José Limón
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Mexican-American artist
choreographer
modern dance company
modern dance technique
modern dancer
person
José Limón was a pioneering Mexican-American modern dancer and choreographer renowned for his powerful, humanistic works and for founding the influential Limón Dance Company.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| José Limón canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6427096 — 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: José Limón Context triple: [Doris Humphrey, influenced, José Limón]
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Martha Graham
Martha Graham was a pioneering American modern dancer and choreographer whose innovative techniques and emotionally driven works revolutionized 20th-century dance.
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Doris Humphrey
Doris Humphrey was a pioneering American modern dance choreographer and performer known for developing the fall-and-recovery technique and shaping the evolution of contemporary dance in the early 20th century.
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C.
Agnes de Mille
Agnes de Mille was an influential American choreographer and dancer renowned for integrating character-driven, narrative choreography into mid-20th-century Broadway and ballet.
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D.
George Balanchine
George Balanchine was a pioneering 20th-century choreographer and co-founder of the New York City Ballet, renowned for shaping the style and repertoire of neoclassical ballet.
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Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins was an influential American choreographer and director renowned for his groundbreaking work in ballet and on Broadway, including classics like "West Side Story" and "Fiddler on the Roof."
- 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: José Limón Target entity description: José Limón was a pioneering Mexican-American modern dancer and choreographer renowned for his powerful, humanistic works and for founding the influential Limón Dance Company.
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A.
Martha Graham
Martha Graham was a pioneering American modern dancer and choreographer whose innovative techniques and emotionally driven works revolutionized 20th-century dance.
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B.
Doris Humphrey
Doris Humphrey was a pioneering American modern dance choreographer and performer known for developing the fall-and-recovery technique and shaping the evolution of contemporary dance in the early 20th century.
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C.
Agnes de Mille
Agnes de Mille was an influential American choreographer and dancer renowned for integrating character-driven, narrative choreography into mid-20th-century Broadway and ballet.
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D.
George Balanchine
George Balanchine was a pioneering 20th-century choreographer and co-founder of the New York City Ballet, renowned for shaping the style and repertoire of neoclassical ballet.
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E.
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins was an influential American choreographer and director renowned for his groundbreaking work in ballet and on Broadway, including classics like "West Side Story" and "Fiddler on the Roof."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: José Limón Description of subject: José Limón was a pioneering Mexican-American modern dancer and choreographer renowned for his powerful, humanistic works and for founding the influential Limón Dance Company.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.