Johann Samuel Petri
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Johann Samuel Petri was an 18th-century German composer, organist, and music theorist known for his influential writings on musical pedagogy and performance practice.
All labels observed (1)
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| Johann Samuel Petri canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2477481 — 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: Johann Samuel Petri Context triple: [Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, notableStudent, Johann Samuel Petri]
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A.
Carl Henry Vogt
Carl Henry Vogt was the birth name of American actor Louis Calhern, a prominent character actor of Hollywood’s Golden Age known for his sophisticated and often villainous roles.
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B.
Johann Georg Halske
Johann Georg Halske was a 19th-century German engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the electrical engineering company Siemens.
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C.
Gustav Wilhelm Wolff
Gustav Wilhelm Wolff was a German-born British shipbuilder and politician best known as the co-founder of the Belfast shipbuilding firm Harland and Wolff, which built many famous ocean liners including the RMS Titanic.
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D.
Friedrich Christian Anton Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton Lang, better known as Fritz Lang, was an influential Austrian-German filmmaker renowned for pioneering expressionist cinema and directing classics such as "Metropolis" and "M."
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E.
Georg-Hans Reinhardt
Georg-Hans Reinhardt was a German Wehrmacht colonel general who commanded Army Group Centre on the Eastern Front during World War II and was later convicted as a war criminal.
- 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: Johann Samuel Petri Target entity description: Johann Samuel Petri was an 18th-century German composer, organist, and music theorist known for his influential writings on musical pedagogy and performance practice.
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A.
Carl Henry Vogt
Carl Henry Vogt was the birth name of American actor Louis Calhern, a prominent character actor of Hollywood’s Golden Age known for his sophisticated and often villainous roles.
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B.
Johann Georg Halske
Johann Georg Halske was a 19th-century German engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the electrical engineering company Siemens.
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C.
Gustav Wilhelm Wolff
Gustav Wilhelm Wolff was a German-born British shipbuilder and politician best known as the co-founder of the Belfast shipbuilding firm Harland and Wolff, which built many famous ocean liners including the RMS Titanic.
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D.
Friedrich Christian Anton Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton Lang, better known as Fritz Lang, was an influential Austrian-German filmmaker renowned for pioneering expressionist cinema and directing classics such as "Metropolis" and "M."
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E.
Georg-Hans Reinhardt
Georg-Hans Reinhardt was a German Wehrmacht colonel general who commanded Army Group Centre on the Eastern Front during World War II and was later convicted as a war criminal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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human ⓘ music pedagogue ⓘ music theorist ⓘ organist ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence | German-speaking Europe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German ⓘ |
| familyName | Petri ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music pedagogy
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music theory ⓘ performance practice ⓘ |
| genre | classical music ⓘ |
| givenName |
Johann
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Samuel ⓘ |
| hasRole |
church organist
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music teacher ⓘ |
| influenced |
later music pedagogues
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later performance practice scholars ⓘ |
| movement | 18th-century German music ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | German ⓘ |
| notableFor |
writings on musical pedagogy
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writings on performance practice ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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music pedagogue ⓘ music theorist ⓘ organist ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| workLocation | Germany ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Johann Samuel Petri Description of subject: Johann Samuel Petri was an 18th-century German composer, organist, and music theorist known for his influential writings on musical pedagogy and performance practice.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.