Roger McGuinn
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Roger McGuinn is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman of the influential folk-rock band The Byrds.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roger McGuinn canonical | 43 |
| Jim McGuinn | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2172857 — 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: Roger McGuinn Context triple: [Easy Rider, musicBy, Roger McGuinn]
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A.
Graham Nash
Graham Nash is a British-American singer-songwriter and musician best known as a member of the folk-rock supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and for his earlier work with The Hollies.
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B.
David Crosby
David Crosby was an influential American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as a founding member of The Byrds and the folk-rock supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
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C.
Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and the folk-rock supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
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D.
Gene Clark
Gene Clark was an American singer-songwriter best known as a founding member of the folk-rock band The Byrds and a key figure in the development of country rock.
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E.
Arthur Lee
Arthur Lee was an American diplomat and member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia who played a key role in securing French support for the United States during the Revolutionary War.
- 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: Roger McGuinn Target entity description: Roger McGuinn is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman of the influential folk-rock band The Byrds.
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A.
Graham Nash
Graham Nash is a British-American singer-songwriter and musician best known as a member of the folk-rock supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and for his earlier work with The Hollies.
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B.
David Crosby
David Crosby was an influential American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as a founding member of The Byrds and the folk-rock supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
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C.
Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and the folk-rock supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
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D.
Gene Clark
Gene Clark was an American singer-songwriter best known as a founding member of the folk-rock band The Byrds and a key figure in the development of country rock.
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E.
Arthur Lee
Arthur Lee was an American diplomat and member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia who played a key role in securing French support for the United States during the Revolutionary War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Roger McGuinn Description of subject: Roger McGuinn is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist best known as the frontman of the influential folk-rock band The Byrds.
Referenced by (51)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film Renaldo and Clara
linked to: Roger McGuinn
subject linked to:
Turn! Turn! Turn! (album, as member of The Byrds)
linked to: Roger McGuinn
linked to: Roger McGuinn
linked to: Roger McGuinn
subject linked to:
Rolling Thunder Revue tour
linked to: Roger McGuinn
linked to: Roger McGuinn
linked to: Roger McGuinn
subject linked to:
James Joseph McGuinn III
linked to: Roger McGuinn
subject linked to:
Folk Den (online folk song project)
subject linked to:
Folk Den (online folk song project)
subject linked to:
Folk Den (online folk song project)