Thomas Adès
E155550
Thomas Adès is a British composer, pianist, and conductor renowned for his innovative contemporary classical works and international acclaim.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas Adès canonical | 10 |
| Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1356604 — 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: Thomas Adès Context triple: [Royal College of Music, hasNotableAlumni, Thomas Adès]
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A.
George Benjamin
George Benjamin is a British composer and conductor renowned for his meticulously crafted contemporary classical works and influential contributions to modern opera.
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B.
Harrison Birtwistle
Harrison Birtwistle was a prominent British contemporary composer known for his complex, modernist orchestral and operatic works.
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C.
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was a prominent 20th-century British composer and conductor, known for his modernist works and for serving as Master of the Queen’s Music.
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D.
Gordon Jacob
Gordon Jacob was a 20th-century English composer and orchestrator known for his wind band works, film scores, and ceremonial music for major state occasions.
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E.
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Jóhann Jóhannsson was an Icelandic composer and musician renowned for his atmospheric, minimalist film scores and experimental solo works.
- 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: Thomas Adès Target entity description: Thomas Adès is a British composer, pianist, and conductor renowned for his innovative contemporary classical works and international acclaim.
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A.
George Benjamin
George Benjamin is a British composer and conductor renowned for his meticulously crafted contemporary classical works and influential contributions to modern opera.
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B.
Harrison Birtwistle
Harrison Birtwistle was a prominent British contemporary composer known for his complex, modernist orchestral and operatic works.
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C.
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was a prominent 20th-century British composer and conductor, known for his modernist works and for serving as Master of the Queen’s Music.
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D.
Gordon Jacob
Gordon Jacob was a 20th-century English composer and orchestrator known for his wind band works, film scores, and ceremonial music for major state occasions.
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E.
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Jóhann Jóhannsson was an Icelandic composer and musician renowned for his atmospheric, minimalist film scores and experimental solo works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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: Thomas Adès Description of subject: Thomas Adès is a British composer, pianist, and conductor renowned for his innovative contemporary classical works and international acclaim.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Ivors Classical Awards (formerly British Composer Awards)
linked to: Thomas Adès
subject linked to:
opera "The Tempest" by Thomas Adès
subject linked to:
opera "The Tempest" by Thomas Adès