Edmund Rubbra
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Edmund Rubbra was a 20th-century English composer best known for his symphonies and sacred choral music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edmund Rubbra canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7595611 — 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: Edmund Rubbra Context triple: [Wolvercote Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Edmund Rubbra]
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A.
Michael Tippett
Michael Tippett was a prominent 20th-century British composer known for his innovative, lyrical works and engagement with social and humanist themes.
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B.
Arthur Bliss
Arthur Bliss was a prominent 20th-century British composer known for his orchestral works, film scores, and tenure as Master of the Queen’s Music.
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C.
Herbert Howells
Herbert Howells was a 20th-century English composer and organist renowned for his choral and sacred music, particularly within the Anglican tradition.
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D.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams was a prominent 20th-century English composer known for his symphonies, choral works, and influential contributions to British ceremonial and folk-inspired music.
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E.
Malcolm Arnold
Malcolm Arnold was a prominent 20th-century English composer best known for his symphonies, concertos, and acclaimed film scores such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai."
- 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: Edmund Rubbra Target entity description: Edmund Rubbra was a 20th-century English composer best known for his symphonies and sacred choral music.
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A.
Michael Tippett
Michael Tippett was a prominent 20th-century British composer known for his innovative, lyrical works and engagement with social and humanist themes.
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B.
Arthur Bliss
Arthur Bliss was a prominent 20th-century British composer known for his orchestral works, film scores, and tenure as Master of the Queen’s Music.
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C.
Herbert Howells
Herbert Howells was a 20th-century English composer and organist renowned for his choral and sacred music, particularly within the Anglican tradition.
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D.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams was a prominent 20th-century English composer known for his symphonies, choral works, and influential contributions to British ceremonial and folk-inspired music.
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E.
Malcolm Arnold
Malcolm Arnold was a prominent 20th-century English composer best known for his symphonies, concertos, and acclaimed film scores such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
classical composer
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composer ⓘ human ⓘ music educator ⓘ symphonist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1901-05-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1986-02-14 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Reading University
NERFINISHED
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Royal College of Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
NERFINISHED
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University of Oxford ⓘ |
| familyName | Rubbra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
classical music
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sacred choral music ⓘ symphonic music ⓘ |
| givenName | Edmund NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | 20th-century classical music ⓘ |
| name | Edmund Rubbra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality |
British
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English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Inscape
NERFINISHED
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Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in A-flat NERFINISHED ⓘ Missa Cantuariensis NERFINISHED ⓘ Sinfonia Concertante NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 10 NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 11 NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 5 NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 8 NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 9 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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music teacher ⓘ pianist ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
England
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Northampton NERFINISHED ⓘ Northamptonshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Buckinghamshire
NERFINISHED
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England ⓘ Gerards Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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How these facts were elicited
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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: Edmund Rubbra Description of subject: Edmund Rubbra was a 20th-century English composer best known for his symphonies and sacred choral music.
Referenced by (3)
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