Evelyn Glennie
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Evelyn Glennie is a renowned Scottish percussionist and composer, celebrated as one of the world’s leading solo percussionists and a prominent advocate for deaf and hard-of-hearing musicians.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Evelyn Glennie canonical | 21 |
| Dame Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie | 1 |
| Dame Evelyn Glennie | 1 |
| Evelyn Glennie, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire | 1 |
| Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1344477 — 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: Evelyn Glennie Context triple: [Royal Academy of Music, notableAlumni, Evelyn Glennie]
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Nick Glennie-Smith
Nick Glennie-Smith is a British film composer and conductor known for his work on high-profile action and adventure movie scores.
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Jacqueline du Pré
Jacqueline du Pré was a renowned British cellist celebrated for her emotionally intense and definitive interpretations, particularly of Elgar’s Cello Concerto.
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Yuja Wang
Yuja Wang is a renowned Chinese classical pianist celebrated for her virtuosic technique, charismatic stage presence, and acclaimed performances with leading orchestras worldwide.
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Anne-Sophie Mutter
Anne-Sophie Mutter is a renowned German violinist celebrated for her virtuosic technique and interpretations of both classical and contemporary repertoire.
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Lang Lang
Lang Lang is a world-renowned Chinese concert pianist celebrated for his virtuosic technique, expressive performances, and role in popularizing classical music globally.
- 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: Evelyn Glennie Target entity description: Evelyn Glennie is a renowned Scottish percussionist and composer, celebrated as one of the world’s leading solo percussionists and a prominent advocate for deaf and hard-of-hearing musicians.
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A.
Nick Glennie-Smith
Nick Glennie-Smith is a British film composer and conductor known for his work on high-profile action and adventure movie scores.
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B.
Jacqueline du Pré
Jacqueline du Pré was a renowned British cellist celebrated for her emotionally intense and definitive interpretations, particularly of Elgar’s Cello Concerto.
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C.
Yuja Wang
Yuja Wang is a renowned Chinese classical pianist celebrated for her virtuosic technique, charismatic stage presence, and acclaimed performances with leading orchestras worldwide.
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D.
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Anne-Sophie Mutter is a renowned German violinist celebrated for her virtuosic technique and interpretations of both classical and contemporary repertoire.
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E.
Lang Lang
Lang Lang is a world-renowned Chinese concert pianist celebrated for his virtuosic technique, expressive performances, and role in popularizing classical music globally.
- 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: Evelyn Glennie Description of subject: Evelyn Glennie is a renowned Scottish percussionist and composer, celebrated as one of the world’s leading solo percussionists and a prominent advocate for deaf and hard-of-hearing musicians.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Evelyn Glennie
linked to: Evelyn Glennie
Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion (Murray Perahia, Evelyn Glennie, et al.)
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Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion (Murray Perahia, Evelyn Glennie, et al.)
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album "Rhythm Song"
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album "Rhythm Song"
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album "Rhythm Song"
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album "Shadow Behind the Iron Sun"
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album "Shadow Behind the Iron Sun"
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album "Shadow Behind the Iron Sun"
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album "Shadow Behind the Iron Sun"
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album "Shadow Behind the Iron Sun"
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autobiography "Good Vibrations"
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autobiography "Good Vibrations"
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autobiography "Good Vibrations"
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autobiography "Good Vibrations"
linked to: Evelyn Glennie
linked to: Evelyn Glennie