The Creation
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The Creation is an oratorio by Joseph Haydn that depicts the biblical story of the world's creation with vivid choral and orchestral writing.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Creation canonical | 4 |
| Die Schöpfung | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2616034 — 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: The Creation Context triple: [Joseph Haydn, notableWork, The Creation]
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A.
Creation of Adam
The Creation of Adam refers to the Islamic account of God forming the first human, Adam, from clay and breathing into him a soul, establishing him as the progenitor of humankind.
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B.
The Origin of the World
The Origin of the World is an 1866 realist oil painting by Gustave Courbet that provocatively depicts a close-up view of a woman's genitals, challenging 19th-century artistic and social conventions.
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C.
Hexaemeron
Hexaemeron is a series of homilies by Basil of Caesarea that offers a theological and philosophical commentary on the six days of creation in the Book of Genesis.
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D.
Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte
Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte is a 19th-century work by Ernst Haeckel that popularized evolutionary theory and introduced influential (though now outdated) ideas about human and biological evolution.
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E.
On the Creation (De opificio mundi)
On the Creation (De opificio mundi) is a philosophical and allegorical treatise by Philo of Alexandria that interprets the biblical account of creation through the lens of Hellenistic, especially Platonic, thought.
- 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: The Creation Target entity description: The Creation is an oratorio by Joseph Haydn that depicts the biblical story of the world's creation with vivid choral and orchestral writing.
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A.
Creation of Adam
The Creation of Adam refers to the Islamic account of God forming the first human, Adam, from clay and breathing into him a soul, establishing him as the progenitor of humankind.
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B.
The Origin of the World
The Origin of the World is an 1866 realist oil painting by Gustave Courbet that provocatively depicts a close-up view of a woman's genitals, challenging 19th-century artistic and social conventions.
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C.
Hexaemeron
Hexaemeron is a series of homilies by Basil of Caesarea that offers a theological and philosophical commentary on the six days of creation in the Book of Genesis.
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D.
Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte
Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte is a 19th-century work by Ernst Haeckel that popularized evolutionary theory and introduced influential (though now outdated) ideas about human and biological evolution.
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E.
On the Creation (De opificio mundi)
On the Creation (De opificio mundi) is a philosophical and allegorical treatise by Philo of Alexandria that interprets the biblical account of creation through the lens of Hellenistic, especially Platonic, thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | oratorio ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Haydn The Creation
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surface form:
Haydn's Creation
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| basedOn |
Book of Genesis
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Paradise Lost ⓘ
surface form:
John Milton's Paradise Lost
Psalms ⓘ |
| catalogueNumber | Hob. XXI:2 ⓘ |
| character |
Adam
ⓘ
Eve ⓘ Gabriel ⓘ
surface form:
archangel Gabriel
Raphael (archangel) ⓘ
surface form:
archangel Raphael
Archangel Uriel ⓘ
surface form:
archangel Uriel
|
| composer | Joseph Haydn ⓘ |
| compositionEndYear | 1798 ⓘ |
| compositionStartYear | 1796 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Austria ⓘ |
| duration | approximately 100 minutes ⓘ |
| features |
chorus
ⓘ
orchestra ⓘ vocal soloists ⓘ |
| firstPublicPerformanceCity | Vienna ⓘ |
| firstPublicPerformanceDate | 1799-03-19 ⓘ |
| genre | sacred oratorio ⓘ |
| hasOriginalLibrettoVersion | English ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Handel's oratorios ⓘ |
| keyStylisticPeriod | Classical ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| librettist | Gottfried van Swieten ⓘ |
| librettoLanguage | German ⓘ |
| notableChorus | The Heavens are Telling ⓘ |
| notableMovement | The Representation of Chaos ⓘ |
| numberOfParts | 3 ⓘ |
| placeInComposerOutput | late work ⓘ |
| premiereCity | Vienna ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 1798-04-29 ⓘ |
| premiereVenue | Palais Schwarzenberg, Vienna ⓘ |
| publisher |
Breitkopf & Härtel
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surface form:
Breitkopf & Härtel (early edition)
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| scoring |
bass solo
ⓘ
mixed chorus ⓘ orchestra ⓘ soprano solo ⓘ tenor solo ⓘ |
| setting | Old Testament creation narrative ⓘ |
| structure |
Part I
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Part II ⓘ Part III ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
biblical creation of the world
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creation of animals ⓘ creation of light ⓘ creation of man and woman ⓘ |
| titleInGerman |
The Creation
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Die Schöpfung
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Input
Subject: The Creation Description of subject: The Creation is an oratorio by Joseph Haydn that depicts the biblical story of the world's creation with vivid choral and orchestral writing.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Creation
this entity surface form:
Die Schöpfung
this entity surface form:
Die Schöpfung