Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
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20th-century composer
21st-century composer
British composer
composer
conductor
human
modernist composer
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was a prominent 20th-century British composer and conductor, known for his modernist works and for serving as Master of the Queen’s Music.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Maxwell Davies | 5 |
| Sir Peter Maxwell Davies canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1138930 — 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: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Context triple: [St Paul's School, London, hasAlumnus, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies]
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A.
Gordon Jacob
Gordon Jacob was a 20th-century English composer and orchestrator known for his wind band works, film scores, and ceremonial music for major state occasions.
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B.
Malcolm Arnold
Malcolm Arnold was a prominent 20th-century English composer best known for his symphonies, concertos, and acclaimed film scores such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai."
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C.
Herbert Howells
Herbert Howells was a 20th-century English composer and organist renowned for his choral and sacred music, particularly within the Anglican tradition.
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D.
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten was a prominent 20th-century English composer, conductor, and pianist best known for works such as the opera "Peter Grimes" and "The War Requiem."
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E.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams was a prominent 20th-century English composer known for his symphonies, choral works, and influential contributions to British ceremonial and folk-inspired 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: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Target entity description: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was a prominent 20th-century British composer and conductor, known for his modernist works and for serving as Master of the Queen’s Music.
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A.
Gordon Jacob
Gordon Jacob was a 20th-century English composer and orchestrator known for his wind band works, film scores, and ceremonial music for major state occasions.
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B.
Malcolm Arnold
Malcolm Arnold was a prominent 20th-century English composer best known for his symphonies, concertos, and acclaimed film scores such as "The Bridge on the River Kwai."
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C.
Herbert Howells
Herbert Howells was a 20th-century English composer and organist renowned for his choral and sacred music, particularly within the Anglican tradition.
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D.
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten was a prominent 20th-century English composer, conductor, and pianist best known for works such as the opera "Peter Grimes" and "The War Requiem."
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E.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams was a prominent 20th-century English composer known for his symphonies, choral works, and influential contributions to British ceremonial and folk-inspired music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Description of subject: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was a prominent 20th-century British composer and conductor, known for his modernist works and for serving as Master of the Queen’s Music.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Peter Maxwell Davies
this entity surface form:
Peter Maxwell Davies
subject surface form:
Peter Maxwell Davies
this entity surface form:
Peter Maxwell Davies
subject surface form:
Peter Maxwell Davies
this entity surface form:
Peter Maxwell Davies
this entity surface form:
Peter Maxwell Davies