Kurt Jooss
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Kurt Jooss was a pioneering German choreographer and dance teacher, best known for blending classical ballet with modern dance and for his influential anti-war ballet "The Green Table."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kurt Jooss canonical | 24 |
| Pina Bausch | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2498463 — 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: Kurt Jooss Context triple: [Yat Malmgren, studentOf, Kurt Jooss]
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A.
Oskar Schlemmer
Oskar Schlemmer was a German painter, sculptor, designer, and choreographer best known for his avant-garde stage works and his influential role in developing the Bauhaus school’s theater and performance art.
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B.
Rudolf Laban
Rudolf Laban was a pioneering dance theorist and movement analyst whose work laid the foundations for modern movement notation and movement psychology.
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C.
Ernst Busch
Ernst Busch was a German field marshal of the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded Army Group Centre on the Eastern Front.
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D.
Ernst Busch
Ernst Busch was a German actor and singer known for his performances of political and workers’ songs, particularly those associated with the socialist and communist movements in 20th-century Germany.
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E.
Léonide Massine
Léonide Massine was a prominent 20th-century choreographer and dancer known for his innovative narrative ballets and influential work in modernizing ballet theatre.
- 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: Kurt Jooss Target entity description: Kurt Jooss was a pioneering German choreographer and dance teacher, best known for blending classical ballet with modern dance and for his influential anti-war ballet "The Green Table."
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A.
Oskar Schlemmer
Oskar Schlemmer was a German painter, sculptor, designer, and choreographer best known for his avant-garde stage works and his influential role in developing the Bauhaus school’s theater and performance art.
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B.
Rudolf Laban
Rudolf Laban was a pioneering dance theorist and movement analyst whose work laid the foundations for modern movement notation and movement psychology.
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C.
Ernst Busch
Ernst Busch was a German field marshal of the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded Army Group Centre on the Eastern Front.
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D.
Ernst Busch
Ernst Busch was a German actor and singer known for his performances of political and workers’ songs, particularly those associated with the socialist and communist movements in 20th-century Germany.
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E.
Léonide Massine
Léonide Massine was a prominent 20th-century choreographer and dancer known for his innovative narrative ballets and influential work in modernizing ballet theatre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Kurt Jooss Description of subject: Kurt Jooss was a pioneering German choreographer and dance teacher, best known for blending classical ballet with modern dance and for his influential anti-war ballet "The Green Table."
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Kurt Jooss
subject linked to:
Jooss
subject linked to:
The Prodigal Son
subject linked to:
The Prodigal Son
subject linked to:
anti-war ballet The Green Table