György Ligeti
E430036
György Ligeti was a pioneering 20th-century Hungarian-Austrian composer known for his innovative use of micropolyphony and influential works such as "Atmosphères" and the "Requiem," which gained wide recognition through their use in Stanley Kubrick’s film "2001: A Space Odyssey."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| György Ligeti canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4311769 — 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: György Ligeti Context triple: [Theodor W. Adorno Award, notableRecipient, György Ligeti]
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A.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen was a pioneering 20th-century German composer known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, serialism, and spatialization of sound.
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B.
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and pioneering ethnomusicologist whose innovative integration of folk music and modernist techniques made him one of the most important composers of the 20th century.
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C.
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez was a pioneering 20th-century French composer, conductor, and influential advocate of avant-garde and serial music.
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D.
Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt is an Estonian composer renowned for his spiritually inspired minimalist style, particularly his distinctive tintinnabuli technique.
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E.
Anton Webern
Anton Webern was an Austrian composer and conductor of the Second Viennese School, known for his highly concise, atonal, and twelve-tone works that were hugely influential on 20th-century modernist music.
- 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: György Ligeti Target entity description: György Ligeti was a pioneering 20th-century Hungarian-Austrian composer known for his innovative use of micropolyphony and influential works such as "Atmosphères" and the "Requiem," which gained wide recognition through their use in Stanley Kubrick’s film "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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A.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen was a pioneering 20th-century German composer known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, serialism, and spatialization of sound.
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B.
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and pioneering ethnomusicologist whose innovative integration of folk music and modernist techniques made him one of the most important composers of the 20th century.
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C.
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez was a pioneering 20th-century French composer, conductor, and influential advocate of avant-garde and serial music.
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D.
Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt is an Estonian composer renowned for his spiritually inspired minimalist style, particularly his distinctive tintinnabuli technique.
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E.
Anton Webern
Anton Webern was an Austrian composer and conductor of the Second Viennese School, known for his highly concise, atonal, and twelve-tone works that were hugely influential on 20th-century modernist music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
20th-century composer
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Hungarian-Austrian composer ⓘ classical composer ⓘ composer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition
NERFINISHED
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Leonie Sonning Music Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Wolf Prize in Arts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | György Sándor Ligeti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | complications of long illness ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Austria
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Hungary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Kingdom of Romania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Austria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1923-05-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2006-06-12 ⓘ |
| employer |
Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg
NERFINISHED
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Stanford University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Hungarian ⓘ |
| familyName | Ligeti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
chamber music
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choral music ⓘ contemporary classical music ⓘ orchestral music ⓘ |
| givenName | György NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Brian Ferneyhough
NERFINISHED
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Thomas Adès NERFINISHED ⓘ Unsuk Chin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Béla Bartók
NERFINISHED
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Claude Debussy NERFINISHED ⓘ György Kurtág NERFINISHED ⓘ Johann Sebastian Bach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative orchestral textures
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micropolyphony ⓘ |
| movement |
avant-garde music
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contemporary classical music ⓘ |
| name | György Ligeti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Atmosphères
NERFINISHED
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Aventures NERFINISHED ⓘ Hamburg Concerto NERFINISHED ⓘ Le Grand Macabre NERFINISHED ⓘ Lontano NERFINISHED ⓘ Lux Aeterna NERFINISHED ⓘ Nouvelles Aventures NERFINISHED ⓘ Piano Etudes NERFINISHED ⓘ Requiem NERFINISHED ⓘ String Quartet No. 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ String Quartet No. 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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music educator ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Dicsőszentmárton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Vienna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workFeaturedIn | 2001: A Space Odyssey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: György Ligeti Description of subject: György Ligeti was a pioneering 20th-century Hungarian-Austrian composer known for his innovative use of micropolyphony and influential works such as "Atmosphères" and the "Requiem," which gained wide recognition through their use in Stanley Kubrick’s film "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.