Steve Reich
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Steve Reich is an American composer and pioneer of minimal music, known for his innovative use of phasing, repetition, and rhythmic patterns in works like "Music for 18 Musicians."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Steve Reich canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4901713 — 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: Steve Reich Context triple: [John Adams (composer), influencedBy, Steve Reich]
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A.
Philip Glass
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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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.
John Cage
John Cage is a quirky, neurotic, and endearingly eccentric lawyer on the television series "Ally McBeal," known for his unusual habits and imaginative inner life.
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D.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen was a pioneering 20th-century German composer known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, serialism, and spatialization of sound.
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E.
Milton Babbitt
Milton Babbitt was an influential American composer and music theorist known for his pioneering work in serialism and electronic music.
- 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: Steve Reich Target entity description: Steve Reich is an American composer and pioneer of minimal music, known for his innovative use of phasing, repetition, and rhythmic patterns in works like "Music for 18 Musicians."
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A.
Philip Glass
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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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.
John Cage
John Cage is a quirky, neurotic, and endearingly eccentric lawyer on the television series "Ally McBeal," known for his unusual habits and imaginative inner life.
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D.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen was a pioneering 20th-century German composer known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, serialism, and spatialization of sound.
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E.
Milton Babbitt
Milton Babbitt was an influential American composer and music theorist known for his pioneering work in serialism and electronic music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
ⓘ
human ⓘ minimalist composer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Polar Music Prize
NERFINISHED
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Praemium Imperiale NERFINISHED ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for Music (finalist, not winner) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Stephen Michael Reich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1936-10-03 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cornell University
ⓘ
Juilliard School ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary classical music
ⓘ
minimalism ⓘ |
| influenced |
Brian Eno
NERFINISHED
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John Adams NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip Glass NERFINISHED ⓘ progressive rock musicians ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
African drumming
ⓘ
Balinese gamelan ⓘ Johann Sebastian Bach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument |
percussion
ⓘ
piano ⓘ |
| knownFor |
complex rhythmic patterns
ⓘ
phasing technique ⓘ use of repetition ⓘ |
| movement |
minimal music
ⓘ
process music ⓘ |
| name | Steve Reich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
City Life
NERFINISHED
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Come Out NERFINISHED ⓘ Different Trains NERFINISHED ⓘ Drumming NERFINISHED ⓘ Electric Counterpoint NERFINISHED ⓘ It’s Gonna Rain NERFINISHED ⓘ Music for 18 Musicians NERFINISHED ⓘ Music for a Large Ensemble NERFINISHED ⓘ New York Counterpoint NERFINISHED ⓘ Piano Phase NERFINISHED ⓘ Tehillim NERFINISHED ⓘ The Desert Music NERFINISHED ⓘ Triple Quartet NERFINISHED ⓘ Violin Phase NERFINISHED ⓘ WTC 9/11 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
musician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Beryl Korot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studiedUnder |
Darius Milhaud
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Luciano Berio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Steve Reich Description of subject: Steve Reich is an American composer and pioneer of minimal music, known for his innovative use of phasing, repetition, and rhythmic patterns in works like "Music for 18 Musicians."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.