La Scala
E17826
La Scala is Milan's world-renowned opera house, celebrated as one of the leading venues for opera and classical music performances.
All labels observed (16)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T147368 — 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: La Scala Context triple: [Herbert von Karajan, employer, La Scala]
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A.
Vienna State Opera
The Vienna State Opera is one of the world’s leading opera houses, renowned for its rich history, prestigious productions, and central role in Vienna’s classical music culture.
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B.
Opera House
The Opera House is a principal performance venue within the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., primarily hosting opera, ballet, and other large-scale theatrical productions.
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C.
Gran Teatro de La Habana
Gran Teatro de La Habana is a historic and ornate performing arts theater in central Havana, Cuba, renowned for its baroque architecture and as the home of the Cuban National Ballet.
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D.
Mariinsky Theatre
The Mariinsky Theatre is a historic opera and ballet house in Saint Petersburg, Russia, renowned as one of the world’s leading centers for classical music and performing arts.
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E.
Palais Garnier, Paris
Palais Garnier in Paris is a grand 19th-century opera house renowned for its opulent architecture, lavish interiors, and central role in the city’s cultural life.
- 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: La Scala Target entity description: La Scala is Milan's world-renowned opera house, celebrated as one of the leading venues for opera and classical music performances.
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A.
Vienna State Opera
The Vienna State Opera is one of the world’s leading opera houses, renowned for its rich history, prestigious productions, and central role in Vienna’s classical music culture.
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B.
Opera House
The Opera House is a principal performance venue within the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., primarily hosting opera, ballet, and other large-scale theatrical productions.
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C.
Gran Teatro de La Habana
Gran Teatro de La Habana is a historic and ornate performing arts theater in central Havana, Cuba, renowned for its baroque architecture and as the home of the Cuban National Ballet.
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D.
Mariinsky Theatre
The Mariinsky Theatre is a historic opera and ballet house in Saint Petersburg, Russia, renowned as one of the world’s leading centers for classical music and performing arts.
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E.
Palais Garnier, Paris
Palais Garnier in Paris is a grand 19th-century opera house renowned for its opulent architecture, lavish interiors, and central role in the city’s cultural life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cultural institution
ⓘ
opera house ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| architect | Giuseppe Piermarini ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Neoclassical architecture ⓘ |
| country | Italy ⓘ |
| destroyedAndRebuilt | after World War II bombing ⓘ |
| hasNativeName |
La Scala
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Teatro alla Scala
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| hasResidentEnsemble |
La Scala
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
La Scala Ballet
La Scala self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
La Scala Theatre Chorus
La Scala self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
La Scala Theatre Orchestra
|
| hasSchool |
La Scala
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
La Scala Theatre Academy
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| hasType |
ballet venue
ⓘ
concert hall ⓘ opera venue ⓘ |
| hostsEventType |
ballet performances
ⓘ
opera premieres ⓘ symphonic concerts ⓘ |
| inception | 1778 ⓘ |
| isConsidered | one of the leading opera houses in the world ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance | Italian ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lombardy
ⓘ
Milan ⓘ Piazza della Scala ⓘ historic centre of Milan ⓘ |
| majorRenovation | 2002–2004 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Santa Maria alla Scala ⓘ |
| notableConductor |
Arturo Toscanini
ⓘ
Claudio Abbado ⓘ Daniel Barenboim ⓘ Riccardo Chailly ⓘ Riccardo Muti ⓘ |
| notableDirector | Luchino Visconti ⓘ |
| notableSingerAssociated |
Enrico Caruso
ⓘ
Luciano Pavarotti ⓘ Maria Callas ⓘ Renata Tebaldi ⓘ |
| opened | 3 August 1778 ⓘ |
| openingSeasonAssociatedWith | Feast of Saint Ambrose ⓘ |
| openingSeasonTradition | opera season opens on 7 December ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Fondazione Teatro alla Scala ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Milan
ⓘ
surface form:
Comune di Milano
|
| predecessor | Teatro Regio Ducale ⓘ |
| primaryGenre |
ballet
ⓘ
classical music ⓘ opera ⓘ |
| renovationArchitect | Mario Botta ⓘ |
| reopened | 1946 ⓘ |
| seatingCapacity | approximately 2000 ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | major Milan landmark ⓘ |
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: La Scala Description of subject: La Scala is Milan's world-renowned opera house, celebrated as one of the leading venues for opera and classical music performances.
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