Witold Lutosławski
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Witold Lutosławski was a prominent 20th-century Polish composer known for his innovative orchestral works and use of controlled aleatoricism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Witold Lutosławski canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5374073 — 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: Witold Lutosławski Context triple: [Anne-Sophie Mutter, commissionedWorkFrom, Witold Lutosławski]
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A.
Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Penderecki was a renowned Polish composer and conductor, celebrated for his innovative and often avant-garde orchestral and choral works that made him one of the leading figures in contemporary classical music.
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B.
Wojciech Kilar
Wojciech Kilar was a renowned Polish composer best known for his evocative film scores and modern classical works, including music for internationally acclaimed movies.
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C.
Bronisław Kaper
Bronisław Kaper was a Polish-born Hollywood film composer best known for his Academy Award–winning scores and contributions to classic mid-20th-century cinema.
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D.
Pavel Haas
Pavel Haas was a Czech composer of the early 20th century, known for his innovative chamber and orchestral works and his tragic death in the Holocaust.
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E.
György Ligeti
György Ligeti was a pioneering 20th-century Hungarian-Austrian composer known for his innovative use of micropolyphony and influential works such as "Atmosphères" and the "Requiem," which gained wide recognition through their use in Stanley Kubrick’s film "2001: A Space Odyssey."
- 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: Witold Lutosławski Target entity description: Witold Lutosławski was a prominent 20th-century Polish composer known for his innovative orchestral works and use of controlled aleatoricism.
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A.
Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Penderecki was a renowned Polish composer and conductor, celebrated for his innovative and often avant-garde orchestral and choral works that made him one of the leading figures in contemporary classical music.
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B.
Wojciech Kilar
Wojciech Kilar was a renowned Polish composer best known for his evocative film scores and modern classical works, including music for internationally acclaimed movies.
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C.
Bronisław Kaper
Bronisław Kaper was a Polish-born Hollywood film composer best known for his Academy Award–winning scores and contributions to classic mid-20th-century cinema.
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D.
Pavel Haas
Pavel Haas was a Czech composer of the early 20th century, known for his innovative chamber and orchestral works and his tragic death in the Holocaust.
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E.
György Ligeti
György Ligeti was a pioneering 20th-century Hungarian-Austrian composer known for his innovative use of micropolyphony and influential works such as "Atmosphères" and the "Requiem," which gained wide recognition through their use in Stanley Kubrick’s film "2001: A Space Odyssey."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Polish composer
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composer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition
NERFINISHED
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Order of Polonia Restituta NERFINISHED ⓘ Order of the White Eagle NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonning Music Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthCountry | Poland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1913-01-25 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Warsaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Poland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1994-02-07 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Warsaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Warsaw Conservatory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Lutosławski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music composition
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orchestration ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary classical music
ⓘ
orchestral music ⓘ |
| givenName | Witold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Krzysztof Penderecki
NERFINISHED
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Thomas Adès NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Béla Bartók
NERFINISHED
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Claude Debussy NERFINISHED ⓘ Igor Stravinsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative orchestral works
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use of controlled aleatoricism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorks |
English
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French ⓘ Polish ⓘ |
| movement | 20th-century classical music ⓘ |
| name | Witold Lutosławski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Polish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cello Concerto
NERFINISHED
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Chain 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Chain 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Chain 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Concerto for Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ Dance Preludes NERFINISHED ⓘ Les espaces du sommeil NERFINISHED ⓘ Livre pour orchestre NERFINISHED ⓘ Musique funèbre NERFINISHED ⓘ Paganini Variations NERFINISHED ⓘ Paroles tissées NERFINISHED ⓘ Partita for violin and orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ Piano Concerto ⓘ Symphony No. 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Venetian Games NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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conductor ⓘ |
| residence | Warsaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Danuta Bogusławska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedTechnique |
advanced orchestration
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controlled aleatoricism ⓘ twelve-tone-inspired pitch organization ⓘ |
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: Witold Lutosławski Description of subject: Witold Lutosławski was a prominent 20th-century Polish composer known for his innovative orchestral works and use of controlled aleatoricism.
Referenced by (5)
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