Yo-Yo Ma
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Yo-Yo Ma is a world-renowned American cellist celebrated for his virtuosity, cross-cultural collaborations, and efforts to promote peace and global understanding through music.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yo-Yo Ma canonical | 221 |
| Yo-Yo Ma discography | 2 |
| Yo-Yo Ma and Friends | 1 |
| Yo-Yo Ma – cellist | 1 |
| Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Mark O’Connor | 1 |
| cellist Yo-Yo Ma | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T59324 — 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: Yo-Yo Ma Context triple: [UN Messenger of Peace, notableHolder, Yo-Yo Ma]
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Herbert von Karajan
Herbert von Karajan was a renowned 20th-century Austrian conductor, best known for his long tenure with the Berlin Philharmonic and influential recordings of the classical repertoire.
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B.
J. Erik Jonsson
J. Erik Jonsson was an American businessman, co-founder of Texas Instruments, and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas and was recognized for his significant contributions to public welfare and science.
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C.
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom is an American singer-songwriter and harpist known for her intricate compositions, poetic lyrics, and distinctive vocal style.
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D.
Georges Longy
Georges Longy was a prominent French-born oboist and conductor best known for his influential role in Boston’s musical life and for founding the Longy School of Music.
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E.
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong was an influential American jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader whose innovative playing and distinctive gravelly voice helped shape modern jazz and popular music.
- 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: Yo-Yo Ma Target entity description: Yo-Yo Ma is a world-renowned American cellist celebrated for his virtuosity, cross-cultural collaborations, and efforts to promote peace and global understanding through music.
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A.
Herbert von Karajan
Herbert von Karajan was a renowned 20th-century Austrian conductor, best known for his long tenure with the Berlin Philharmonic and influential recordings of the classical repertoire.
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B.
J. Erik Jonsson
J. Erik Jonsson was an American businessman, co-founder of Texas Instruments, and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas and was recognized for his significant contributions to public welfare and science.
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C.
Joanna Newsom
Joanna Newsom is an American singer-songwriter and harpist known for her intricate compositions, poetic lyrics, and distinctive vocal style.
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D.
Langche Zeng
Langche Zeng is a political scientist and quantitative methodologist known for his collaborative work with Gary King on statistical methods in social science research.
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E.
Georges Longy
Georges Longy was a prominent French-born oboist and conductor best known for his influential role in Boston’s musical life and for founding the Longy School of Music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (87)
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: Yo-Yo Ma Description of subject: Yo-Yo Ma is a world-renowned American cellist celebrated for his virtuosity, cross-cultural collaborations, and efforts to promote peace and global understanding through music.
Referenced by (227)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
1712 Stradivarius cello "Davidov" (formerly used)
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"Appalachian Journey" album
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"Appalachian Journey" album
subject linked to:
"Appalachian Journey" album
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"Appalachian Journey" album
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"Songs of Joy & Peace" album
subject linked to:
"Songs of Joy & Peace" album
subject linked to:
"Songs of Joy & Peace" album
subject linked to:
"Songs of Joy & Peace" album
linked to: Yo-Yo Ma
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"The Goat Rodeo Sessions" album
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"The Goat Rodeo Sessions" album
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