G major
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G major is a common major key in Western music, known for its bright, open sound and frequent use in folk, classical, and popular compositions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| G major canonical | 9 |
| G major (Dvořák) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5920707 — 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: G major Context triple: [Uncle John's Band, hasMusicalKey, G major]
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A.
F major
F major is a musical key characterized by one flat in its key signature and a warm, pastoral sound commonly used in classical and popular music.
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B.
B major
B major is a bright, five-sharp major key commonly used in classical and popular music for its resonant, expansive sound.
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C.
E-flat major
E-flat major is a musical key characterized by three flats, often associated with warm, lyrical, and noble-sounding compositions in classical and popular music.
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D.
A-flat major
A-flat major is a warm, lyrical key signature often associated with expressive, singing melodies in classical music.
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E.
E minor
E minor is a natural minor musical key centered on the note E, commonly used in Western music for its dark yet expressive character.
- 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: G major Target entity description: G major is a common major key in Western music, known for its bright, open sound and frequent use in folk, classical, and popular compositions.
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A.
F major
F major is a musical key characterized by one flat in its key signature and a warm, pastoral sound commonly used in classical and popular music.
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B.
B major
B major is a bright, five-sharp major key commonly used in classical and popular music for its resonant, expansive sound.
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C.
E-flat major
E-flat major is a musical key characterized by three flats, often associated with warm, lyrical, and noble-sounding compositions in classical and popular music.
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D.
A-flat major
A-flat major is a warm, lyrical key signature often associated with expressive, singing melodies in classical music.
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E.
E minor
E minor is a natural minor musical key centered on the note E, commonly used in Western music for its dark yet expressive character.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
major key
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musical key ⓘ |
| belongsToSystem | Western tonal music ⓘ |
| circleOfFifthsNeighbor |
C major
ⓘ
D major ⓘ |
| commonFor |
guitar repertoire
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orchestral music ⓘ piano music ⓘ violin repertoire ⓘ vocal music ⓘ |
| commonlyTaughtAs |
beginner key for string instruments
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beginner key for wind instruments ⓘ |
| diatonicChord |
A minor (ii)
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B minor (iii) ⓘ C major (IV) ⓘ D major (V) ⓘ E minor (vi) ⓘ F♯ diminished (vii°) ⓘ G major (I) ⓘ |
| dominantKey | D major ⓘ |
| enharmonicKeySignatureEquivalent | E minor ⓘ |
| keySignatureAccidentals | 1 sharp ⓘ |
| keySignatureSharp | F♯ ⓘ |
| leadingToneKey | F♯ diminished ⓘ |
| mediantKey | B minor ⓘ |
| modeType | Ionian mode ⓘ |
| notationSystem | staff notation ⓘ |
| parallelMinor | G minor ⓘ |
| pitchClassSet | {G, A, B, C, D, E, F♯} ⓘ |
| relativeMinor | E minor ⓘ |
| scaleDegree1 | G ⓘ |
| scaleDegree2 | A ⓘ |
| scaleDegree3 | B ⓘ |
| scaleDegree4 | C ⓘ |
| scaleDegree5 | D ⓘ |
| scaleDegree6 | E ⓘ |
| scaleDegree7 | F♯ ⓘ |
| subdominantKey | C major ⓘ |
| submediantKey | E minor ⓘ |
| tonicNote | G ⓘ |
| typicalAffectiveCharacterization | cheerful ⓘ |
| typicalTempoCharacterization | bright ⓘ |
| usedInGenre |
baroque music
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classical music ⓘ film music ⓘ folk music ⓘ popular music ⓘ romantic-era music ⓘ |
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: G major Description of subject: G major is a common major key in Western music, known for its bright, open sound and frequent use in folk, classical, and popular compositions.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
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