Isadora Duncan
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Isadora Duncan was an influential American-born dancer often hailed as the "mother of modern dance" for her revolutionary, free-form style that broke with classical ballet conventions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Isadora Duncan canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2213796 — 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: Isadora Duncan Context triple: [Cimetière de Levallois-Perret, hasNotableBurial, Isadora Duncan]
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A.
Ruth St. Denis
Ruth St. Denis was a pioneering American modern dance artist and choreographer who helped found the Denishawn School, profoundly influencing the development of modern dance in the early 20th century.
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B.
Martha Graham
Martha Graham was a pioneering American modern dancer and choreographer whose innovative techniques and emotionally driven works revolutionized 20th-century dance.
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C.
Bronislava Nijinska
Bronislava Nijinska was a pioneering Polish-Russian ballet dancer, choreographer, and teacher, known for her innovative modernist works and major contributions to early 20th-century ballet.
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D.
Anna Pavlova
Anna Pavlova was a legendary Russian prima ballerina of the early 20th century, renowned worldwide for her expressive dancing and iconic role in "The Dying Swan."
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E.
Vaslav Nijinsky
Vaslav Nijinsky was a legendary early 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer renowned for his extraordinary technique, expressive power, and groundbreaking modernist works.
- 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: Isadora Duncan Target entity description: Isadora Duncan was an influential American-born dancer often hailed as the "mother of modern dance" for her revolutionary, free-form style that broke with classical ballet conventions.
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A.
Ruth St. Denis
Ruth St. Denis was a pioneering American modern dance artist and choreographer who helped found the Denishawn School, profoundly influencing the development of modern dance in the early 20th century.
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B.
Martha Graham
Martha Graham was a pioneering American modern dancer and choreographer whose innovative techniques and emotionally driven works revolutionized 20th-century dance.
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C.
Bronislava Nijinska
Bronislava Nijinska was a pioneering Polish-Russian ballet dancer, choreographer, and teacher, known for her innovative modernist works and major contributions to early 20th-century ballet.
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D.
Anna Pavlova
Anna Pavlova was a legendary Russian prima ballerina of the early 20th century, renowned worldwide for her expressive dancing and iconic role in "The Dying Swan."
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E.
Vaslav Nijinsky
Vaslav Nijinsky was a legendary early 20th-century ballet dancer and choreographer renowned for his extraordinary technique, expressive power, and groundbreaking modernist works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Isadora Duncan Description of subject: Isadora Duncan was an influential American-born dancer often hailed as the "mother of modern dance" for her revolutionary, free-form style that broke with classical ballet conventions.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ina Coolbrith