Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety"
E40536
Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety" is Leonard Bernstein’s symphonic work for piano and orchestra inspired by W. H. Auden’s poem of the same name, exploring themes of postwar spiritual crisis and modern alienation.
All labels observed (7)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T312831 — 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: Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety" Context triple: [Leonard Bernstein, notableWork, Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety"]
-
A.
Symphony No. 1 "Jeremiah"
Symphony No. 1 "Jeremiah" is Leonard Bernstein’s early, three-movement symphony for orchestra and mezzo-soprano that reflects themes from the biblical Book of Jeremiah and helped establish his reputation as a serious composer.
-
B.
Serenade after Plato's Symposium
Serenade after Plato's Symposium is a five-movement violin concerto-like work by Leonard Bernstein inspired by Plato’s philosophical dialogue "Symposium."
-
C.
“Scotch Symphony”
“Scotch Symphony” is a neoclassical ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Felix Mendelssohn’s music, inspired by the composer’s Scottish Symphony.
-
D.
Opus 100
Opus 100 is a commemorative collection by Isaac Asimov that showcases excerpts and essays from his first hundred published books, reflecting the breadth of his work in science fiction and popular science.
-
E.
Opus 200
Opus 200 is a non-fiction collection by Isaac Asimov that surveys and reflects on his extensive body of work up to his 200th published book.
- 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: Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety" Target entity description: Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety" is Leonard Bernstein’s symphonic work for piano and orchestra inspired by W. H. Auden’s poem of the same name, exploring themes of postwar spiritual crisis and modern alienation.
-
A.
Symphony No. 1 "Jeremiah"
Symphony No. 1 "Jeremiah" is Leonard Bernstein’s early, three-movement symphony for orchestra and mezzo-soprano that reflects themes from the biblical Book of Jeremiah and helped establish his reputation as a serious composer.
-
B.
Serenade after Plato's Symposium
Serenade after Plato's Symposium is a five-movement violin concerto-like work by Leonard Bernstein inspired by Plato’s philosophical dialogue "Symposium."
-
C.
“Scotch Symphony”
“Scotch Symphony” is a neoclassical ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Felix Mendelssohn’s music, inspired by the composer’s Scottish Symphony.
-
D.
Opus 100
Opus 100 is a commemorative collection by Isaac Asimov that showcases excerpts and essays from his first hundred published books, reflecting the breadth of his work in science fiction and popular science.
-
E.
Opus 200
Opus 200 is a non-fiction collection by Isaac Asimov that surveys and reflects on his extensive body of work up to his 200th published book.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
orchestral work
ⓘ
piano and orchestra work ⓘ symphony ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | The Age of Anxiety ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Age of Anxiety
ⓘ
surface form:
"The Age of Anxiety" by W. H. Auden
|
| catalogCode |
Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety"
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Bernstein Symphony No. 2
|
| composer | Leonard Bernstein ⓘ |
| countryOfPremiere | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateComposed | 1948 ⓘ |
| dateRevised | 1965 ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo |
Natalie Koussevitzky
ⓘ
Serge Koussevitzky ⓘ |
| describes | inner psychological journey of characters ⓘ |
| duration | approximately 35 minutes ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceYear | 1949 ⓘ |
| genre |
20th-century classical music
ⓘ
programmatic symphony ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Part I
ⓘ
Part II ⓘ The Dirge ⓘ The Epilogue ⓘ The Masque ⓘ The Prologue ⓘ The Seven Ages ⓘ The Seven Stages ⓘ |
| influencedBy | World War II aftermath ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
The Age of Anxiety
ⓘ
surface form:
poem "The Age of Anxiety"
|
| key | B-flat major ⓘ |
| language | instrumental ⓘ |
| numberOfMovements | 2 ⓘ |
| opusNumber | none ⓘ |
| placeOfPremiere |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston
|
| premiereConductor | Serge Koussevitzky ⓘ |
| premiereOrchestra | Boston Symphony Orchestra ⓘ |
| premiereSoloist | Leonard Bernstein ⓘ |
| publisher | Boosey & Hawkes ⓘ |
| scoredFor |
orchestra
ⓘ
piano ⓘ |
| style |
jazz-influenced passages
ⓘ
neoclassical elements ⓘ serial techniques in sections ⓘ |
| theme |
existential anxiety
ⓘ
modern alienation ⓘ postwar spiritual crisis ⓘ search for faith ⓘ |
| title | Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety" self-link ⓘ |
| workNumberInComposerOutput |
Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety"
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
second symphony by Leonard Bernstein
|
| workType | symphony for piano and orchestra ⓘ |
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: Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety" Description of subject: Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety" is Leonard Bernstein’s symphonic work for piano and orchestra inspired by W. H. Auden’s poem of the same name, exploring themes of postwar spiritual crisis and modern alienation.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety"
→
catalogCode
→
Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety"
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Bernstein Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety"
→
workNumberInComposerOutput
→
Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety"
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
second symphony by Leonard Bernstein
this entity surface form:
The Age of Anxiety (symphony)
this entity surface form:
Symphony No. 2 (Bernstein)
this entity surface form:
Part I of Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety"
this entity surface form:
Part II of Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety"