Sancta Civitas

E211925

choral-orchestral work oratorio sacred choral work

Sancta Civitas is a choral-orchestral work by Ralph Vaughan Williams, often described as a mystical oratorio based on the Book of Revelation.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Sancta Civitas canonical	1

Statements (30)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	choral-orchestral work ⓘ oratorio ⓘ sacred choral work ⓘ
basedOn	Book of Revelation ⓘ
composer	Ralph Vaughan Williams ⓘ
composerNationality	British ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom ⓘ
genre	mystical oratorio ⓘ
hasPart	baritone soloist ⓘ chorus ⓘ distant choir ⓘ orchestra ⓘ semi-chorus ⓘ tenor soloist ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
movement	English choral tradition ⓘ
religiousContext	Christianity ⓘ
religiousWork	yes ⓘ
scoring	mixed chorus and orchestra ⓘ solo voices and orchestra ⓘ
style	20th-century classical music ⓘ English pastoral-modernist style ⓘ
subjectMatter	New Jerusalem ⓘ Second Coming of Christ ⓘ apocalyptic vision ⓘ
textLanguage	English ⓘ
textSource	Bible ⓘ Book of Revelation ⓘ
titleLanguage	Latin ⓘ
titleTranslation	The Holy City ⓘ

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: Sancta Civitas
Description of subject: Sancta Civitas is a choral-orchestral work by Ralph Vaughan Williams, often described as a mystical oratorio based on the Book of Revelation.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ralph Vaughan Williams → notableWork → Sancta Civitas ⓘ