Jooss
E930161
ballet
ballet choreographer
choreographer
family name
person
pioneer of dance theatre
pioneer of modern dance
surname
Jooss is a German surname most notably associated with Kurt Jooss, a pioneering choreographer in modern dance and dance theatre.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jooss canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11524502 — 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: Jooss Context triple: [Kurt Jooss, familyName, Jooss]
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A.
Joos
Joos is a given name and surname of Dutch and Germanic origin, used both historically and in contemporary contexts.
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B.
Anton Kappel
Anton Kappel was a military commander known for his leadership role on the Eastern Front during the Russian Civil War.
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C.
de Jasso
de Jasso is the family name of Francis Xavier, the 16th-century Spanish Jesuit missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus.
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D.
Johannes Kreisler
Johannes Kreisler is a fictional, eccentric musician created by E. T. A. Hoffmann, often portrayed as a tormented Romantic artist and serving as an inspiration for various musical and literary works.
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E.
Ten Bosse
Ten Bosse is a notable hill in Belgium, known primarily as a climb featured in regional cycling routes and races.
- 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: Jooss Target entity description: Jooss is a German surname most notably associated with Kurt Jooss, a pioneering choreographer in modern dance and dance theatre.
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A.
Joos
Joos is a given name and surname of Dutch and Germanic origin, used both historically and in contemporary contexts.
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B.
Anton Kappel
Anton Kappel was a military commander known for his leadership role on the Eastern Front during the Russian Civil War.
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C.
de Jasso
de Jasso is the family name of Francis Xavier, the 16th-century Spanish Jesuit missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus.
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D.
Johannes Kreisler
Johannes Kreisler is a fictional, eccentric musician created by E. T. A. Hoffmann, often portrayed as a tormented Romantic artist and serving as an inspiration for various musical and literary works.
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E.
Ten Bosse
Ten Bosse is a notable hill in Belgium, known primarily as a climb featured in regional cycling routes and races.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ballet
ⓘ
ballet choreographer ⓘ choreographer ⓘ family name ⓘ person ⓘ pioneer of dance theatre ⓘ pioneer of modern dance ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| choreographer | Kurt Jooss ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Germany
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ |
| familyName | Jooss ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
dance
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dance theatre ⓘ modern dance ⓘ |
| genre |
anti-war ballet
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expressionist dance ⓘ |
| givenName | Kurt ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
death
ⓘ
politics ⓘ war ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Kurt Jooss ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Green Table ⓘ |
| usedAs | German surname ⓘ |
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: Jooss Description of subject: Jooss is a German surname most notably associated with Kurt Jooss, a pioneering choreographer in modern dance and dance theatre.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Jooss