Evan Ziporyn
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Evan Ziporyn is an American composer, clarinetist, and founding member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars known for his innovative fusion of Western contemporary music with Balinese gamelan and other non-Western traditions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Evan Ziporyn canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7724866 — 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: Evan Ziporyn Context triple: [Off the Map, hasContributor, Evan Ziporyn]
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A.
Evan Schiff
Evan Schiff is a film editor known for his work on high-profile action movies, including entries in the John Wick franchise.
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B.
Evan Sharp
Evan Sharp is an American designer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former Chief Creative Officer of the visual discovery platform Pinterest.
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C.
Max Zaritsky
Max Zaritsky was an American labor leader and union organizer who played a key role in the early development of industrial unionism in the United States.
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D.
Zev Siegl
Zev Siegl is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the Starbucks coffee company.
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E.
Jonathan Teplitzky
Jonathan Teplitzky is an Australian film director known for character-driven dramas such as "The Railway Man" and "Burning Man."
- 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: Evan Ziporyn Target entity description: Evan Ziporyn is an American composer, clarinetist, and founding member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars known for his innovative fusion of Western contemporary music with Balinese gamelan and other non-Western traditions.
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A.
Evan Schiff
Evan Schiff is a film editor known for his work on high-profile action movies, including entries in the John Wick franchise.
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B.
Evan Sharp
Evan Sharp is an American designer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former Chief Creative Officer of the visual discovery platform Pinterest.
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C.
Max Zaritsky
Max Zaritsky was an American labor leader and union organizer who played a key role in the early development of industrial unionism in the United States.
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D.
Zev Siegl
Zev Siegl is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the Starbucks coffee company.
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E.
Jonathan Teplitzky
Jonathan Teplitzky is an Australian film director known for character-driven dramas such as "The Railway Man" and "Burning Man."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bang on a Can All-Stars member
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clarinetist ⓘ composer ⓘ human ⓘ music educator ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Bang on a Can NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Cambridge, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of California, Berkeley
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Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Balinese gamelan
NERFINISHED
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intercultural music ⓘ music composition ⓘ |
| foundingMemberOf | Bang on a Can All-Stars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary classical music
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experimental music ⓘ minimalism ⓘ world music ⓘ |
| hasCollaboratedWith | Gamelan Galak Tika NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTaught |
composition
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music theory ⓘ performance ⓘ |
| instrument |
bass clarinet
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clarinet ⓘ |
| knownFor |
fusion of Western contemporary music with Balinese gamelan
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integration of non-Western musical traditions into contemporary classical music ⓘ membership in Bang on a Can All-Stars ⓘ performances on bass clarinet ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Bang on a Can All-Stars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Amok!
NERFINISHED
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Aneh Tapi Nyata NERFINISHED ⓘ Frog’s Eye NERFINISHED ⓘ Hard Drive NERFINISHED ⓘ Hive NERFINISHED ⓘ Ngaben NERFINISHED ⓘ Pondok NERFINISHED ⓘ ShadowBang NERFINISHED ⓘ Sulvasutra NERFINISHED ⓘ This Is Not a Clarinet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
clarinetist
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composer ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Faculty Director of the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology
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Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Music at MIT ⓘ |
| workInstitution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Evan Ziporyn Description of subject: Evan Ziporyn is an American composer, clarinetist, and founding member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars known for his innovative fusion of Western contemporary music with Balinese gamelan and other non-Western traditions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.