Philip Glass
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Philip Glass is an influential American composer known for his pioneering work in minimalism and his distinctive, repetitive musical structures in operas, film scores, and concert works.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Philip Glass canonical | 96 |
| Philip Glass discography | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1524475 — 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: Philip Glass Context triple: [Juilliard School, hasAlumni, Philip Glass]
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A.
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Jóhann Jóhannsson was an Icelandic composer and musician renowned for his atmospheric, minimalist film scores and experimental solo works.
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B.
John Cage
John Cage was an innovative 20th-century American composer and music theorist known for his pioneering work in experimental music, chance operations, and the use of silence as a compositional element.
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C.
Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt is an Estonian composer renowned for his spiritually inspired minimalist style, particularly his distinctive tintinnabuli technique.
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Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez was a pioneering 20th-century French composer, conductor, and influential advocate of avant-garde and serial music.
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E.
Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès is a British composer, pianist, and conductor renowned for his innovative contemporary classical works and international acclaim.
- 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: Philip Glass Target entity description: Philip Glass is an influential American composer known for his pioneering work in minimalism and his distinctive, repetitive musical structures in operas, film scores, and concert works.
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A.
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Jóhann Jóhannsson was an Icelandic composer and musician renowned for his atmospheric, minimalist film scores and experimental solo works.
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B.
John Cage
John Cage was an innovative 20th-century American composer and music theorist known for his pioneering work in experimental music, chance operations, and the use of silence as a compositional element.
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C.
Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt is an Estonian composer renowned for his spiritually inspired minimalist style, particularly his distinctive tintinnabuli technique.
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D.
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez was a pioneering 20th-century French composer, conductor, and influential advocate of avant-garde and serial music.
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E.
Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès is a British composer, pianist, and conductor renowned for his innovative contemporary classical works and international acclaim.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Philip Glass Description of subject: Philip Glass is an influential American composer known for his pioneering work in minimalism and his distinctive, repetitive musical structures in operas, film scores, and concert works.
Referenced by (97)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Angelique Kidjo
subject linked to:
Philip Glass song cycle "Book of Longing"
subject linked to:
Philip Glass song cycle "Book of Longing"
subject linked to:
The Voyage (opera)