Arthur Sullivan
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Arthur Sullivan was a 19th-century English composer best known for his comic operas created in collaboration with librettist W. S. Gilbert, such as "H.M.S. Pinafore" and "The Mikado."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arthur Sullivan canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4569282 — 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: Arthur Sullivan Context triple: [Sullivan, hasNotableBearer, Arthur Sullivan]
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A.
Horatio Bottomley
Horatio Bottomley was a flamboyant British financier, journalist, and politician notorious for his role in major financial scandals in the early 20th century.
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B.
Rupert Psmith
Rupert Psmith is a witty, impeccably dressed, and verbally flamboyant young Englishman who stars in several humorous P. G. Wodehouse stories.
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C.
Tom Sayers
Tom Sayers was a celebrated 19th-century English bare-knuckle prizefighter regarded as one of the greatest boxers of his era.
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D.
Frank Campion
Frank Campion is a Canadian municipal politician who serves as the mayor of Welland, Ontario.
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E.
Chichester Bell
Chichester Bell was an Irish chemist and inventor, best known for his work in acoustics and early sound recording technologies alongside Alexander Graham Bell.
- 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: Arthur Sullivan Target entity description: Arthur Sullivan was a 19th-century English composer best known for his comic operas created in collaboration with librettist W. S. Gilbert, such as "H.M.S. Pinafore" and "The Mikado."
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A.
Horatio Bottomley
Horatio Bottomley was a flamboyant British financier, journalist, and politician notorious for his role in major financial scandals in the early 20th century.
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B.
Rupert Psmith
Rupert Psmith is a witty, impeccably dressed, and verbally flamboyant young Englishman who stars in several humorous P. G. Wodehouse stories.
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C.
Tom Sayers
Tom Sayers was a celebrated 19th-century English bare-knuckle prizefighter regarded as one of the greatest boxers of his era.
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D.
Frank Campion
Frank Campion is a Canadian municipal politician who serves as the mayor of Welland, Ontario.
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E.
Chichester Bell
Chichester Bell was an Irish chemist and inventor, best known for his work in acoustics and early sound recording technologies alongside Alexander Graham Bell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English composer
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Romantic-era composer ⓘ composer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Knight Bachelor ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1842-05-13 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Lambeth, London, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | St Paul’s Cathedral, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1900-11-22 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | London, England ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Leipzig Conservatory
NERFINISHED
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Royal Academy of Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Thomas Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Arthur Seymour Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
choral music
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comic opera ⓘ operetta ⓘ orchestral music ⓘ sacred music ⓘ song ⓘ |
| givenName | Arthur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Sir ⓘ |
| influenced | English light opera ⓘ |
| knownFor | comic operas with W. S. Gilbert ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Clementina Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Victorian music ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
H.M.S. Pinafore
NERFINISHED
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Iolanthe NERFINISHED ⓘ Onward, Christian Soldiers NERFINISHED ⓘ Overture di Ballo NERFINISHED ⓘ Patience NERFINISHED ⓘ Princess Ida NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruddigore NERFINISHED ⓘ The Gondoliers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Grand Duke NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lost Chord NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mikado NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pirates of Penzance NERFINISHED ⓘ The Yeomen of the Guard NERFINISHED ⓘ Utopia, Limited NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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conductor ⓘ organist ⓘ |
| partnerInCollaboration | W. S. Gilbert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Conductor of the Leeds Festival
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Principal of the National Training School for Music ⓘ |
| sibling | Fred Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studentOf |
Ignaz Moscheles
NERFINISHED
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Julius Rietz NERFINISHED ⓘ Moritz Hauptmann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Arthur Sullivan Description of subject: Arthur Sullivan was a 19th-century English composer best known for his comic operas created in collaboration with librettist W. S. Gilbert, such as "H.M.S. Pinafore" and "The Mikado."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
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