Serge Koussevitzky
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Serge Koussevitzky was a renowned Russian-born conductor, double bassist, and music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, celebrated for championing contemporary composers and founding the Tanglewood Music Center.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Serge Koussevitzky canonical | 26 |
| Koussevitzky | 1 |
| Serge Koussevitzky (for the symphony as a whole) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T96728 — 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: Serge Koussevitzky Context triple: [Tanglewood, associatedWith, Serge Koussevitzky]
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A.
Herbert von Karajan
Herbert von Karajan was a renowned 20th-century Austrian conductor, best known for his long tenure with the Berlin Philharmonic and influential recordings of the classical repertoire.
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B.
Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim is an acclaimed pianist and conductor renowned for leading major orchestras worldwide and for his peace-building musical initiatives, including co-founding the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra.
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C.
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein was a renowned American composer, conductor, and pianist best known for works like "West Side Story" and for his long tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic.
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D.
Georges Longy
Georges Longy was a prominent French-born oboist and conductor best known for his influential role in Boston’s musical life and for founding the Longy School of Music.
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E.
Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma is a world-renowned American cellist celebrated for his virtuosity, cross-cultural collaborations, and efforts to promote peace and global understanding through music.
- 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: Serge Koussevitzky Target entity description: Serge Koussevitzky was a renowned Russian-born conductor, double bassist, and music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, celebrated for championing contemporary composers and founding the Tanglewood Music Center.
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A.
Herbert von Karajan
Herbert von Karajan was a renowned 20th-century Austrian conductor, best known for his long tenure with the Berlin Philharmonic and influential recordings of the classical repertoire.
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B.
Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim is an acclaimed pianist and conductor renowned for leading major orchestras worldwide and for his peace-building musical initiatives, including co-founding the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra.
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C.
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein was a renowned American composer, conductor, and pianist best known for works like "West Side Story" and for his long tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic.
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D.
Georges Longy
Georges Longy was a prominent French-born oboist and conductor best known for his influential role in Boston’s musical life and for founding the Longy School of Music.
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E.
Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma is a world-renowned American cellist celebrated for his virtuosity, cross-cultural collaborations, and efforts to promote peace and global understanding through music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Russian emigrant to the United States
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conductor ⓘ double bassist ⓘ human ⓘ music director ⓘ |
| birthName | Sergei Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Tanglewood ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Russian Empire
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United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1874-07-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1951-06-04 ⓘ |
| employer | Boston Symphony Orchestra ⓘ |
| endTime | 1949 (tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra) ⓘ |
| familyName |
Serge Koussevitzky
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Koussevitzky
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| founded |
Koussevitzky Music Foundation
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Tanglewood ⓘ
surface form:
Tanglewood Music Center
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| genre | classical music ⓘ |
| givenName | Sergei ⓘ |
| honor | Koussevitzky Music Foundation commissions ⓘ |
| instrument | double bass ⓘ |
| language |
English
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French ⓘ Russian ⓘ |
| movement | 20th-century classical music ⓘ |
| name | Serge Koussevitzky self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commissioning new orchestral works
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developing the Boston Symphony Orchestra into a leading American orchestra ⓘ promoting contemporary composers ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Aaron Copland
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Leonard Bernstein ⓘ Leonard Bernstein ⓘ
surface form:
Leonard Bernstein (as conducting protégé at Tanglewood)
Samuel Barber ⓘ |
| notableWork |
championing contemporary composers with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
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founding of the Tanglewood Music Center ⓘ |
| occupation |
double bassist
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music director ⓘ music publisher ⓘ orchestral conductor ⓘ patron of the arts ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Vyshny Volochyok ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Boston, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Boston
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| positionHeld | music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra ⓘ |
| residence |
Boston, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Boston
Paris ⓘ |
| spouse |
Natalie Koussevitzky
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Olga Naumova ⓘ |
| startTime | 1924 (tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra) ⓘ |
| studiedAt | Moscow Conservatory ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Serge Koussevitzky Description of subject: Serge Koussevitzky was a renowned Russian-born conductor, double bassist, and music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, celebrated for championing contemporary composers and founding the Tanglewood Music Center.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Koussevitzky
subject surface form:
Symphony of Psalms
this entity surface form:
Serge Koussevitzky (for the symphony as a whole)