Houston Ballet
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Houston Ballet is a leading American ballet company based in Houston, Texas, renowned for its world-class dancers, innovative repertoire, and prominent role in the international dance community.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Houston Ballet canonical | 10 |
| Houston Ballet Academy | 1 |
| Houston Ballet Dance Company | 1 |
| Houston Ballet II | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7013301 — 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: Houston Ballet Context triple: [Carlos Acosta, employer, Houston Ballet]
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A.
Kansas City Ballet
Kansas City Ballet is a professional ballet company based in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its classical and contemporary productions and its role as a leading cultural institution in the region.
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B.
American Ballet Theatre
American Ballet Theatre is one of the leading classical ballet companies in the United States, renowned for its extensive repertoire and international touring.
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C.
Dayton Ballet
Dayton Ballet is a professional dance company based in Dayton, Ohio, known for its classical and contemporary ballet performances and community engagement.
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D.
Chicago City Ballet
Chicago City Ballet was a professional ballet company based in Chicago, known for its artistic leadership under renowned prima ballerina Maria Tallchief.
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E.
San Francisco Ballet
San Francisco Ballet is one of the oldest professional ballet companies in the United States, renowned for its innovative repertory, world-class dancers, and influential role in American ballet.
- 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: Houston Ballet Target entity description: Houston Ballet is a leading American ballet company based in Houston, Texas, renowned for its world-class dancers, innovative repertoire, and prominent role in the international dance community.
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A.
Kansas City Ballet
Kansas City Ballet is a professional ballet company based in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its classical and contemporary productions and its role as a leading cultural institution in the region.
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B.
American Ballet Theatre
American Ballet Theatre is one of the leading classical ballet companies in the United States, renowned for its extensive repertoire and international touring.
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C.
Dayton Ballet
Dayton Ballet is a professional dance company based in Dayton, Ohio, known for its classical and contemporary ballet performances and community engagement.
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D.
Chicago City Ballet
Chicago City Ballet was a professional ballet company based in Chicago, known for its artistic leadership under renowned prima ballerina Maria Tallchief.
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E.
San Francisco Ballet
San Francisco Ballet is one of the oldest professional ballet companies in the United States, renowned for its innovative repertory, world-class dancers, and influential role in American ballet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | ballet company ⓘ |
| artForm | dance ⓘ |
| artisticDirector | Stanton Welch ⓘ |
| artisticDirectorStartYear | 2003 ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Houston, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Houston, Texas, United States
|
| city | Houston ⓘ |
| commissionedFrom |
Ben Stevenson
ⓘ
Christopher Bruce ⓘ Jirí Kylián ⓘ
linked to:
Jiří Kylián
Stanton Welch ⓘ Trey McIntyre ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employs | professional dancers ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
classical ballet repertoire
ⓘ
contemporary works ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1955 ⓘ |
| founder | Tatiana Semenova ⓘ |
| genre |
ballet
ⓘ
contemporary ballet ⓘ |
| hasDivision | Houston Ballet II ⓘ |
| hasOrchestra | Houston Ballet Orchestra ⓘ |
| hasSchool |
Houston Ballet Academy
ⓘ
linked to:
Houston Ballet
|
| hasWebsite | https://www.houstonballet.org/ ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location |
Houston, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Houston, Texas, United States
|
| musicDirector | Erik Ochsner ⓘ |
| nonProfitStatus | nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| notableFor |
innovative repertoire
ⓘ
original full-length productions ⓘ strong contemporary choreography ⓘ world-class dancers ⓘ |
| offers |
community education programs
ⓘ
outreach programs ⓘ |
| performs |
Don Quixote
ⓘ
Giselle ⓘ
linked to:
Giselle in Giselle
Swan Lake ⓘ The Nutcracker ⓘ |
| performsAt |
Brown Theater
ⓘ
Wortham Theater Center ⓘ |
| region | Greater Houston area ⓘ |
| reputation |
internationally recognized ballet company
ⓘ
leading American ballet company ⓘ |
| roleIn | international dance community ⓘ |
| sector | performing arts ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| trains | pre-professional ballet students ⓘ |
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: Houston Ballet Description of subject: Houston Ballet is a leading American ballet company based in Houston, Texas, renowned for its world-class dancers, innovative repertoire, and prominent role in the international dance community.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Houston Ballet
linked to: Houston Ballet