Herbert Howells
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Herbert Howells was a 20th-century English composer and organist renowned for his choral and sacred music, particularly within the Anglican tradition.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Herbert Howells canonical | 21 |
| Herbert Howells’ Anglican service settings | 2 |
| Herbert Howells (composer) | 1 |
| Herbert Norman Howells | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T290023 — 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: Herbert Howells Context triple: [coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, musicBy, Herbert Howells]
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams was a prominent 20th-century English composer known for his symphonies, choral works, and influential contributions to British ceremonial and folk-inspired music.
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B.
William Walton
William Walton was a prominent 20th-century English composer known for his orchestral works, film scores, and ceremonial music.
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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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D.
George Black
George Black is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, business, and the arts.
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E.
John Stafford Smith
John Stafford Smith was an English composer best known for writing the melody that later became the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
- 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: Herbert Howells Target entity description: Herbert Howells was a 20th-century English composer and organist renowned for his choral and sacred music, particularly within the Anglican tradition.
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A.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams was a prominent 20th-century English composer known for his symphonies, choral works, and influential contributions to British ceremonial and folk-inspired music.
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B.
William Walton
William Walton was a prominent 20th-century English composer known for his orchestral works, film scores, and ceremonial music.
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C.
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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D.
George Black
George Black is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, business, and the arts.
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E.
John Stafford Smith
John Stafford Smith was an English composer best known for writing the melody that later became the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Herbert Howells Description of subject: Herbert Howells was a 20th-century English composer and organist renowned for his choral and sacred music, particularly within the Anglican tradition.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Herbert Norman Howells
this entity surface form:
Herbert Howells (composer)
Nunc Dimittis (Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace)
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hasBeenSetToMusicBy
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Herbert Howells
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subject surface form:
Nunc Dimittis
subject surface form:
Collegium Regale (Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D)
this entity surface form:
Herbert Howells’ Anglican service settings
this entity surface form:
Herbert Howells’ Anglican service settings