The First Emperor (opera)
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The First Emperor is a contemporary opera by Chinese composer Tan Dun that blends Western orchestral traditions with Chinese musical elements to dramatize the life and legacy of Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The First Emperor (Metropolitan Opera commission) | 1 |
| The First Emperor (opera) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1524830 — 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: The First Emperor (opera) Context triple: [Tan Dun, notableWork, The First Emperor (opera)]
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A.
China's Sorrow
China's Sorrow is a grim nickname for the Yellow River, reflecting its long history of catastrophic floods and devastation in China.
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B.
Turandot
Turandot is Giacomo Puccini’s final opera, a grand and dramatic work set in mythical China that is renowned for its powerful arias and lavish orchestration.
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C.
Opera Posthuma
Opera Posthuma is the posthumously published collection of Baruch Spinoza’s major philosophical writings, including his seminal work Ethics.
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D.
The Teahouse of the August Moon
The Teahouse of the August Moon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning Broadway comedy about post–World War II American occupation in Okinawa, later adapted into a successful film and musical.
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E.
opera "Hadrian"
The opera "Hadrian" is a contemporary work by singer-songwriter and composer Rufus Wainwright that dramatizes the life and love of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, particularly his relationship with Antinous.
- 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: The First Emperor (opera) Target entity description: The First Emperor is a contemporary opera by Chinese composer Tan Dun that blends Western orchestral traditions with Chinese musical elements to dramatize the life and legacy of Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor.
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A.
China's Sorrow
China's Sorrow is a grim nickname for the Yellow River, reflecting its long history of catastrophic floods and devastation in China.
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B.
Turandot
Turandot is Giacomo Puccini’s final opera, a grand and dramatic work set in mythical China that is renowned for its powerful arias and lavish orchestration.
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C.
Opera Posthuma
Opera Posthuma is the posthumously published collection of Baruch Spinoza’s major philosophical writings, including his seminal work Ethics.
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D.
The Teahouse of the August Moon
The Teahouse of the August Moon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning Broadway comedy about post–World War II American occupation in Okinawa, later adapted into a successful film and musical.
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E.
opera "Hadrian"
The opera "Hadrian" is a contemporary work by singer-songwriter and composer Rufus Wainwright that dramatizes the life and love of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, particularly his relationship with Antinous.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: The First Emperor (opera) Description of subject: The First Emperor is a contemporary opera by Chinese composer Tan Dun that blends Western orchestral traditions with Chinese musical elements to dramatize the life and legacy of Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.