The Tower of Babel
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The Tower of Babel is an oratorio by Anton Rubinstein that musically dramatizes the biblical story of humanity’s attempt to build a tower reaching heaven and the subsequent confusion of languages.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Tower of Babel canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9551918 — 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: The Tower of Babel Context triple: [Anton Rubinstein, notableWork, The Tower of Babel]
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A.
The Tower of Babel
The Tower of Babel is a famous 16th-century painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder depicting the biblical story of humanity’s attempt to build a tower to reach heaven, symbolizing human ambition and divine judgment.
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B.
Tower of Babel
"Tower of Babel" is a song by Elton John from his 1975 album *Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy*, noted for its dark, theatrical rock style and introspective lyrics.
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C.
La torre di Babele
La torre di Babele is a 1976 rock album by Italian singer-songwriter Edoardo Bennato, known for its satirical lyrics and inventive blend of rock and Mediterranean influences.
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D.
Babel
Babel is a widely used JavaScript compiler that transforms modern ECMAScript code into backward-compatible versions for older environments and tooling.
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E.
Babel
Babel is the second studio album by British folk rock band Mumford & Sons, known for its anthemic sound and commercial success, including winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
- 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: The Tower of Babel Target entity description: The Tower of Babel is an oratorio by Anton Rubinstein that musically dramatizes the biblical story of humanity’s attempt to build a tower reaching heaven and the subsequent confusion of languages.
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A.
The Tower of Babel
The Tower of Babel is a famous 16th-century painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder depicting the biblical story of humanity’s attempt to build a tower to reach heaven, symbolizing human ambition and divine judgment.
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B.
Tower of Babel
"Tower of Babel" is a song by Elton John from his 1975 album *Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy*, noted for its dark, theatrical rock style and introspective lyrics.
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C.
La torre di Babele
La torre di Babele is a 1976 rock album by Italian singer-songwriter Edoardo Bennato, known for its satirical lyrics and inventive blend of rock and Mediterranean influences.
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D.
Babel
Babel is a widely used JavaScript compiler that transforms modern ECMAScript code into backward-compatible versions for older environments and tooling.
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E.
Babel
Babel is the second studio album by British folk rock band Mumford & Sons, known for its anthemic sound and commercial success, including winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical work
ⓘ
oratorio ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Biblical story of the Tower of Babel
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linked to:
Tower of Babel narrative
Book of Genesis ⓘ |
| composer | Anton Rubinstein ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| creator | Anton Rubinstein ⓘ |
| form | oratorio in multiple parts ⓘ |
| genre | sacred oratorio ⓘ |
| hasPart |
arias
ⓘ
choruses ⓘ orchestral sections ⓘ recitatives ⓘ |
| intendedPerformanceVenue | concert hall ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
confusion of languages
ⓘ
divine punishment ⓘ humanity’s attempt to build a tower reaching heaven ⓘ |
| period | Romantic era ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Judeo-Christian ⓘ |
| religiousTextSource |
Hebrew Bible
ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Christian Old Testament
|
| scoring |
chorus
ⓘ
orchestra ⓘ solo voices ⓘ |
| subject |
Tower of Babel
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human pride ⓘ language diversity ⓘ |
| title | The Tower of Babel ⓘ |
| workType | concert work ⓘ |
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: The Tower of Babel Description of subject: The Tower of Babel is an oratorio by Anton Rubinstein that musically dramatizes the biblical story of humanity’s attempt to build a tower reaching heaven and the subsequent confusion of languages.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.