Roger Sessions
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Roger Sessions was an influential 20th-century American composer and teacher known for his complex, intellectually rigorous modernist works and significant impact on contemporary classical music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roger Sessions canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9640254 — 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: Roger Sessions Context triple: [Dimitri Mitropoulos, supportedComposer, Roger Sessions]
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A.
Roger Henderson
Roger Henderson is a central character in the 1961 romantic comedy film "The Pleasure of His Company," known as a charming but unreliable father whose return disrupts his daughter's impending marriage.
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B.
Roger Stevens
Roger Stevens was a prominent British civil servant and diplomat who notably served as the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds.
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C.
Paul Tazewell
Paul Tazewell is a Tony Award–winning American costume designer renowned for his work on Broadway productions and other major stage and screen projects.
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D.
Arthur Dorman
Arthur Dorman was a British industrialist best known as a co-founder of the major steel and engineering firm Dorman Long and Co Ltd, which played a significant role in bridge building and heavy industry.
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E.
Robert Seaman
Robert Seaman was a wealthy American industrialist and manufacturer who became known as the husband of pioneering journalist Nellie Bly.
- 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: Roger Sessions Target entity description: Roger Sessions was an influential 20th-century American composer and teacher known for his complex, intellectually rigorous modernist works and significant impact on contemporary classical music.
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A.
Roger Henderson
Roger Henderson is a central character in the 1961 romantic comedy film "The Pleasure of His Company," known as a charming but unreliable father whose return disrupts his daughter's impending marriage.
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B.
Roger Stevens
Roger Stevens was a prominent British civil servant and diplomat who notably served as the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds.
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C.
Paul Tazewell
Paul Tazewell is a Tony Award–winning American costume designer renowned for his work on Broadway productions and other major stage and screen projects.
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D.
Arthur Dorman
Arthur Dorman was a British industrialist best known as a co-founder of the major steel and engineering firm Dorman Long and Co Ltd, which played a significant role in bridge building and heavy industry.
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E.
Robert Seaman
Robert Seaman was a wealthy American industrialist and manufacturer who became known as the husband of pioneering journalist Nellie Bly.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Roger Sessions Description of subject: Roger Sessions was an influential 20th-century American composer and teacher known for his complex, intellectually rigorous modernist works and significant impact on contemporary classical music.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.