Virginia Opera
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Virginia Opera is a professional opera company based in Virginia, known for producing a diverse repertoire of operatic works and serving as a major cultural institution in the region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Virginia Opera canonical | 2 |
| Virginia Opera Association | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6623722 — 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: Virginia Opera Context triple: [City of Norfolk, hasCulturalInstitution, Virginia Opera]
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Boston Opera Company
The Boston Opera Company was an early 20th-century American opera company based in Boston, known for staging grand opera productions and contributing to the city’s cultural life.
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Cincinnati Opera
Cincinnati Opera is a major American opera company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, known for its long history, summer festival seasons, and productions of both classic and contemporary works.
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Philadelphia Opera Company
The Philadelphia Opera Company was an early 20th-century American opera company founded and run by impresario Oscar Hammerstein I, known for presenting grand opera productions in Philadelphia.
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Washington National Opera
Washington National Opera is a major American opera company based in Washington, D.C., known for its full-scale productions, educational programs, and role as a leading cultural institution in the nation’s capital.
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The Dallas Opera
The Dallas Opera is a major American opera company based in Dallas, Texas, known for its high-quality productions and contributions to the cultural life of the region.
- 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: Virginia Opera Target entity description: Virginia Opera is a professional opera company based in Virginia, known for producing a diverse repertoire of operatic works and serving as a major cultural institution in the region.
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A.
Boston Opera Company
The Boston Opera Company was an early 20th-century American opera company based in Boston, known for staging grand opera productions and contributing to the city’s cultural life.
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B.
Cincinnati Opera
Cincinnati Opera is a major American opera company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, known for its long history, summer festival seasons, and productions of both classic and contemporary works.
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C.
Philadelphia Opera Company
The Philadelphia Opera Company was an early 20th-century American opera company founded and run by impresario Oscar Hammerstein I, known for presenting grand opera productions in Philadelphia.
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D.
Washington National Opera
Washington National Opera is a major American opera company based in Washington, D.C., known for its full-scale productions, educational programs, and role as a leading cultural institution in the nation’s capital.
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The Dallas Opera
The Dallas Opera is a major American opera company based in Dallas, Texas, known for its high-quality productions and contributions to the cultural life of the region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Virginia Opera Description of subject: Virginia Opera is a professional opera company based in Virginia, known for producing a diverse repertoire of operatic works and serving as a major cultural institution in the region.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Virginia Opera