Davidov
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Davidov is a famed 1712 Stradivarius cello, once owned by cellist Karl Davydov and later played by Jacqueline du Pré and Yo-Yo Ma, renowned for its exceptional craftsmanship and rich tone.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Davidov canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1524643 — 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: Davidov Context triple: [1712 Stradivarius cello "Davidov", hasName, Davidov]
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A.
Vojtech
Vojtech is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Central and Eastern Europe.
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B.
Miroslav
Miroslav is a common Slavic male given name, notably borne by Slovak ice hockey star Miroslav Šatan.
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King Ottokar II of Bohemia
King Ottokar II of Bohemia was a powerful 13th-century ruler who expanded Bohemian influence across Central Europe and became one of the era’s most prominent monarchs.
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D.
John of Bohemia
John of Bohemia was a 14th-century King of Bohemia and Count of Luxembourg, famed for his chivalric reputation and heroic death at the Battle of Crécy.
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E.
King of Bohemia
The King of Bohemia was the monarch of the historical Kingdom of Bohemia in Central Europe, a title that became especially significant within the Holy Roman Empire and later the Habsburg-ruled Austrian lands.
- 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: Davidov Target entity description: Davidov is a famed 1712 Stradivarius cello, once owned by cellist Karl Davydov and later played by Jacqueline du Pré and Yo-Yo Ma, renowned for its exceptional craftsmanship and rich tone.
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A.
Vojtech
Vojtech is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Central and Eastern Europe.
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B.
Miroslav
Miroslav is a common Slavic male given name, notably borne by Slovak ice hockey star Miroslav Šatan.
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C.
King Ottokar II of Bohemia
King Ottokar II of Bohemia was a powerful 13th-century ruler who expanded Bohemian influence across Central Europe and became one of the era’s most prominent monarchs.
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D.
John of Bohemia
John of Bohemia was a 14th-century King of Bohemia and Count of Luxembourg, famed for his chivalric reputation and heroic death at the Battle of Crécy.
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E.
King of Bohemia
The King of Bohemia was the monarch of the historical Kingdom of Bohemia in Central Europe, a title that became especially significant within the Holy Roman Empire and later the Habsburg-ruled Austrian lands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Stradivarius cello
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string instrument ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Davidov Stradivarius cello
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Davidov Stradivarius cello ⓘ
surface form:
Davydov Stradivarius
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| completionDate | 1712 ⓘ |
| hasOwnerType | private collection ⓘ |
| hasQuality |
powerful projection
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rich tone ⓘ warm timbre ⓘ |
| instrumentFamily | cello ⓘ |
| instrumentType | full-size cello ⓘ |
| madeBy | Antonio Stradivari ⓘ |
| madeIn |
Cremona
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surface form:
Cremona, Italy
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| manufacturer | Antonio Stradivari ⓘ |
| material | wood ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Karl Davydov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePlayer |
Jacqueline du Pré
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Karl Davydov NERFINISHED ⓘ Yo-Yo Ma ⓘ |
| origin |
Cremona
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surface form:
Cremona, Italy
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| periodOfWork |
Golden period of Stradivari
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surface form:
Stradivari golden period
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| previousOwner |
Jacqueline du Pré
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Karl Davydov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousPlayer |
Jacqueline du Pré
ⓘ
Karl Davydov NERFINISHED ⓘ Yo-Yo Ma ⓘ |
| renownedFor |
exceptional craftsmanship
ⓘ
rich tone ⓘ |
| usedFor |
chamber music performance
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orchestral performance ⓘ solo performance ⓘ |
| usedInGenre | classical music ⓘ |
| yearMade | 1712 ⓘ |
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: Davidov Description of subject: Davidov is a famed 1712 Stradivarius cello, once owned by cellist Karl Davydov and later played by Jacqueline du Pré and Yo-Yo Ma, renowned for its exceptional craftsmanship and rich tone.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
1712 Stradivarius cello "Davidov"