Albert Herring
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Albert Herring is a comic opera by Benjamin Britten that satirically portrays the moral rigidity and social pretensions of a small English village.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Albert Herring canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5434660 — 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: Albert Herring Context triple: [Benjamin Britten, notableWork, Albert Herring]
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A.
Yeomen of the Guard
The Yeomen of the Guard are the monarch’s ceremonial bodyguards in the United Kingdom, known as one of the oldest royal military corps and recognizable by their distinctive Tudor-style uniforms.
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B.
The Mikado
The Mikado is a popular comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan, first performed in 1885, that satirizes British society through a fanciful Japanese setting.
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C.
The Rake's Progress
The Rake's Progress is a 20th-century opera by Igor Stravinsky, renowned for its neoclassical style and satirical narrative of moral decline.
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D.
The Boys from Syracuse
The Boys from Syracuse is a 1938 Rodgers and Hart musical comedy based on Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, known for its mistaken-identity plot and classic songs.
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E.
The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance is a comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan that satirizes Victorian society through the misadventures of an apprentice pirate and his absurdly honorable comrades.
- 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: Albert Herring Target entity description: Albert Herring is a comic opera by Benjamin Britten that satirically portrays the moral rigidity and social pretensions of a small English village.
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A.
Yeomen of the Guard
The Yeomen of the Guard are the monarch’s ceremonial bodyguards in the United Kingdom, known as one of the oldest royal military corps and recognizable by their distinctive Tudor-style uniforms.
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B.
The Mikado
The Mikado is a popular comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan, first performed in 1885, that satirizes British society through a fanciful Japanese setting.
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C.
The Rake's Progress
The Rake's Progress is a 20th-century opera by Igor Stravinsky, renowned for its neoclassical style and satirical narrative of moral decline.
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D.
The Boys from Syracuse
The Boys from Syracuse is a 1938 Rodgers and Hart musical comedy based on Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, known for its mistaken-identity plot and classic songs.
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E.
The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance is a comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan that satirizes Victorian society through the misadventures of an apprentice pirate and his absurdly honorable comrades.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | comic opera ⓘ |
| acts |
Act I
ⓘ
Act II ⓘ Act III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Guy de Maupassant's short story "Le Rosier de Madame Husson" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Albert Herring
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Florence Pike NERFINISHED ⓘ Lady Billows NERFINISHED ⓘ Mayor Upfold NERFINISHED ⓘ Miss Wordsworth NERFINISHED ⓘ Mrs Herring NERFINISHED ⓘ Nancy NERFINISHED ⓘ Sid NERFINISHED ⓘ Superintendent Budd NERFINISHED ⓘ Vicar Gedge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Glyndebourne Festival Opera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Benjamin Britten NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceCompany | Glyndebourne Opera Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comic opera
ⓘ
opera ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
brass
ⓘ
harp ⓘ organ ⓘ percussion ⓘ piano ⓘ strings ⓘ woodwinds ⓘ |
| hasVocalForces |
children's chorus
ⓘ
chorus ⓘ solo voices ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| librettist | Eric Crozier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Albert Herring NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationalityOfComposer | British ⓘ |
| notableRecording | Decca recording conducted by Benjamin Britten ⓘ |
| numberOfActs | three ⓘ |
| orchestration | chamber orchestra ⓘ |
| period | 20th-century opera ⓘ |
| placeInComposerOeuvre | Britten's first full-length comic opera ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 1947-06-20 ⓘ |
| premiereLocation | Glyndebourne, East Sussex, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | fictional town of Loxford, Suffolk, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| structure | three acts ⓘ |
| style |
lyrical
ⓘ
satirical ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
May Day festival
ⓘ
village morality campaign ⓘ |
| theme |
coming of age
ⓘ
satire of moral rigidity ⓘ satire of social pretension ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | late 19th century ⓘ |
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