Houston Grand Opera
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Houston Grand Opera is a major American opera company based in Houston, Texas, renowned for its world-class productions and commitment to commissioning and presenting new works.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Houston Grand Opera canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9005999 — 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)
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Target entity: Houston Grand Opera Context triple: [Eric Owens, hasPerformedAt, Houston Grand Opera]
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A.
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.
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B.
Theatre Under the Stars, Houston
Theatre Under the Stars in Houston is a prominent regional musical theatre company known for producing large-scale Broadway-style shows and nurturing new works.
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C.
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
Lyric Opera of Kansas City is a professional opera company based in Kansas City, Missouri, known for staging a mix of classic and contemporary operatic productions.
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D.
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Lyric Opera of Chicago is a major American opera company renowned for its world-class productions and performances, based in downtown Chicago.
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E.
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.
- 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: Houston Grand Opera Target entity description: Houston Grand Opera is a major American opera company based in Houston, Texas, renowned for its world-class productions and commitment to commissioning and presenting new works.
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A.
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.
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B.
Theatre Under the Stars, Houston
Theatre Under the Stars in Houston is a prominent regional musical theatre company known for producing large-scale Broadway-style shows and nurturing new works.
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C.
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
Lyric Opera of Kansas City is a professional opera company based in Kansas City, Missouri, known for staging a mix of classic and contemporary operatic productions.
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D.
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Lyric Opera of Chicago is a major American opera company renowned for its world-class productions and performances, based in downtown Chicago.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
nonprofit organization
ⓘ
opera company ⓘ |
| artForm | opera ⓘ |
| artisticDirectorRole | Artistic Director ⓘ |
| artisticDiscipline |
music
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| audienceRegion |
Greater Houston area
ⓘ
international audience ⓘ national audience ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Houston, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Houston
|
| city | Houston ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| focus |
commissioning new works
ⓘ
presenting new works ⓘ world-class opera productions ⓘ |
| formerVenue |
Houston Music Hall
ⓘ
linked to:
City Auditorium (Houston)
|
| foundedIn | 1955 ⓘ |
| founder |
Edward Bing
ⓘ
Walter Herbert ⓘ |
| generalDirectorRole | General Director ⓘ |
| genre | opera ⓘ |
| hasChorus | Houston Grand Opera Chorus ⓘ |
| hasEducationalFocus |
community outreach
ⓘ
opera education ⓘ |
| hasNonprofitStatus | 501(c)(3) organization ⓘ |
| hasOrchestra | Houston Grand Opera Orchestra ⓘ |
| hasProgram |
HGO Studio
ⓘ
education and community engagement programs ⓘ young artist training program ⓘ |
| hasSeason | annual opera season ⓘ |
| homeVenue | Wortham Theater Center ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | multiple languages ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | Greater Houston ⓘ |
| location |
Houston, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Houston
|
| mission |
to develop and present new works
ⓘ
to engage diverse communities through opera ⓘ to produce world-class opera ⓘ |
| notableFor |
American premieres of important works
ⓘ
innovative productions ⓘ premieres of new operas ⓘ |
| performs |
contemporary operas
ⓘ
standard operatic repertoire ⓘ |
| performsAt | Wortham Theater Center ⓘ |
| reputation | major American opera company ⓘ |
| sector | performing arts ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| typeOfOrganization | performing arts organization ⓘ |
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: Houston Grand Opera Description of subject: Houston Grand Opera is a major American opera company based in Houston, Texas, renowned for its world-class productions and commitment to commissioning and presenting new works.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.