Michael Best (tenor)
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Michael Best is an American operatic tenor known for his performances with major opera companies, including the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Best (tenor) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2604395 — 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: Michael Best (tenor) Context triple: [Best, hasNotableBearer, Michael Best (tenor)]
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A.
Thomas Hampson
Thomas Hampson is an acclaimed American baritone renowned for his opera performances and song recitals on major international stages.
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B.
Michael Crawford
Michael Crawford is an English actor and singer best known for his role in the sitcom "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em" and for originating the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "The Phantom of the Opera."
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C.
Philippe Jaroussky
Philippe Jaroussky is a renowned French countertenor celebrated for his virtuosic Baroque opera and concert performances.
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D.
John Guleserian
John Guleserian is an American cinematographer known for his work on independent films and romantic dramas, including the acclaimed feature "Like Crazy."
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E.
Robert McFerrin Sr.
Robert McFerrin Sr. was a pioneering American baritone and the first African American man to sing at the Metropolitan Opera.
- 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: Michael Best (tenor) Target entity description: Michael Best is an American operatic tenor known for his performances with major opera companies, including the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
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A.
Thomas Hampson
Thomas Hampson is an acclaimed American baritone renowned for his opera performances and song recitals on major international stages.
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B.
Michael Crawford
Michael Crawford is an English actor and singer best known for his role in the sitcom "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em" and for originating the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "The Phantom of the Opera."
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C.
Philippe Jaroussky
Philippe Jaroussky is a renowned French countertenor celebrated for his virtuosic Baroque opera and concert performances.
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D.
John Guleserian
John Guleserian is an American cinematographer known for his work on independent films and romantic dramas, including the acclaimed feature "Like Crazy."
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E.
Robert McFerrin Sr.
Robert McFerrin Sr. was a pioneering American baritone and the first African American man to sing at the Metropolitan Opera.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American opera singer
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operatic tenor ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century opera
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21st-century opera ⓘ |
| artisticDiscipline | vocal performance ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Lyric Opera of Chicago ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | opera ⓘ |
| genre | opera ⓘ |
| hasNotableRole | leading tenor roles in opera ⓘ |
| isA |
American male opera singer
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American operatic tenor ⓘ |
| languageOfPerformance |
English
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German ⓘ Italian ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
performances with Lyric Opera of Chicago
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performances with major American opera companies ⓘ |
| occupation |
opera singer
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tenor ⓘ |
| performanceMedium | opera stage ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| voiceType | tenor ⓘ |
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: Michael Best (tenor) Description of subject: Michael Best is an American operatic tenor known for his performances with major opera companies, including the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.