Newport Folk Festival
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The Newport Folk Festival is a historic American music festival renowned for showcasing influential folk, roots, and Americana artists and for pivotal moments like Bob Dylan’s controversial electric performance in 1965.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Newport Folk Festival canonical | 23 |
| Newport Folk Festival 1965 | 2 |
| Newport Folk Festival grounds | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T835149 — 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: Newport Folk Festival Context triple: [American folk music revival, hasNotableEvent, Newport Folk Festival]
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A.
Ithaca Festival
Ithaca Festival is an annual community arts and music celebration in downtown Ithaca, New York, featuring local performers, parades, and cultural activities.
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B.
Shrewsbury Folk Festival
Shrewsbury Folk Festival is a major annual music and arts event in Shrewsbury that showcases folk and roots music from the UK and around the world.
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C.
Big Ears Festival
Big Ears Festival is an annual avant-garde music and arts festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, known for its adventurous programming that spans experimental, classical, jazz, and indie genres.
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D.
Winnipeg Folk Festival
The Winnipeg Folk Festival is a renowned annual outdoor music and arts festival in Winnipeg, Canada, celebrated for its diverse folk and roots performances and vibrant community atmosphere.
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E.
Isle of Wight Festival
The Isle of Wight Festival is a major British music festival, famous for its historic late-1960s events featuring iconic rock acts and its modern revival as a large annual live music gathering.
- 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: Newport Folk Festival Target entity description: The Newport Folk Festival is a historic American music festival renowned for showcasing influential folk, roots, and Americana artists and for pivotal moments like Bob Dylan’s controversial electric performance in 1965.
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A.
Ithaca Festival
Ithaca Festival is an annual community arts and music celebration in downtown Ithaca, New York, featuring local performers, parades, and cultural activities.
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B.
Shrewsbury Folk Festival
Shrewsbury Folk Festival is a major annual music and arts event in Shrewsbury that showcases folk and roots music from the UK and around the world.
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C.
Big Ears Festival
Big Ears Festival is an annual avant-garde music and arts festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, known for its adventurous programming that spans experimental, classical, jazz, and indie genres.
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D.
Winnipeg Folk Festival
The Winnipeg Folk Festival is a renowned annual outdoor music and arts festival in Winnipeg, Canada, celebrated for its diverse folk and roots performances and vibrant community atmosphere.
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E.
Isle of Wight Festival
The Isle of Wight Festival is a major British music festival, famous for its historic late-1960s events featuring iconic rock acts and its modern revival as a large annual live music gathering.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concert performance
ⓘ
folk festival ⓘ music festival ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| date | 1965 ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Albert Grossman
ⓘ
George Wein ⓘ Pete Seeger ⓘ Theodore Bikel ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre |
Americana
ⓘ
bluegrass ⓘ blues ⓘ country ⓘ folk music ⓘ roots music ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| hasAudienceType | all ages ⓘ |
| hasCapacity | approximately 10,000–15,000 per day ⓘ |
| hasPolicy | non-corporate branding on festival grounds ⓘ |
| hasStage |
Fort Stage
ⓘ
Harbor Stage ⓘ Quad Stage ⓘ |
| inception | 1959 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
collaborative onstage performances
ⓘ
historic performances in American folk music ⓘ intimate, small-stage sets ⓘ politically engaged music ⓘ showcasing emerging folk artists ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Fort Adams State Park
ⓘ
Newport, Rhode Island ⓘ |
| location | Newport Folk Festival ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Bob Dylan electric performance at Newport Folk Festival 1965 ⓘ |
| notablePerformer |
Bob Dylan
ⓘ
Brandi Carlile ⓘ Fleet Foxes ⓘ Joan Baez ⓘ Johnny Cash ⓘ Joni Mitchell ⓘ Mavis Staples ⓘ Mumford & Sons ⓘ Pete Seeger ⓘ The Avett Brothers ⓘ |
| organizer | George Wein ⓘ |
| performer | Bob Dylan ⓘ |
| significantFor |
bridging traditional folk and contemporary genres
ⓘ
revival of American folk music in the 1960s ⓘ |
| sisterFestival | Newport Jazz Festival ⓘ |
| typicalStartTime | late July ⓘ |
| website | https://www.newportfolk.org/ ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Newport Folk Festival Description of subject: The Newport Folk Festival is a historic American music festival renowned for showcasing influential folk, roots, and Americana artists and for pivotal moments like Bob Dylan’s controversial electric performance in 1965.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Newport Folk Festival
linked to: Newport Folk Festival
linked to: Newport Folk Festival
linked to: Newport Folk Festival
subject linked to:
Wein