Martin West
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Martin West is a British conductor best known for leading the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and widely regarded for his interpretations of ballet repertoire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Martin West canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2271500 — 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: Martin West Context triple: [San Francisco Ballet, musicDirector, Martin West]
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Musa Tersicore
Musa Tersicore is a neoclassical sculpture representing Terpsichore, the Greek muse of dance, housed in the historic Villa Carlotta on Lake Como, Italy.
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Amulius
Amulius is a legendary king of Alba Longa in Roman mythology, known for usurping his brother Numitor’s throne and ordering the exposure of his twin grandnephews Romulus and Remus.
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Herculius
Herculius was the honorific title of the Roman emperor Maximian, associating him with the hero-god Hercules as part of Diocletian’s Tetrarchic ideology.
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Johanus
Johanus is a given name, likely a variant or diminutive of Johan, used as a personal first name in some cultures.
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Bertramus
Bertramus is a Latinized variant of the given name Bertram, historically used in medieval and ecclesiastical contexts.
- 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: Martin West Target entity description: Martin West is a British conductor best known for leading the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and widely regarded for his interpretations of ballet repertoire.
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A.
Musa Tersicore
Musa Tersicore is a neoclassical sculpture representing Terpsichore, the Greek muse of dance, housed in the historic Villa Carlotta on Lake Como, Italy.
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B.
Amulius
Amulius is a legendary king of Alba Longa in Roman mythology, known for usurping his brother Numitor’s throne and ordering the exposure of his twin grandnephews Romulus and Remus.
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C.
Herculius
Herculius was the honorific title of the Roman emperor Maximian, associating him with the hero-god Hercules as part of Diocletian’s Tetrarchic ideology.
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D.
Johanus
Johanus is a given name, likely a variant or diminutive of Johan, used as a personal first name in some cultures.
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E.
Bertramus
Bertramus is a Latinized variant of the given name Bertram, historically used in medieval and ecclesiastical contexts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
conductor
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person ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | San Francisco Ballet ⓘ |
| field | classical music ⓘ |
| genre |
ballet
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classical ⓘ |
| knownFor |
interpretations of ballet repertoire
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leading the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork | performances with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra ⓘ |
| occupation | conductor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | music director of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra ⓘ |
| specialization | ballet music ⓘ |
| workLocation | San Francisco ⓘ |
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: Martin West Description of subject: Martin West is a British conductor best known for leading the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and widely regarded for his interpretations of ballet repertoire.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.