HWV 40
E581612
HWV 40 is the catalogue number for George Frideric Handel’s opera "Serse" (Xerxes), best known for its famous aria "Ombra mai fu."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| HWV 40 canonical | 2 |
| HWV 40 (within opera Serse) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6006430 — 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: HWV 40 Context triple: [Serse, catalogueEntry, HWV 40]
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A.
HWV 34
HWV 34 is the catalogue number for George Frideric Handel’s opera "Alcina," a Baroque work first performed in 1735.
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B.
HWV 61
HWV 61 is the catalogue number for George Frideric Handel’s English oratorio "Belshazzar," composed in the mid-18th century.
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C.
HWV 348
HWV 348 is one of the orchestral suites that make up George Frideric Handel’s celebrated Water Music.
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D.
HWV 54
HWV 54 is the catalogue number for George Frideric Handel’s oratorio "Israel in Egypt," a major choral work first performed in 1739.
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E.
HWV 260
HWV 260 is one of George Frideric Handel’s Coronation Anthems, composed for the coronation of a British monarch in the early 18th century.
- 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: HWV 40 Target entity description: HWV 40 is the catalogue number for George Frideric Handel’s opera "Serse" (Xerxes), best known for its famous aria "Ombra mai fu."
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A.
HWV 34
HWV 34 is the catalogue number for George Frideric Handel’s opera "Alcina," a Baroque work first performed in 1735.
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B.
HWV 61
HWV 61 is the catalogue number for George Frideric Handel’s English oratorio "Belshazzar," composed in the mid-18th century.
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C.
HWV 348
HWV 348 is one of the orchestral suites that make up George Frideric Handel’s celebrated Water Music.
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D.
HWV 54
HWV 54 is the catalogue number for George Frideric Handel’s oratorio "Israel in Egypt," a major choral work first performed in 1739.
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E.
HWV 260
HWV 260 is one of George Frideric Handel’s Coronation Anthems, composed for the coronation of a British monarch in the early 18th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: HWV 40 Description of subject: HWV 40 is the catalogue number for George Frideric Handel’s opera "Serse" (Xerxes), best known for its famous aria "Ombra mai fu."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.