Funeral March
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"Funeral March" is a somber, elegiac piano piece best known as one of the most memorable numbers from Felix Mendelssohn's collection Songs Without Words.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Funeral March canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9491618 — 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: Funeral March Context triple: [Songs Without Words, notablePiece, Funeral March]
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A.
Funeral March of a Marionette
"Funeral March of a Marionette" is a light, macabre orchestral piece by Charles Gounod, best known today as the whimsical, suspenseful theme associated with Alfred Hitchcock.
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B.
Trauermusik
Trauermusik is a short, solemn piece for viola and string orchestra by Paul Hindemith, composed in 1936 as a memorial tribute to King George V.
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C.
Musikalische Exequien
Musikalische Exequien is a 17th-century German funeral music composition by Heinrich Schütz that is regarded as one of the earliest and most significant Lutheran requiem works.
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D.
Élégie in C minor, Op. 24
Élégie in C minor, Op. 24 is a lyrical and melancholic piece for cello and piano by French composer Gabriel Fauré, often celebrated as one of his most expressive and popular chamber works.
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E.
Valse Triste
Valse Triste is a ballet choreographed by Peter Martins, set to Jean Sibelius’s melancholic waltz of the same name.
- 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: Funeral March Target entity description: "Funeral March" is a somber, elegiac piano piece best known as one of the most memorable numbers from Felix Mendelssohn's collection Songs Without Words.
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A.
Funeral March of a Marionette
"Funeral March of a Marionette" is a light, macabre orchestral piece by Charles Gounod, best known today as the whimsical, suspenseful theme associated with Alfred Hitchcock.
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B.
Trauermusik
Trauermusik is a short, solemn piece for viola and string orchestra by Paul Hindemith, composed in 1936 as a memorial tribute to King George V.
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C.
Musikalische Exequien
Musikalische Exequien is a 17th-century German funeral music composition by Heinrich Schütz that is regarded as one of the earliest and most significant Lutheran requiem works.
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D.
Élégie in C minor, Op. 24
Élégie in C minor, Op. 24 is a lyrical and melancholic piece for cello and piano by French composer Gabriel Fauré, often celebrated as one of his most expressive and popular chamber works.
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E.
Valse Triste
Valse Triste is a ballet choreographed by Peter Martins, set to Jean Sibelius’s melancholic waltz of the same name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character piece
ⓘ
collection of piano pieces ⓘ composer ⓘ musical composition ⓘ pianist ⓘ piano piece ⓘ |
| composer |
Felix Mendelssohn
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Felix Mendelssohn ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| genre |
Romantic piano music
ⓘ
funeral march ⓘ |
| instrumentation |
solo piano
ⓘ
solo piano ⓘ |
| mood |
elegiac
ⓘ
somber ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| partOf | Songs Without Words ⓘ |
| style | Romantic ⓘ |
| tonality | minor key ⓘ |
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: Funeral March Description of subject: "Funeral March" is a somber, elegiac piano piece best known as one of the most memorable numbers from Felix Mendelssohn's collection Songs Without Words.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.