Marie Petipa
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Marie Petipa was a Russian ballerina of the late 19th century, known for originating the role of the Lilac Fairy in Marius Petipa’s landmark ballet "The Sleeping Beauty."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marie Petipa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2041471 — 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: Marie Petipa Context triple: [The Sleeping Beauty, firstLilacFairyDancer, Marie Petipa]
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A.
Marius Petipa
Marius Petipa was a seminal 19th-century ballet master and choreographer whose work helped define the classical ballet repertoire, including major contributions to Tchaikovsky’s ballets.
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B.
Michel Fokine
Michel Fokine was a pioneering Russian choreographer and dancer who helped revolutionize early 20th-century ballet with expressive, dramatically unified works.
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Serge Lifar
Serge Lifar was a prominent 20th-century ballet dancer, choreographer, and influential ballet master of the Paris Opera who helped shape modern classical ballet.
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D.
Agrippina Vaganova
Agrippina Vaganova was a renowned Russian ballerina and influential pedagogue best known for developing the Vaganova method, a foundational system of classical ballet training.
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E.
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.
- 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: Marie Petipa Target entity description: Marie Petipa was a Russian ballerina of the late 19th century, known for originating the role of the Lilac Fairy in Marius Petipa’s landmark ballet "The Sleeping Beauty."
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A.
Marius Petipa
Marius Petipa was a seminal 19th-century ballet master and choreographer whose work helped define the classical ballet repertoire, including major contributions to Tchaikovsky’s ballets.
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B.
Michel Fokine
Michel Fokine was a pioneering Russian choreographer and dancer who helped revolutionize early 20th-century ballet with expressive, dramatically unified works.
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C.
Serge Lifar
Serge Lifar was a prominent 20th-century ballet dancer, choreographer, and influential ballet master of the Paris Opera who helped shape modern classical ballet.
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D.
Agrippina Vaganova
Agrippina Vaganova was a renowned Russian ballerina and influential pedagogue best known for developing the Vaganova method, a foundational system of classical ballet training.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ballerina
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performing artist ⓘ |
| activePeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| artisticDiscipline | classical dance ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Marius Petipa ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Russian ⓘ |
| genre |
ballet
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classical ballet repertoire ⓘ |
| hasRoleInWorkBy |
The Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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surface form:
The Sleeping Beauty by Marius Petipa
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| languageOfWorkOrName | Russian ⓘ |
| movement | classical ballet ⓘ |
| notableAppearance | original production of The Sleeping Beauty ⓘ |
| notableFor | creating the original interpretation of the Lilac Fairy ⓘ |
| notableRole | Lilac Fairy ⓘ |
| notableWork | originating the role of the Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty ⓘ |
| occupation | ballerina ⓘ |
| performanceType | stage performance ⓘ |
| performedIn | The Sleeping Beauty ⓘ |
| workLocation | Russian Empire ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Marie Petipa Description of subject: Marie Petipa was a Russian ballerina of the late 19th century, known for originating the role of the Lilac Fairy in Marius Petipa’s landmark ballet "The Sleeping Beauty."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Sleeping Beauty