Modest Mussorgsky
E161930
Modest Mussorgsky was a 19th-century Russian composer known for his innovative, nationalistic works such as "Pictures at an Exhibition" and the opera "Boris Godunov."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Modest Mussorgsky canonical | 17 |
| Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky | 1 |
| Mussorgsky | 1 |
| The Mighty Handful | 1 |
| Модест Петрович Мусоргский | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1393721 — 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: Modest Mussorgsky Context triple: [Alexander Nevsky Lavra, burialPlaceOf, Modest Mussorgsky]
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A.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a renowned Russian Romantic composer celebrated for works such as his ballets "Swan Lake," "The Nutcracker," and "Sleeping Beauty," as well as his symphonies and concertos.
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B.
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin, better known as Vyacheslav Molotov, was a prominent Soviet politician and diplomat who served as Joseph Stalin’s close associate and the long-time foreign minister of the USSR.
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C.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor renowned for his emotionally powerful Romantic-era works and virtuosic piano concertos.
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D.
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev was a prominent 20th-century Russian composer and pianist known for works such as "Peter and the Wolf," the ballet "Romeo and Juliet," and the "Classical" Symphony.
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E.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich was a prominent 20th-century Russian composer known for his symphonies, string quartets, and politically charged works created under the Soviet regime.
- 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: Modest Mussorgsky Target entity description: Modest Mussorgsky was a 19th-century Russian composer known for his innovative, nationalistic works such as "Pictures at an Exhibition" and the opera "Boris Godunov."
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A.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a renowned Russian Romantic composer celebrated for works such as his ballets "Swan Lake," "The Nutcracker," and "Sleeping Beauty," as well as his symphonies and concertos.
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B.
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin, better known as Vyacheslav Molotov, was a prominent Soviet politician and diplomat who served as Joseph Stalin’s close associate and the long-time foreign minister of the USSR.
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C.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor renowned for his emotionally powerful Romantic-era works and virtuosic piano concertos.
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D.
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev was a prominent 20th-century Russian composer and pianist known for works such as "Peter and the Wolf," the ballet "Romeo and Juliet," and the "Classical" Symphony.
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E.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich was a prominent 20th-century Russian composer known for his symphonies, string quartets, and politically charged works created under the Soviet regime.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Modest Mussorgsky Description of subject: Modest Mussorgsky was a 19th-century Russian composer known for his innovative, nationalistic works such as "Pictures at an Exhibition" and the opera "Boris Godunov."
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Boris Godunov
subject surface form:
Boris Godunov
this entity surface form:
The Mighty Handful
this entity surface form:
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
this entity surface form:
Mussorgsky
this entity surface form:
Модест Петрович Мусоргский
subject surface form:
Achille-Claude Debussy