Ninette de Valois
E299615
Irish-born British person
ballet choreographer
ballet company founder
ballet dancer
ballet director
choreographer
human
Ninette de Valois was an influential Irish-born British dancer, choreographer, and director who played a pivotal role in establishing British ballet as a major art form.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ninette de Valois canonical | 9 |
| Marie Rambert | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2804947 — 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: Ninette de Valois Context triple: [The Royal Ballet, foundedBy, Ninette de Valois]
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A.
Renée Victor
Renée Victor is an American actress known for her work in film, television, and voice acting, including roles in projects like the animated feature "Coco."
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B.
Armande Béjart
Armande Béjart was a 17th-century French actress of the Comédie-Française, known for her prominent stage career and her controversial marriage to the playwright Molière.
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C.
Eugénie Savoye
Eugénie Savoye was a French client and member of the Savoye family who commissioned Le Corbusier to design the iconic modernist Villa Savoye.
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D.
Blanche Hoschedé
Blanche Hoschedé was a French painter and the stepdaughter and daughter-in-law of Claude Monet, known for her close association with the Impressionist circle.
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E.
Régine Chassagne
Régine Chassagne is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the indie rock band Arcade Fire.
- 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: Ninette de Valois Target entity description: Ninette de Valois was an influential Irish-born British dancer, choreographer, and director who played a pivotal role in establishing British ballet as a major art form.
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A.
Renée Victor
Renée Victor is an American actress known for her work in film, television, and voice acting, including roles in projects like the animated feature "Coco."
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B.
Armande Béjart
Armande Béjart was a 17th-century French actress of the Comédie-Française, known for her prominent stage career and her controversial marriage to the playwright Molière.
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C.
Eugénie Savoye
Eugénie Savoye was a French client and member of the Savoye family who commissioned Le Corbusier to design the iconic modernist Villa Savoye.
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D.
Blanche Hoschedé
Blanche Hoschedé was a French painter and the stepdaughter and daughter-in-law of Claude Monet, known for her close association with the Impressionist circle.
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E.
Régine Chassagne
Régine Chassagne is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the indie rock band Arcade Fire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Ninette de Valois Description of subject: Ninette de Valois was an influential Irish-born British dancer, choreographer, and director who played a pivotal role in establishing British ballet as a major art form.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ninette de Valois