Carlos Chávez
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Carlos Chávez was a prominent 20th-century Mexican composer, conductor, and music educator known for integrating indigenous and folk elements into modern classical music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Carlos Chávez canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1680677 — 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: Carlos Chávez Context triple: [Chávez, hasNotableBearer, Carlos Chávez]
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A.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos was a pioneering Brazilian composer whose innovative fusion of European classical traditions with Brazilian folk and popular music made him a central figure in 20th-century music.
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B.
Isaac Albéniz
Isaac Albéniz was a Spanish composer and virtuoso pianist best known for his piano works inspired by Iberian folk music, such as the suite "Iberia."
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C.
Ernest Bloch
Ernest Bloch was a Swiss-born American composer known for his deeply expressive, often Judaically inspired works that bridged late Romanticism and early modernism.
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D.
Charles Yma Vivanco
Charles Yma Vivanco is known primarily as the son of the renowned Peruvian soprano and world music icon Yma Sumac.
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E.
Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison was an American composer known for blending Western classical traditions with non-Western musical influences, especially Indonesian gamelan.
- 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: Carlos Chávez Target entity description: Carlos Chávez was a prominent 20th-century Mexican composer, conductor, and music educator known for integrating indigenous and folk elements into modern classical music.
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A.
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Heitor Villa-Lobos was a pioneering Brazilian composer whose innovative fusion of European classical traditions with Brazilian folk and popular music made him a central figure in 20th-century music.
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B.
Isaac Albéniz
Isaac Albéniz was a Spanish composer and virtuoso pianist best known for his piano works inspired by Iberian folk music, such as the suite "Iberia."
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C.
Ernest Bloch
Ernest Bloch was a Swiss-born American composer known for his deeply expressive, often Judaically inspired works that bridged late Romanticism and early modernism.
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D.
Charles Yma Vivanco
Charles Yma Vivanco is known primarily as the son of the renowned Peruvian soprano and world music icon Yma Sumac.
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E.
Lou Harrison
Lou Harrison was an American composer known for blending Western classical traditions with non-Western musical influences, especially Indonesian gamelan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mexican composer
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composer ⓘ conductor ⓘ human ⓘ music educator ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Mexico ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1899-06-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1978-08-02 ⓘ |
| employer |
Orquesta Sinfónica de México
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linked to:
Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional
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| familyName | Chávez ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music composition
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music education ⓘ orchestral conducting ⓘ |
| genre |
ballet music
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chamber music ⓘ classical music ⓘ film score ⓘ orchestral music ⓘ |
| givenName | Carlos ⓘ |
| hasPart | catalog of symphonies, ballets, chamber works, and piano pieces ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
European modernism
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Igor Stravinsky ⓘ Mexican folk music ⓘ indigenous Mexican music ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Spanish ⓘ |
| movement |
20th-century classical music
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modernism ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Blas Galindo
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Eduardo Mata ⓘ Héctor Quintanar ⓘ José Pablo Moncayo ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Caballos de vapor
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Piano Sonata No. 3 ⓘ Sinfonía India ⓘ Sinfonía No. 3 ⓘ Sinfonía No. 4 ⓘ Sinfonía No. 5 ⓘ Sinfonía de Antígona ⓘ Toccata for percussion instruments ⓘ Xochipilli-Macuilxóchitl ⓘ
linked to:
Xochipilli
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| occupation |
composer
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cultural administrator ⓘ music critic ⓘ music educator ⓘ orchestra conductor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Mexico City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Mexico City ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
director of Orquesta Sinfónica de México
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director of the National Conservatory of Music of Mexico ⓘ head of the National Institute of Fine Arts (Mexico) ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Referenced by (17)
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