Thomas Tallis
E211930
Thomas Tallis was a seminal 16th-century English composer renowned for his sacred choral music and lasting influence on later composers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Tallis canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1909095 — 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: Thomas Tallis Context triple: [Ralph Vaughan Williams, influencedBy, Thomas Tallis]
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was a leading 16th-century Italian Renaissance composer renowned for his sacred polyphonic music and lasting influence on Western choral tradition.
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B.
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Tomás Luis de Victoria was a leading Spanish Renaissance composer and priest renowned for his intensely expressive sacred polyphonic music.
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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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William Mynors
William Mynors was a 17th-century English sea captain best known for being the first recorded European to sight and name Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
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Hubert Parry
Hubert Parry was an influential English composer, teacher, and music historian of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for works like "Jerusalem" and for shaping a generation of British composers.
- 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: Thomas Tallis Target entity description: Thomas Tallis was a seminal 16th-century English composer renowned for his sacred choral music and lasting influence on later composers.
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A.
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was a leading 16th-century Italian Renaissance composer renowned for his sacred polyphonic music and lasting influence on Western choral tradition.
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B.
Tomás Luis de Victoria
Tomás Luis de Victoria was a leading Spanish Renaissance composer and priest renowned for his intensely expressive sacred polyphonic music.
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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.
William Mynors
William Mynors was a 17th-century English sea captain best known for being the first recorded European to sight and name Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.
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E.
Hubert Parry
Hubert Parry was an influential English composer, teacher, and music historian of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for works like "Jerusalem" and for shaping a generation of British composers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Thomas Tallis Description of subject: Thomas Tallis was a seminal 16th-century English composer renowned for his sacred choral music and lasting influence on later composers.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Nunc Dimittis (Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace)
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hasBeenSetToMusicBy
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Thomas Tallis
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subject surface form:
Nunc Dimittis