Blas Galindo
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Blas Galindo was a prominent Mexican composer associated with the nationalist movement in 20th-century Mexican classical music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Blas Galindo canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8137993 — 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: Blas Galindo Context triple: [Carlos Chávez, notableStudent, Blas Galindo]
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A.
José María Liceaga
José María Liceaga was a Mexican independence-era military and political leader who played a key role in early insurgent governance, including presiding over the revolutionary Congress that sought to formalize Mexico’s break from Spain.
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B.
Salvador Valdés Mesa
Salvador Valdés Mesa is a Cuban politician and former trade union leader who has served in top state and party leadership positions, including as vice president of Cuba.
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C.
Francisco Alberto Caamaño
Francisco Alberto Caamaño was a Dominican military officer and constitutionalist leader who became a key figure in the 1965 Dominican Civil War and briefly served as de facto president while resisting foreign intervention.
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D.
Francisco Ávila
Francisco Ávila was a 19th-century Californio rancher and civic leader in Los Angeles, best known as the original owner of the historic Avila Adobe.
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E.
Alfonso Herrera Salcedo
Alfonso Herrera Salcedo is a cinematographer known for his work on the romantic comedy-drama film "Nappily Ever After."
- 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: Blas Galindo Target entity description: Blas Galindo was a prominent Mexican composer associated with the nationalist movement in 20th-century Mexican classical music.
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A.
José María Liceaga
José María Liceaga was a Mexican independence-era military and political leader who played a key role in early insurgent governance, including presiding over the revolutionary Congress that sought to formalize Mexico’s break from Spain.
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B.
Salvador Valdés Mesa
Salvador Valdés Mesa is a Cuban politician and former trade union leader who has served in top state and party leadership positions, including as vice president of Cuba.
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C.
Francisco Alberto Caamaño
Francisco Alberto Caamaño was a Dominican military officer and constitutionalist leader who became a key figure in the 1965 Dominican Civil War and briefly served as de facto president while resisting foreign intervention.
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D.
Francisco Ávila
Francisco Ávila was a 19th-century Californio rancher and civic leader in Los Angeles, best known as the original owner of the historic Avila Adobe.
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E.
Alfonso Herrera Salcedo
Alfonso Herrera Salcedo is a cinematographer known for his work on the romantic comedy-drama film "Nappily Ever After."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mexican composer
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composer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 20th century ⓘ |
| compositionalStyle | nationalist ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Mexico ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Mexico ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1910-02-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1993-04-19 ⓘ |
| describedBySource | musicological literature on Mexican nationalism in music ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Conservatorio Nacional de Música (Mexico) ⓘ |
| employer | Conservatorio Nacional de Música (Mexico) ⓘ |
| familyName | Galindo ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
chamber music
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choral music ⓘ music education ⓘ orchestral composition ⓘ |
| genre | classical music ⓘ |
| givenName | Blas ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| influenced | development of Mexican nationalist classical music ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Mexican folk music
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mariachi music ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Spanish ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Grupo de los 4 (Mexican composers)
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Grupo de los Cuatro ⓘ |
| movement |
20th-century Mexican classical music
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Mexican nationalist movement in music ⓘ |
| name | Blas Galindo ⓘ |
| nationality | Mexican ⓘ |
| notableStudent | various Mexican composers of the mid-20th century ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Sones de mariachi
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Sones de mariachi (orchestral suite) ⓘ concertos and orchestral pieces inspired by Mexican themes ⓘ |
| occupation | composer ⓘ |
| partOf |
20th-century classical composers
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Mexican classical composers ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Gabriel, Jalisco ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Mexico City ⓘ |
| positionHeld | director of the Conservatorio Nacional de Música (Mexico) ⓘ |
| usesMusicalElement |
folk melodies
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indigenous Mexican themes ⓘ popular dance rhythms ⓘ |
| workLocation | Mexico City ⓘ |
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: Blas Galindo Description of subject: Blas Galindo was a prominent Mexican composer associated with the nationalist movement in 20th-century Mexican classical music.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.