Thomas Hampson
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Thomas Hampson is an acclaimed American baritone renowned for his opera performances and song recitals on major international stages.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas Hampson canonical | 10 |
| Thomas Hampson (baritone) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1845461 — 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 Hampson Context triple: [Curtis Institute of Music, hasNotableAlumni, Thomas Hampson]
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A.
Michael Crawford
Michael Crawford is an English actor and singer best known for his role in the sitcom "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em" and for originating the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "The Phantom of the Opera."
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B.
John Guleserian
John Guleserian is an American cinematographer known for his work on independent films and romantic dramas, including the acclaimed feature "Like Crazy."
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C.
Philip Baker Hall
Philip Baker Hall was an American character actor renowned for his intense, understated performances in films like "Magnolia," "Boogie Nights," and "Hard Eight," as well as memorable television roles including his iconic turn as library cop Lt. Bookman on "Seinfeld."
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D.
Ed Bullins
Ed Bullins was an influential American playwright whose politically charged, experimental works made him a central voice in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
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E.
William DuVall
William DuVall is an American musician best known as the co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Alice in Chains, succeeding Layne Staley.
- 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 Hampson Target entity description: Thomas Hampson is an acclaimed American baritone renowned for his opera performances and song recitals on major international stages.
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A.
Michael Crawford
Michael Crawford is an English actor and singer best known for his role in the sitcom "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em" and for originating the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "The Phantom of the Opera."
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B.
John Guleserian
John Guleserian is an American cinematographer known for his work on independent films and romantic dramas, including the acclaimed feature "Like Crazy."
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C.
Philip Baker Hall
Philip Baker Hall was an American character actor renowned for his intense, understated performances in films like "Magnolia," "Boogie Nights," and "Hard Eight," as well as memorable television roles including his iconic turn as library cop Lt. Bookman on "Seinfeld."
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D.
Ed Bullins
Ed Bullins was an influential American playwright whose politically charged, experimental works made him a central voice in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
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E.
William DuVall
William DuVall is an American musician best known as the co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Alice in Chains, succeeding Layne Staley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American opera singer
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baritone ⓘ human ⓘ opera singer ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Hampson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
classical singing
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vocal pedagogy ⓘ |
| genre |
Lieder
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classical music ⓘ opera ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
international concert tours
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masterclasses ⓘ recording projects ⓘ |
| hasPerformedAt |
Bavarian State Opera
ⓘ
Carnegie Hall ⓘ La Scala ⓘ Lyric Opera of Chicago ⓘ Metropolitan Opera ⓘ Royal Opera House ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Salzburg Festival ⓘ San Francisco Opera ⓘ Vienna State Opera ⓘ Wigmore Hall ⓘ |
| hasRecorded |
Lieder albums
ⓘ
opera arias ⓘ song recitals ⓘ |
| hasRole | opera baritone ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance |
English
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French ⓘ German ⓘ Italian ⓘ |
| name | Thomas Hampson ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
interpretations of German Lieder
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opera performances ⓘ song recitals ⓘ |
| notableWork |
performances in Mahler song cycles
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performances in Verdi operas ⓘ |
| occupation |
concert singer
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opera singer ⓘ voice teacher ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| vocalType | baritone ⓘ |
| voiceType | lyric baritone ⓘ |
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 Hampson Description of subject: Thomas Hampson is an acclaimed American baritone renowned for his opera performances and song recitals on major international stages.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Fischer-Dieskau
linked to: Thomas Hampson
subject linked to:
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