Pacific 231
E869272
Pacific 231 is a famous orchestral work by Swiss composer Arthur Honegger that vividly evokes the power and motion of a steam locomotive.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pacific 231 canonical | 2 |
| Pacific 231 (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10523156 — 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: Pacific 231 Context triple: [Arthur Honegger, notableWork, Pacific 231]
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MV Puyallup
MV Puyallup is a large Jumbo Mark II-class passenger and vehicle ferry operating in the Washington State Ferries system, primarily serving busy routes in the Puget Sound region.
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Shoreliner III
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Pacific Vanguard
Pacific Vanguard is the nickname of the U.S. Army’s 500th Military Intelligence Brigade, a unit focused on intelligence operations in the Indo-Pacific region.
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D.
Plymouth Sundance
The Plymouth Sundance was a compact front-wheel-drive car produced by Chrysler's Plymouth division from the late 1980s to mid-1990s, positioned as an affordable small sedan and hatchback.
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E.
Shoreliner IV
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- 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: Pacific 231 Target entity description: Pacific 231 is a famous orchestral work by Swiss composer Arthur Honegger that vividly evokes the power and motion of a steam locomotive.
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A.
MV Puyallup
MV Puyallup is a large Jumbo Mark II-class passenger and vehicle ferry operating in the Washington State Ferries system, primarily serving busy routes in the Puget Sound region.
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B.
Shoreliner III
Shoreliner III is a later-generation variant of the Shoreliner passenger rail coaches used in North American commuter train service.
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C.
Pacific Vanguard
Pacific Vanguard is the nickname of the U.S. Army’s 500th Military Intelligence Brigade, a unit focused on intelligence operations in the Indo-Pacific region.
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D.
Plymouth Sundance
The Plymouth Sundance was a compact front-wheel-drive car produced by Chrysler's Plymouth division from the late 1980s to mid-1990s, positioned as an affordable small sedan and hatchback.
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E.
Shoreliner IV
Shoreliner IV is a later-generation variant of the Danish DSB Shoreliner passenger rail coaches, featuring updated design and amenities for regional and intercity service.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | orchestral work ⓘ |
| alternativeTitle | Mouvement symphonique no. 1 "Pacific 231" ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | French modernist music ⓘ |
| belongsToCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| catalogCode | H. 53 ⓘ |
| composer | Arthur Honegger ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Switzerland ⓘ |
| dateOfComposition | 1923 ⓘ |
| dateOfPremiere | 1923 ⓘ |
| depicts | steam locomotive ⓘ |
| duration | about 6 minutes ⓘ |
| firstPublisher | Éditions Salabert ⓘ |
| genre |
orchestral music
ⓘ
program music ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Pacific 231 (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Pacific 231
|
| hasKey | none (non-tonal / freely tonal) ⓘ |
| hasPart |
brass section
ⓘ
percussion section ⓘ string section ⓘ woodwind section ⓘ |
| hasRecording | numerous commercial recordings ⓘ |
| influenced | later train-inspired musical works ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | steam locomotive ⓘ |
| intendedEffect | vividly evoke a moving train ⓘ |
| isOneOf | Arthur Honegger's best-known works ⓘ |
| language | none ⓘ |
| medium | concert music ⓘ |
| movementType | single-movement work ⓘ |
| notableFor |
evocation of mechanical motion
ⓘ
orchestral color ⓘ rhythmic complexity ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Mouvements symphoniques ⓘ |
| placeOfPremiere | Paris ⓘ |
| positionInSeries | 1 ⓘ |
| premiereCity | Paris ⓘ |
| premiereConductor | Serge Koussevitzky ⓘ |
| premiereCountry | France ⓘ |
| scoredFor | orchestra ⓘ |
| style |
20th-century classical music
ⓘ
modernism ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | power and motion of a locomotive ⓘ |
| titleRefersTo |
4-6-2 steam locomotive classification
ⓘ
Pacific-type steam locomotive wheel arrangement ⓘ |
| usesTechnique |
complex rhythmic layering
ⓘ
dense orchestration ⓘ orchestral imitation of mechanical acceleration ⓘ |
| workNumber | Mouvement symphonique no. 1 ⓘ |
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: Pacific 231 Description of subject: Pacific 231 is a famous orchestral work by Swiss composer Arthur Honegger that vividly evokes the power and motion of a steam locomotive.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Pacific 231