John Crosby
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John Crosby was an American conductor and arts administrator best known as the founding director and long-time leader of the Santa Fe Opera.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Crosby canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2702161 — 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: John Crosby Context triple: [Santa Fe Opera, foundedBy, John Crosby]
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A.
John Grove
John Grove is a publisher associated with the work "The Witty Fair One."
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B.
John Shelby
John Shelby is a key member of the Shelby crime family in the British television series "Peaky Blinders," known for his fierce loyalty, volatility, and role in the gang's violent operations.
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C.
John Newton Mitchell
John Newton Mitchell was the U.S. Attorney General under President Richard Nixon and a central figure convicted in the Watergate scandal.
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D.
Daniel Pope Cook
Daniel Pope Cook was an early 19th-century American politician and lawyer from Illinois who served as a U.S. Representative and was influential in the state's formative years.
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E.
Floyd Crosby
Floyd Crosby was an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic films, including influential low-budget horror and science fiction movies.
- 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: John Crosby Target entity description: John Crosby was an American conductor and arts administrator best known as the founding director and long-time leader of the Santa Fe Opera.
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A.
John Grove
John Grove is a publisher associated with the work "The Witty Fair One."
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B.
John Shelby
John Shelby is a key member of the Shelby crime family in the British television series "Peaky Blinders," known for his fierce loyalty, volatility, and role in the gang's violent operations.
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C.
John Newton Mitchell
John Newton Mitchell was the U.S. Attorney General under President Richard Nixon and a central figure convicted in the Watergate scandal.
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D.
Daniel Pope Cook
Daniel Pope Cook was an early 19th-century American politician and lawyer from Illinois who served as a U.S. Representative and was influential in the state's formative years.
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E.
Floyd Crosby
Floyd Crosby was an Academy Award–winning American cinematographer known for his work on numerous classic films, including influential low-budget horror and science fiction movies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
arts administrator
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conductor ⓘ founding director ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Santa Fe Opera ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
classical music
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opera management ⓘ |
| genre | opera ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Crosby ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | John ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding the Santa Fe Opera
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leading the Santa Fe Opera ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
development of the Santa Fe Opera repertoire
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establishing Santa Fe Opera as a major American summer opera festival ⓘ |
| occupation |
artistic director
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arts administrator ⓘ conductor ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
New Mexico
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United States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
founding director of the Santa Fe Opera
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general director of the Santa Fe Opera ⓘ |
| workLocation | Santa Fe, New Mexico ⓘ |
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: John Crosby Description of subject: John Crosby was an American conductor and arts administrator best known as the founding director and long-time leader of the Santa Fe Opera.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.