Dmitri Shostakovich
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Dmitri Shostakovich was a prominent 20th-century Russian composer known for his symphonies, string quartets, and politically charged works created under the Soviet regime.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dmitri Shostakovich canonical | 30 |
| Shostakovich | 3 |
| Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1043567 — 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: Dmitri Shostakovich Context triple: [Novodevichy Cemetery, burialPlaceOf, Dmitri Shostakovich]
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A.
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev was a prominent 20th-century Russian composer and pianist known for works such as "Peter and the Wolf," the ballet "Romeo and Juliet," and the "Classical" Symphony.
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B.
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky was a pioneering 20th-century Russian-born composer whose innovative works, such as "The Rite of Spring," revolutionized modern classical music and made him a central figure of musical modernism.
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C.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a renowned Russian Romantic composer celebrated for works such as his ballets "Swan Lake," "The Nutcracker," and "Sleeping Beauty," as well as his symphonies and concertos.
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D.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor renowned for his emotionally powerful Romantic-era works and virtuosic piano concertos.
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E.
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin, better known as Vyacheslav Molotov, was a prominent Soviet politician and diplomat who served as Joseph Stalin’s close associate and the long-time foreign minister of the USSR.
- 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: Dmitri Shostakovich Target entity description: Dmitri Shostakovich was a prominent 20th-century Russian composer known for his symphonies, string quartets, and politically charged works created under the Soviet regime.
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A.
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev was a prominent 20th-century Russian composer and pianist known for works such as "Peter and the Wolf," the ballet "Romeo and Juliet," and the "Classical" Symphony.
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B.
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky was a pioneering 20th-century Russian-born composer whose innovative works, such as "The Rite of Spring," revolutionized modern classical music and made him a central figure of musical modernism.
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C.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a renowned Russian Romantic composer celebrated for works such as his ballets "Swan Lake," "The Nutcracker," and "Sleeping Beauty," as well as his symphonies and concertos.
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D.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor renowned for his emotionally powerful Romantic-era works and virtuosic piano concertos.
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E.
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin, better known as Vyacheslav Molotov, was a prominent Soviet politician and diplomat who served as Joseph Stalin’s close associate and the long-time foreign minister of the USSR.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Dmitri Shostakovich Description of subject: Dmitri Shostakovich was a prominent 20th-century Russian composer known for his symphonies, string quartets, and politically charged works created under the Soviet regime.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Saint Petersburg Conservatory (through artists and productions)
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Dmitri Shostakovich
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subject surface form:
Saint Petersburg Conservatory
Saint Petersburg Conservatory (through artists and productions)
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Dmitri Shostakovich
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subject surface form:
Saint Petersburg Conservatory
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Boris Godunov
this entity surface form:
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich
this entity surface form:
Shostakovich
this entity surface form:
Shostakovich
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Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar"
subject surface form:
Symphony
this entity surface form:
Shostakovich