Seattle Opera
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Seattle Opera is a major American opera company based in Seattle, Washington, renowned for its innovative productions and strong emphasis on both classic and contemporary works.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Seattle Opera canonical | 6 |
| Seattle Opera (at McCaw Hall) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7745181 — 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: Seattle Opera Context triple: [McCaw Hall, primaryTenant, Seattle Opera]
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A.
San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera is one of the leading American opera companies, renowned for its grand productions and influential role in the cultural life of San Francisco.
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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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C.
Santa Fe Opera
Santa Fe Opera is a renowned open-air opera company and festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico, celebrated for its innovative productions and dramatic desert setting.
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Los Angeles Opera
Los Angeles Opera is a major American opera company based in downtown Los Angeles, known for its diverse productions and performances at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
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E.
San Francisco Opera Orchestra
The San Francisco Opera Orchestra is the resident professional orchestra that performs for productions of the San Francisco Opera, recognized as one of the leading opera orchestras in the United States.
- 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: Seattle Opera Target entity description: Seattle Opera is a major American opera company based in Seattle, Washington, renowned for its innovative productions and strong emphasis on both classic and contemporary works.
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A.
San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera is one of the leading American opera companies, renowned for its grand productions and influential role in the cultural life of San Francisco.
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B.
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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C.
Santa Fe Opera
Santa Fe Opera is a renowned open-air opera company and festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico, celebrated for its innovative productions and dramatic desert setting.
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D.
Los Angeles Opera
Los Angeles Opera is a major American opera company based in downtown Los Angeles, known for its diverse productions and performances at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
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E.
San Francisco Opera Orchestra
The San Francisco Opera Orchestra is the resident professional orchestra that performs for productions of the San Francisco Opera, recognized as one of the leading opera orchestras in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
nonprofit organization
ⓘ
opera company ⓘ |
| artisticFocus |
American premieres of operas
ⓘ
new opera commissions ⓘ revivals of standard repertoire ⓘ |
| basedIn | Seattle Center ⓘ |
| city | Seattle ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
Pacific Northwest Ballet
ⓘ
Seattle Symphony ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| focus |
classic opera repertoire
ⓘ
contemporary opera repertoire ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1963 ⓘ |
| founder | Glynn Ross ⓘ |
| genre | opera ⓘ |
| hasArtisticDirector | Christina Scheppelmann ⓘ |
| hasChorus | Seattle Opera Chorus ⓘ |
| hasEducationProgram | yes ⓘ |
| hasGeneralDirector | Christina Scheppelmann ⓘ |
| hasMission |
to foster community through opera
ⓘ
to produce great opera ⓘ |
| hasOrchestra | Seattle Opera Orchestra ⓘ |
| hasSeason | annual opera season ⓘ |
| hasType | resident opera company ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Ring cycle productions
ⓘ
high-quality Wagner productions ⓘ innovative productions ⓘ |
| languagePolicy | original languages with English supertitles ⓘ |
| location |
Seattle, Washington
ⓘ
linked to:
Seattle, Washington, United States
|
| nonprofitStatus | 501(c)(3) ⓘ |
| notableFor |
long rehearsal periods
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strong emphasis on theatrical staging ⓘ use of surtitles in the United States ⓘ |
| offers |
artist training programs
ⓘ
community engagement programs ⓘ youth education programs ⓘ |
| performs |
concerts and recitals
ⓘ
full-scale opera productions ⓘ |
| performsAt | Marion Oliver McCaw Hall ⓘ |
| previousVenue | Seattle Opera House ⓘ |
| regionServed | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| servesAudience |
international audience
ⓘ
local audience ⓘ national audience ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| usesVenue | Marion Oliver McCaw Hall at Seattle Center ⓘ |
| website | https://www.seattleopera.org/ ⓘ |
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: Seattle Opera Description of subject: Seattle Opera is a major American opera company based in Seattle, Washington, renowned for its innovative productions and strong emphasis on both classic and contemporary works.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Seattle Opera