El Capitan
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El Capitan is a popular comic opera by John Philip Sousa, best known for its lively marches and enduring presence in the light opera repertoire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| El Capitan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13009727 — 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: El Capitan Context triple: [John Philip Sousa, notableWork, El Capitan]
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A.
El Capitan
El Capitan is a massive vertical granite monolith in California’s Sierra Nevada, famed worldwide as one of the most iconic and challenging big-wall rock climbing destinations.
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B.
El Capitan
El Capitan was a streamlined, all-coach luxury passenger train operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway between Chicago and Los Angeles in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Half Dome
Half Dome is a famous granite rock formation in California known for its distinctive sheer face and popular but strenuous hiking and climbing routes.
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Lassen Peak
Lassen Peak is a prominent active volcano in Northern California known for its 1914–1921 eruptions and status as one of the southernmost major peaks in the Cascade Range.
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E.
Sonoma Peak
Sonoma Peak is a prominent mountain summit in Nevada known as the tallest point in the Sonoma Range and a notable landmark for hikers and outdoor enthusiasts.
- 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: El Capitan Target entity description: El Capitan is a popular comic opera by John Philip Sousa, best known for its lively marches and enduring presence in the light opera repertoire.
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A.
El Capitan
El Capitan is a massive vertical granite monolith in California’s Sierra Nevada, famed worldwide as one of the most iconic and challenging big-wall rock climbing destinations.
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B.
El Capitan
El Capitan was a streamlined, all-coach luxury passenger train operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway between Chicago and Los Angeles in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Half Dome
Half Dome is a famous granite rock formation in California known for its distinctive sheer face and popular but strenuous hiking and climbing routes.
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D.
Lassen Peak
Lassen Peak is a prominent active volcano in Northern California known for its 1914–1921 eruptions and status as one of the southernmost major peaks in the Cascade Range.
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E.
Sonoma Peak
Sonoma Peak is a prominent mountain summit in Nevada known as the tallest point in the Sonoma Range and a notable landmark for hikers and outdoor enthusiasts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | comic opera ⓘ |
| acts | 3 ⓘ |
| basedOn | Spanish colonial rule in Peru ⓘ |
| composer | John Philip Sousa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstNewYorkPerformanceDate | 1896-04-20 GENERATED ⓘ |
| firstNewYorkTheatre | Broadway Theatre, New York City, United States GENERATED ⓘ |
| firstRunType | Broadway production ⓘ |
| genre |
comic opera
ⓘ
operetta ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Don Errico
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
El Capitan NERFINISHED ⓘ General Huaracha NERFINISHED ⓘ Princess Marghanza NERFINISHED ⓘ Senor Amabile Pozzo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRecording | multiple commercial audio recordings ⓘ |
| hasScoreType |
full orchestral score
ⓘ
vocal score with piano reduction ⓘ |
| hasWorkDerivative | El Capitan March NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | concert band repertoire through El Capitan March NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| librettist |
Charles Klein
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tom Frost NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicStyle | American march style ⓘ |
| notableFor |
enduring presence in the light opera repertoire
ⓘ
lively marches ⓘ |
| notableNumber | El Capitan March NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orchestration | orchestra ⓘ |
| originalLanguageCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | American light opera repertoire ⓘ |
| performanceFrequency | occasionally performed by light opera companies ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 1896-04-13 ⓘ |
| premierePlace | Boston Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producerOfPremiere | Francis Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherOfVocalScore | John Church Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Peru NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 16th century ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
political intrigue
ⓘ
romantic comedy ⓘ |
| vocalForces |
chorus
ⓘ
solo voices ⓘ |
| workTitle | El Capitan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: El Capitan Description of subject: El Capitan is a popular comic opera by John Philip Sousa, best known for its lively marches and enduring presence in the light opera repertoire.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.