1970s known for her intricate, spiritually themed folk-pop compositions and her status as one of the first artists on David Geffen’s Asylum Records label.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Judee Sill