Madama Butterfly
E293840
Madama Butterfly is a tragic opera set in Japan that tells the story of a young geisha betrayed by her American husband, renowned for its lyrical beauty and emotional intensity.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2714828 — 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: Madama Butterfly Context triple: [Giacomo Puccini, notableWork, Madama Butterfly]
-
A.
Broken Blossoms
Broken Blossoms is a 1919 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, renowned for its poignant interracial love story and innovative cinematic techniques.
-
B.
La Bohème
La Bohème is a 1926 silent romantic drama film directed by King Vidor, adapted from Henri Murger’s "Scènes de la vie de bohème" and best known for its tragic love story set among struggling artists in Paris.
-
C.
The Teahouse of the August Moon
The Teahouse of the August Moon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning Broadway comedy about post–World War II American occupation in Okinawa, later adapted into a successful film and musical.
-
D.
La Bayadère
La Bayadère is a grand 19th-century classical ballet, choreographed by Marius Petipa to music by Ludwig Minkus, renowned for its exotic setting and the iconic "Kingdom of the Shades" scene.
-
E.
Turandot
Turandot is Giacomo Puccini’s final opera, a grand and dramatic work set in mythical China that is renowned for its powerful arias and lavish orchestration.
- 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: Madama Butterfly Target entity description: Madama Butterfly is a tragic opera set in Japan that tells the story of a young geisha betrayed by her American husband, renowned for its lyrical beauty and emotional intensity.
-
A.
Broken Blossoms
Broken Blossoms is a 1919 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, renowned for its poignant interracial love story and innovative cinematic techniques.
-
B.
La Bohème
La Bohème is a 1926 silent romantic drama film directed by King Vidor, adapted from Henri Murger’s "Scènes de la vie de bohème" and best known for its tragic love story set among struggling artists in Paris.
-
C.
The Teahouse of the August Moon
The Teahouse of the August Moon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning Broadway comedy about post–World War II American occupation in Okinawa, later adapted into a successful film and musical.
-
D.
La Bayadère
La Bayadère is a grand 19th-century classical ballet, choreographed by Marius Petipa to music by Ludwig Minkus, renowned for its exotic setting and the iconic "Kingdom of the Shades" scene.
-
E.
Turandot
Turandot is Giacomo Puccini’s final opera, a grand and dramatic work set in mythical China that is renowned for its powerful arias and lavish orchestration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
opera
ⓘ
tragic opera ⓘ |
| actCount | 3 ⓘ |
| alternateLanguageTitle |
Madama Butterfly
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Madame Butterfly
|
| basedOn |
Madama Butterfly
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Madame Butterfly (play)
Madama Butterfly self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Madame Butterfly (short story)
|
| basedOnAuthor |
David Belasco
ⓘ
John Luther Long ⓘ |
| characterRole |
B. F. Pinkerton is a U.S. naval officer
ⓘ
Cio-Cio San ⓘ
surface form:
Cio-Cio-San is a young Japanese geisha
|
| composer | Giacomo Puccini ⓘ |
| duration | approximately 2 hours 30 minutes ⓘ |
| famousAria |
Addio, fiorito asil
ⓘ
Un bel dì vedremo ⓘ Caro mio ben ⓘ
surface form:
Vogliatemi bene
|
| firstVersionReception | initially a failure at La Scala premiere ⓘ |
| genre | verismo ⓘ |
| historicalContext | reflects Western imperial attitudes toward Japan ⓘ |
| influenced | Miss Saigon ⓘ |
| language | Italian ⓘ |
| laterReception | became one of the most frequently performed operas worldwide ⓘ |
| librettist |
Giuseppe Giacosa
ⓘ
Luigi Illica ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
B. F. Pinkerton
ⓘ
Cio-Cio San ⓘ
surface form:
Cio-Cio-San
Sharpless ⓘ Suzuki ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
emotional intensity
ⓘ
lyrical beauty ⓘ |
| operaHouseRepertoireStatus | standard repertory piece ⓘ |
| operaNumberInComposerOutput | fourth opera by Giacomo Puccini ⓘ |
| orchestration | full symphony orchestra ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Madama Butterfly self-link ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 1904-02-17 ⓘ |
| premierePlace |
La Scala
ⓘ
surface form:
Teatro alla Scala, Milan
|
| publisher | Casa Ricordi ⓘ |
| revisedVersionActCount | 2 ⓘ |
| settingCountry | Japan ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Nagasaki ⓘ |
| structure | through-composed with recurring leitmotifs ⓘ |
| theme |
betrayal
ⓘ
cultural clash ⓘ love ⓘ motherhood ⓘ suicide ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| vocalTypeOfCioCioSan | soprano ⓘ |
| vocalTypeOfPinkerton | tenor ⓘ |
| vocalTypeOfSharpless | baritone ⓘ |
| vocalTypeOfSuzuki | mezzo-soprano ⓘ |
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: Madama Butterfly Description of subject: Madama Butterfly is a tragic opera set in Japan that tells the story of a young geisha betrayed by her American husband, renowned for its lyrical beauty and emotional intensity.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Madama Butterfly in Puccini's "Madama Butterfly"
this entity surface form:
"Madama Butterfly"
this entity surface form:
Madame Butterfly
this entity surface form:
M. Butterfly
this entity surface form:
Madame Butterfly
this entity surface form:
Madama Butterfly (opera)
this entity surface form:
Madama Butterfly (Cio-Cio-San)
this entity surface form:
M. Butterfly
this entity surface form:
Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly
this entity surface form:
Madame Butterfly (short story)
this entity surface form:
Madame Butterfly (play)
this entity surface form:
Madame Butterfly
this entity surface form:
M. Butterfly
subject surface form:
Pinkerton