Randall Thompson
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Randall Thompson was a prominent 20th-century American composer best known for his choral works, including the frequently performed piece "Alleluia."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Randall Thompson canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2487880 — 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: Randall Thompson Context triple: [Randall, hasNotableBearer, Randall Thompson]
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A.
John Harbison
John Harbison is an American composer renowned for his orchestral, chamber, choral, and operatic works, and for his influential role in contemporary classical music.
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B.
Jerome Moross
Jerome Moross was an American composer best known for his sweeping, Americana-infused film scores and concert works, particularly in the Western genre.
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C.
Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem was an American composer and diarist renowned for his art songs and influential contributions to 20th-century classical music.
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D.
Samuel Barber
Samuel Barber was a prominent 20th-century American composer best known for his lyrical, neo-Romantic works such as "Adagio for Strings."
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E.
Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison was an American composer known for blending Western classical traditions with non-Western musical influences, especially Indonesian gamelan.
- 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: Randall Thompson Target entity description: Randall Thompson was a prominent 20th-century American composer best known for his choral works, including the frequently performed piece "Alleluia."
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A.
John Harbison
John Harbison is an American composer renowned for his orchestral, chamber, choral, and operatic works, and for his influential role in contemporary classical music.
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B.
Jerome Moross
Jerome Moross was an American composer best known for his sweeping, Americana-infused film scores and concert works, particularly in the Western genre.
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C.
Ned Rorem
Ned Rorem was an American composer and diarist renowned for his art songs and influential contributions to 20th-century classical music.
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D.
Samuel Barber
Samuel Barber was a prominent 20th-century American composer best known for his lyrical, neo-Romantic works such as "Adagio for Strings."
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E.
Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison was an American composer known for blending Western classical traditions with non-Western musical influences, especially Indonesian gamelan.
- 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: Randall Thompson Description of subject: Randall Thompson was a prominent 20th-century American composer best known for his choral works, including the frequently performed piece "Alleluia."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.