Per Nørgård
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Per Nørgård is a Danish composer renowned for his innovative symphonic and chamber works, distinctive use of the “infinity series” technique, and major influence on contemporary Nordic music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Per Nørgård canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6799117 — 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: Per Nørgård Context triple: [Nordic Council Music Prize, notableLaureate, Per Nørgård]
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A.
Kurt Westergaard
Kurt Westergaard was a Danish cartoonist best known internationally for his controversial 2005 depiction of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked widespread protests and debate over freedom of expression.
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B.
Carl-Henning Pedersen
Carl-Henning Pedersen was a Danish painter known for his colorful, imaginative, and abstract expressionist works associated with the European avant-garde.
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C.
Niels Torp
Niels Torp is a Norwegian architect known for designing prominent public and commercial buildings in Norway and abroad.
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D.
Morten Primdahl
Morten Primdahl is a Danish entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder and former CTO of the customer service software company Zendesk.
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E.
Morten Ristorp
Morten Ristorp is a Danish songwriter and producer known for his work on international pop and R&B hits.
- 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: Per Nørgård Target entity description: Per Nørgård is a Danish composer renowned for his innovative symphonic and chamber works, distinctive use of the “infinity series” technique, and major influence on contemporary Nordic music.
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A.
Kurt Westergaard
Kurt Westergaard was a Danish cartoonist best known internationally for his controversial 2005 depiction of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked widespread protests and debate over freedom of expression.
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B.
Carl-Henning Pedersen
Carl-Henning Pedersen was a Danish painter known for his colorful, imaginative, and abstract expressionist works associated with the European avant-garde.
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C.
Niels Torp
Niels Torp is a Norwegian architect known for designing prominent public and commercial buildings in Norway and abroad.
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D.
Morten Primdahl
Morten Primdahl is a Danish entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder and former CTO of the customer service software company Zendesk.
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E.
Morten Ristorp
Morten Ristorp is a Danish songwriter and producer known for his work on international pop and R&B hits.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Danish composer
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classical composer ⓘ composer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Léonie Sonning Music Prize
NERFINISHED
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Nordic Council Music Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthCountry | Denmark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1932-07-13 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Gentofte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Denmark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developed | infinity series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Royal Danish Academy of Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Royal Danish Academy of Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Nørgård NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
contemporary classical music
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music composition ⓘ |
| genre |
chamber music
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choral music ⓘ opera ⓘ symphonic music ⓘ |
| givenName | Per NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWorkType |
choral work
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opera ⓘ string quartet ⓘ symphony ⓘ |
| influenced |
Danish contemporary composers
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contemporary Nordic music ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
infinity series technique
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
innovative chamber works ⓘ innovative symphonic works ⓘ |
| language | Danish ⓘ |
| movement | Nordic modernism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Per Nørgård NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Danish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Gilgamesh
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
I Ching NERFINISHED ⓘ Libra NERFINISHED ⓘ Luna NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 6 "At the End of the Day" NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ Voyage into the Golden Screen NERFINISHED ⓘ Wie ein Kind NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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music theorist ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| residence | Denmark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studiedUnder | Vagn Holmboe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Per Nørgård Description of subject: Per Nørgård is a Danish composer renowned for his innovative symphonic and chamber works, distinctive use of the “infinity series” technique, and major influence on contemporary Nordic music.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.