Roy Harris
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Roy Harris was an influential 20th-century American composer best known for his symphonies that drew on folk traditions and a distinctly national musical style.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roy Harris canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6575540 — 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: Roy Harris Context triple: [Nadia Boulanger, notableStudent, Roy Harris]
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A.
Roger Henderson
Roger Henderson is a central character in the 1961 romantic comedy film "The Pleasure of His Company," known as a charming but unreliable father whose return disrupts his daughter's impending marriage.
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B.
William Alwyn
William Alwyn was a 20th-century British composer and conductor known for his prolific film scores and concert works.
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C.
Kenneth Hargreaves
Kenneth Hargreaves was a British public servant and ceremonial official who notably served as Lord Lieutenant in Yorkshire.
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D.
Eric Coates
Eric Coates was a British computer scientist known for his involvement in early information retrieval and classification research, including work with the influential Classification Research Group.
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E.
Eric Coates
Eric Coates was a British composer best known for his light orchestral music and popular marches that became widely familiar through radio and film.
- 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: Roy Harris Target entity description: Roy Harris was an influential 20th-century American composer best known for his symphonies that drew on folk traditions and a distinctly national musical style.
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A.
Roger Henderson
Roger Henderson is a central character in the 1961 romantic comedy film "The Pleasure of His Company," known as a charming but unreliable father whose return disrupts his daughter's impending marriage.
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B.
William Alwyn
William Alwyn was a 20th-century British composer and conductor known for his prolific film scores and concert works.
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C.
Kenneth Hargreaves
Kenneth Hargreaves was a British public servant and ceremonial official who notably served as Lord Lieutenant in Yorkshire.
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D.
Eric Coates
Eric Coates was a British computer scientist known for his involvement in early information retrieval and classification research, including work with the influential Classification Research Group.
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E.
Eric Coates
Eric Coates was a British composer best known for his light orchestral music and popular marches that became widely familiar through radio and film.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American composer
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composer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 20th century ⓘ |
| compositionalForm |
chamber music
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choral music ⓘ symphony ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creativePeriod |
interwar period
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post–World War II era ⓘ |
| familyName | Harris ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music composition
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symphonic composition ⓘ |
| genre |
classical music
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orchestral music ⓘ |
| givenName | Roy ⓘ |
| influenced |
American symphonic tradition
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later American composers ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
American folk traditions
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folk music ⓘ hymn tunes ⓘ shape-note singing ⓘ |
| movement |
American classical music
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American nationalist music ⓘ |
| name | Roy Harris ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
distinctly American musical style
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symphonies ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Symphony No. 11
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Symphony No. 3 ⓘ Symphony No. 4 "Folk Song Symphony" ⓘ Symphony No. 6 "Gettysburg" ⓘ Symphony No. 7 ⓘ Symphony No. 9 ⓘ |
| notedAs | influential 20th-century American composer ⓘ |
| occupation | composer ⓘ |
| style |
contrapuntal writing
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modal ⓘ tonal ⓘ |
| uses |
American folk melodies
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irregular rhythms ⓘ open harmonies ⓘ |
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: Roy Harris Description of subject: Roy Harris was an influential 20th-century American composer best known for his symphonies that drew on folk traditions and a distinctly national musical style.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.