Ye Xiaogang
E694798
Ye Xiaogang is a prominent contemporary Chinese composer known for blending Western symphonic techniques with traditional Chinese musical elements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ye Xiaogang canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7815479 — 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: Ye Xiaogang Context triple: [Central Conservatory of Music, notableAlumni, Ye Xiaogang]
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A.
Zhu Zhanping
Zhu Zhanping was a Ming dynasty imperial prince, known primarily as a son of the Hongxi Emperor of China.
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B.
Gu Changwei
Gu Changwei is a renowned Chinese cinematographer and film director known for his work on acclaimed films such as "Farewell My Concubine" and "Red Sorghum."
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C.
Yu Fengzhi
Yu Fengzhi was a Chinese educator and social activist best known as the wife of warlord Zhang Xueliang and for her later work promoting Chinese culture and education abroad.
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D.
Ye Zhengguang
Ye Zhengguang is a descendant of prominent Chinese military leader and politician Ye Ting.
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E.
Chen Qigang
Chen Qigang is a prominent Chinese-French composer known for his lyrical orchestral works and acclaimed film scores that blend Eastern and Western musical traditions.
- 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: Ye Xiaogang Target entity description: Ye Xiaogang is a prominent contemporary Chinese composer known for blending Western symphonic techniques with traditional Chinese musical elements.
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A.
Zhu Zhanping
Zhu Zhanping was a Ming dynasty imperial prince, known primarily as a son of the Hongxi Emperor of China.
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B.
Gu Changwei
Gu Changwei is a renowned Chinese cinematographer and film director known for his work on acclaimed films such as "Farewell My Concubine" and "Red Sorghum."
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C.
Yu Fengzhi
Yu Fengzhi was a Chinese educator and social activist best known as the wife of warlord Zhang Xueliang and for her later work promoting Chinese culture and education abroad.
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D.
Ye Zhengguang
Ye Zhengguang is a descendant of prominent Chinese military leader and politician Ye Ting.
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E.
Chen Qigang
Chen Qigang is a prominent Chinese-French composer known for his lyrical orchestral works and acclaimed film scores that blend Eastern and Western musical traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chinese composer
ⓘ
composer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| almaMater | Central Conservatory of Music ⓘ |
| citizenship |
People's Republic of China
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linked to:
China
|
| composesFor |
chamber ensemble
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solo instruments ⓘ symphony orchestra ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | China ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Central Conservatory of Music
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Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg ⓘ |
| employer | Central Conservatory of Music ⓘ |
| familyName | Ye ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
contemporary classical music
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orchestral music ⓘ symphonic music ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary classical
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orchestral ⓘ symphonic ⓘ |
| givenName | Xiaogang ⓘ |
| hasCreativeApproach |
fusion of Chinese timbres with symphonic orchestration
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integration of Chinese pentatonic modes with Western harmony ⓘ |
| hasRole | professor of composition ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Chinese folk music
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Chinese traditional opera ⓘ Western classical music ⓘ |
| languageOfCulturalContext | Chinese ⓘ |
| memberOf | Chinese Musicians Association ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary music ⓘ |
| name | Ye Xiaogang ⓘ |
| nationality | Chinese ⓘ |
| notability | prominent contemporary Chinese composer ⓘ |
| notableFor | blending Western symphonic techniques with traditional Chinese musical elements ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Horizon
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Starry Sky ⓘ The Great Wall Symphony ⓘ The Last Paradise ⓘ Tianjin Suite ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
music educator ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | China ⓘ |
| positionHeld | vice president of the Central Conservatory of Music ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
Beijing
ⓘ
Hamburg ⓘ |
| usesMusicalElementsFrom | traditional Chinese music ⓘ |
| usesMusicalTechniquesFrom | Western symphonic tradition ⓘ |
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: Ye Xiaogang Description of subject: Ye Xiaogang is a prominent contemporary Chinese composer known for blending Western symphonic techniques with traditional Chinese musical elements.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.