Kontakte
E531878
Kontakte is an influential 1958–60 electroacoustic composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen that explores spatialization and the integration of electronic and instrumental sounds.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kontakte canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5579679 — 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: Kontakte Context triple: [Karlheinz Stockhausen, notableWork, Kontakte]
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A.
Contacts app
The Contacts app is a built-in address book application on Apple devices that stores and manages users’ personal and business contact information.
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B.
Google Contacts
Google Contacts is a contact management service by Google that stores and syncs users’ personal and professional contact information across Google’s apps and devices.
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C.
Contact
Contact is a science fiction novel by Carl Sagan that explores humanity’s first communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence and the intersection of science, faith, and politics.
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D.
Contact
Contact is a 1997 science fiction film, based on Carl Sagan’s novel, that follows a scientist’s first-contact encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence.
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E.
Contact
Contact is a large-scale immersive art installation by Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson that explores perception, light, and spatial experience.
- 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: Kontakte Target entity description: Kontakte is an influential 1958–60 electroacoustic composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen that explores spatialization and the integration of electronic and instrumental sounds.
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A.
Contacts app
The Contacts app is a built-in address book application on Apple devices that stores and manages users’ personal and business contact information.
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B.
Google Contacts
Google Contacts is a contact management service by Google that stores and syncs users’ personal and professional contact information across Google’s apps and devices.
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C.
Contact
Contact is a large-scale immersive art installation by Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson that explores perception, light, and spatial experience.
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D.
Contact
Contact is a science fiction novel by Carl Sagan that explores humanity’s first communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence and the intersection of science, faith, and politics.
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E.
Contact
Contact is a 1997 science fiction film, based on Carl Sagan’s novel, that follows a scientist’s first-contact encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
electroacoustic composition
ⓘ
musical work ⓘ |
| associatedWithInstitution |
West German Radio (WDR) Studio for Electronic Music
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linked to:
WDR Studio for Electronic Music
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| catalogNumber | Nr. 12 ⓘ |
| composer | Karlheinz Stockhausen ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfComposition |
1958
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1959 ⓘ 1960 ⓘ |
| explores |
continuum between rhythm and pitch
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integration of electronic and instrumental sounds ⓘ rotation of sound in space ⓘ spatialization of sound ⓘ |
| followedBy | Carré ⓘ |
| genre |
electronic music
ⓘ
experimental music ⓘ serial music ⓘ tape music ⓘ |
| hasForm | through-composed ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
Kontakte for electronic sounds alone
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Kontakte for electronic sounds, piano and percussion ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of electroacoustic music
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live-electronic performance practice ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | German ⓘ |
| medium |
electronic sounds
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instrumental sounds ⓘ |
| movement | European avant-garde ⓘ |
| notableFor |
integration of live instruments with tape
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pioneering use of 4-channel sound rotation ⓘ |
| partOf | Stockhausen’s spatial music works ⓘ |
| period | post-war avant-garde ⓘ |
| placeOfPremiere | Cologne ⓘ |
| precededBy | Gesang der Jünglinge ⓘ |
| premiered | 1960 ⓘ |
| publisher | Stockhausen-Verlag ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Deutsche Grammophon
ⓘ
Wergo ⓘ |
| scoredFor |
four-channel tape
ⓘ
percussion ⓘ piano ⓘ |
| titleTranslation | Contacts ⓘ |
| usesTechnique |
four-channel spatial projection
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microphonic sound transformation ⓘ serial organization of parameters ⓘ tape manipulation ⓘ |
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: Kontakte Description of subject: Kontakte is an influential 1958–60 electroacoustic composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen that explores spatialization and the integration of electronic and instrumental sounds.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.