Carousel (A Dance)
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Carousel (A Dance) is a ballet by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon that reimagines themes and music from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical "Carousel" in a contemporary dance setting.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carousel (A Dance) canonical | 4 |
| Carousel: A Dance | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10595813 — 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: Carousel (A Dance) Context triple: [Christopher Wheeldon, notableWork, Carousel (A Dance)]
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A.
The Carousel Waltz
The Carousel Waltz is the sweeping orchestral prelude that opens the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel," renowned for its lush melodies and evocative depiction of a bustling fairground.
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B.
Waltz
Waltz is a surname most prominently associated with Kenneth N. Waltz, a leading American political scientist known for his work in international relations theory.
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C.
The Skeleton Dance
The Skeleton Dance is a 1929 black-and-white animated short film from Disney’s Silly Symphonies series, famous for its macabre yet humorous depiction of skeletons dancing in a graveyard synchronized to music.
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D.
I Came to Dance
"I Came to Dance" is a music album best known for its title track of the same name.
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E.
"Rhythm Is a Dancer"
"Rhythm Is a Dancer" is a 1992 Eurodance hit by German group Snap! that became one of the genre’s most iconic and internationally successful singles.
- 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: Carousel (A Dance) Target entity description: Carousel (A Dance) is a ballet by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon that reimagines themes and music from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical "Carousel" in a contemporary dance setting.
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A.
The Carousel Waltz
The Carousel Waltz is the sweeping orchestral prelude that opens the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel," renowned for its lush melodies and evocative depiction of a bustling fairground.
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B.
Waltz
Waltz is a surname most prominently associated with Kenneth N. Waltz, a leading American political scientist known for his work in international relations theory.
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C.
The Skeleton Dance
The Skeleton Dance is a 1929 black-and-white animated short film from Disney’s Silly Symphonies series, famous for its macabre yet humorous depiction of skeletons dancing in a graveyard synchronized to music.
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D.
I Came to Dance
"I Came to Dance" is a music album best known for its title track of the same name.
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E.
"Rhythm Is a Dancer"
"Rhythm Is a Dancer" is a 1992 Eurodance hit by German group Snap! that became one of the genre’s most iconic and internationally successful singles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ballet
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choreographer ⓘ contemporary ballet ⓘ stage musical ⓘ |
| artForm | dance ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Carousel (musical)
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linked to:
Carousel (1945 musical)
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| choreographer | Christopher Wheeldon ⓘ |
| composer | Richard Rodgers ⓘ |
| composerOfSourceMusic | Richard Rodgers ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| createdBy | Christopher Wheeldon ⓘ |
| genre |
ballet
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contemporary dance ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle |
Carousel: A Dance
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linked to:
Carousel (A Dance)
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| hasTheme |
community and social dynamics
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emotional conflict ⓘ reimagining of classic musical theatre ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Carousel (A Dance) ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Carousel (musical)
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linked to:
Carousel (1945 musical)
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| languageOfSourceLyrics | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Oscar Hammerstein II ⓘ |
| lyricistOfSourceMusic | Oscar Hammerstein II ⓘ |
| movementStyle |
classical ballet technique
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contemporary ballet vocabulary ⓘ |
| notableFor |
abstract treatment of narrative from Carousel (musical)
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contemporary reinterpretation of Rodgers and Hammerstein score ⓘ |
| notableWork | Carousel (A Dance) ⓘ |
| partOf | Christopher Wheeldon repertory ⓘ |
| usesMusicFrom |
Carousel (musical)
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linked to:
Carousel (1945 musical)
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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: Carousel (A Dance) Description of subject: Carousel (A Dance) is a ballet by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon that reimagines themes and music from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical "Carousel" in a contemporary dance setting.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.