Symphony No. 8
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Symphony No. 8 is a large-scale orchestral work by German composer Hans Werner Henze that reflects his characteristically modern, expressive, and politically aware musical style.
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| Symphony No. 8 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22399705 — 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: Symphony No. 8 Context triple: [Hans Werner Henze, notableWork, Symphony No. 8]
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Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 8 is a mid-20th-century symphonic work by British composer Malcolm Arnold, noted for its vivid orchestration and contrasting emotional character.
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Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 8 is a large-scale orchestral work by British composer Peter Maxwell Davies, reflecting his distinctive modernist style and often programmatic, historically informed approach to symphonic writing.
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Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 8 is a commonly used designation for several composers’ eighth symphonies, most famously Franz Schubert’s unfinished Symphony in B minor.
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Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 8 is a modern orchestral work by British composer Christopher Gunning, reflecting his contemporary symphonic style and expressive, cinematic approach to composition.
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Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 8 is a large-scale orchestral work by British composer Wilfred Josephs, reflecting his characteristically expressive and modern symphonic style.
- 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: Symphony No. 8 Target entity description: Symphony No. 8 is a large-scale orchestral work by German composer Hans Werner Henze that reflects his characteristically modern, expressive, and politically aware musical style.
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Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 8 is a late 20th-century symphonic work by German composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann, reflecting his intense, modernist musical language and critical stance toward the political turmoil of his time.
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B.
Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 8 is a mid-20th-century symphonic work by British composer Malcolm Arnold, noted for its vivid orchestration and contrasting emotional character.
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C.
Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 8 is a large-scale orchestral work by British composer Peter Maxwell Davies, reflecting his distinctive modernist style and often programmatic, historically informed approach to symphonic writing.
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D.
Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 8 is a large-scale orchestral work by British composer Wilfred Josephs, reflecting his characteristically expressive and modern symphonic style.
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E.
Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 8 is a modern orchestral work by British composer Christopher Gunning, reflecting his contemporary symphonic style and expressive, cinematic approach to composition.
- F. None of above. chosen
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