Alexander Goehr
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Alexander Goehr is a British composer and influential composition teacher associated with the post-war avant-garde and the Manchester School.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alexander Goehr canonical | 3 |
| Walter Goehr | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6575487 — 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: Alexander Goehr Context triple: [Thomas Adès, studiedUnder, Alexander Goehr]
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A.
Harrison Birtwistle
Harrison Birtwistle was a prominent British contemporary composer known for his complex, modernist orchestral and operatic works.
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B.
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was a prominent 20th-century British composer and conductor, known for his modernist works and for serving as Master of the Queen’s Music.
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C.
Karl Jenkins
Karl Jenkins is a Welsh composer and musician best known for his crossover classical works such as "Adiemus" and "The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace."
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D.
George Benjamin
George Benjamin is a British composer and conductor renowned for his meticulously crafted contemporary classical works and influential contributions to modern opera.
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E.
Gérard Larcher
Gérard Larcher is a French conservative politician who has long served as President of the Senate and is one of the most influential figures in France’s upper house of Parliament.
- 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: Alexander Goehr Target entity description: Alexander Goehr is a British composer and influential composition teacher associated with the post-war avant-garde and the Manchester School.
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A.
Harrison Birtwistle
Harrison Birtwistle was a prominent British contemporary composer known for his complex, modernist orchestral and operatic works.
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B.
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was a prominent 20th-century British composer and conductor, known for his modernist works and for serving as Master of the Queen’s Music.
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C.
Karl Jenkins
Karl Jenkins is a Welsh composer and musician best known for his crossover classical works such as "Adiemus" and "The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace."
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D.
George Benjamin
George Benjamin is a British composer and conductor renowned for his meticulously crafted contemporary classical works and influential contributions to modern opera.
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E.
Gérard Larcher
Gérard Larcher is a French conservative politician who has long served as President of the Senate and is one of the most influential figures in France’s upper house of Parliament.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
ⓘ
human ⓘ music educator ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
BBC
ⓘ
Manchester School (music) ⓘ |
| awardReceived | CBE ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1932-08-10 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Berlin ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Germany
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| describedAs | British composer and influential composition teacher associated with the post-war avant-garde and the Manchester School ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Paris Conservatoire
ⓘ
linked to:
Conservatoire de Paris
Royal Manchester College of Music ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Northern College of Music
|
| employer |
University of Cambridge
ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridge University
University of Leeds ⓘ |
| familyName | Goehr ⓘ |
| father |
Walter Goehr
ⓘ
linked to:
Alexander Goehr
|
| fieldOfWork |
contemporary classical music
ⓘ
music composition ⓘ |
| genre |
chamber music
ⓘ
contemporary classical music ⓘ opera ⓘ orchestral music ⓘ |
| givenName | Alexander ⓘ |
| influenced | British composers of the late 20th century ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Arnold Schoenberg
ⓘ
Olivier Messiaen ⓘ Second Viennese School ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| memberOf | Manchester School (music) ⓘ |
| movement | post-war avant-garde ⓘ |
| name | Alexander Goehr ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
George Benjamin
ⓘ
Harrison Birtwistle ⓘ Julian Anderson ⓘ
linked to:
George Benjamin
|
| notableWork |
Arden Must Die
ⓘ
Behold the Sun ⓘ Little Symphony, Op. 15 ⓘ Sutter’s Gold ⓘ Symphony in One Movement ⓘ The Death of Moses ⓘ
linked to:
Death of Moses
|
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
university teacher ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge
ⓘ
Professor of Music at the University of Leeds ⓘ |
| residence | Cambridge ⓘ |
| studiedUnder | Olivier Messiaen ⓘ |
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: Alexander Goehr Description of subject: Alexander Goehr is a British composer and influential composition teacher associated with the post-war avant-garde and the Manchester School.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Alexander Goehr
linked to: Alexander Goehr