Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major
E776557
Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major is a large-scale orchestral work, best known as the successor to its composer’s Seventh Symphony and typically noted for its expansive structure and rich harmonic language.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major canonical | 2 |
| Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major, Op. 83 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9065005 — 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: Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major Context triple: [Symphony No. 7 in E minor, followedBy, Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major]
-
A.
Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 8 is a large-scale orchestral work by British composer Peter Maxwell Davies, reflecting his distinctive modernist style and often programmatic, historically informed approach to symphonic writing.
-
B.
Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 8 is a mid-20th-century symphonic work by British composer Malcolm Arnold, noted for its vivid orchestration and contrasting emotional character.
-
C.
Symphony No. 8 in C minor
Symphony No. 8 in C minor is Anton Bruckner’s monumental late-Romantic symphony, renowned for its vast scale, complex structure, and profound spiritual intensity.
-
D.
Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93 is a late symphonic work by Ludwig van Beethoven, noted for its compact, playful character and classical clarity compared to his more monumental symphonies.
-
E.
Symphony No. 8 in D minor
Symphony No. 8 in D minor is a mid-20th-century symphony by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, noted for its inventive orchestration and exploration of varied percussion and timbral effects.
- 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: Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major Target entity description: Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major is a large-scale orchestral work, best known as the successor to its composer’s Seventh Symphony and typically noted for its expansive structure and rich harmonic language.
-
A.
Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 8 is a mid-20th-century symphonic work by British composer Malcolm Arnold, noted for its vivid orchestration and contrasting emotional character.
-
B.
Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 8 is a large-scale orchestral work by British composer Peter Maxwell Davies, reflecting his distinctive modernist style and often programmatic, historically informed approach to symphonic writing.
-
C.
Symphony No. 8 in C minor
Symphony No. 8 in C minor is Anton Bruckner’s monumental late-Romantic symphony, renowned for its vast scale, complex structure, and profound spiritual intensity.
-
D.
Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93 is a late symphonic work by Ludwig van Beethoven, noted for its compact, playful character and classical clarity compared to his more monumental symphonies.
-
E.
Symphony No. 8 in D minor
Symphony No. 8 in D minor is a mid-20th-century symphony by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, noted for its inventive orchestration and exploration of varied percussion and timbral effects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | symphony ⓘ |
| followsWork | Seventh Symphony of its composer ⓘ |
| genre | classical music ⓘ |
| hasMovement |
first movement
ⓘ
fourth movement ⓘ second movement ⓘ third movement ⓘ |
| key | E-flat major ⓘ |
| musicalFeature |
expansive structure
ⓘ
rich harmonic language ⓘ |
| notableFor |
expansive structure
ⓘ
rich harmonic language ⓘ |
| orchestration | orchestra ⓘ |
| structure | large-scale ⓘ |
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: Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major Description of subject: Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major is a large-scale orchestral work, best known as the successor to its composer’s Seventh Symphony and typically noted for its expansive structure and rich harmonic language.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major, Op. 83