Silk Road Ensemble
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Silk Road Ensemble is a multicultural musical collective founded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma that blends classical, folk, and contemporary traditions from along the historic Silk Road.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Silk Road Ensemble canonical | 33 |
| Silkroad Ensemble | 6 |
| The Silk Road Ensemble | 3 |
| Silk Road Ensemble discography | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T249757 — 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: Silk Road Ensemble Context triple: [Yo-Yo Ma, notableWork, Silk Road Ensemble]
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A.
The Roots
The Roots are a critically acclaimed American hip hop band from Philadelphia known for their live instrumentation and role as the house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
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B.
Group of Five
The Group of Five refers to the five NCAA Division I FBS football conferences outside the traditional power conferences, generally considered to have less financial resources, media exposure, and competitive depth.
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The Drinkard Singers
The Drinkard Singers were an influential American gospel group from Newark, New Jersey, known for their powerful harmonies and for launching the careers of several prominent soul and gospel artists.
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D.
Nazareth
Nazareth is a historic town in modern-day Israel best known as the childhood home of Jesus and a major center of Christian pilgrimage.
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E.
Gamelan
Gamelan is a traditional Indonesian ensemble music form, primarily from Java and Bali, featuring tuned percussion instruments such as metallophones, gongs, and drums played in intricate, interlocking patterns.
- 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: Silk Road Ensemble Target entity description: Silk Road Ensemble is a multicultural musical collective founded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma that blends classical, folk, and contemporary traditions from along the historic Silk Road.
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A.
The Roots
The Roots are a critically acclaimed American hip hop band from Philadelphia known for their live instrumentation and role as the house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
-
B.
Group of Five
The Group of Five refers to the five NCAA Division I FBS football conferences outside the traditional power conferences, generally considered to have less financial resources, media exposure, and competitive depth.
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C.
The Drinkard Singers
The Drinkard Singers were an influential American gospel group from Newark, New Jersey, known for their powerful harmonies and for launching the careers of several prominent soul and gospel artists.
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D.
Nazareth
Nazareth is a historic town in modern-day Israel best known as the childhood home of Jesus and a major center of Christian pilgrimage.
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E.
Gamelan
Gamelan is a traditional Indonesian ensemble music form, primarily from Java and Bali, featuring tuned percussion instruments such as metallophones, gongs, and drums played in intricate, interlocking patterns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Silk Road Ensemble Description of subject: Silk Road Ensemble is a multicultural musical collective founded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma that blends classical, folk, and contemporary traditions from along the historic Silk Road.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Yo-Yo
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Yo-Yo
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"Songs of Joy & Peace" album
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Galicia bagpipe player Cristina Pato
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