La Monte Young
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La Monte Young is an American composer and musician regarded as a pioneer of minimal music and drone-based composition, known for his radically sustained tones and conceptual approach to sound and time.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| La Monte Young canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5275532 — 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: La Monte Young Context triple: [John Cage, influenced, La Monte Young]
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A.
Don Carlos Smith
Don Carlos Smith was a younger brother of Joseph Smith who served as an early leader and publisher in the Latter Day Saint movement before his death in 1841.
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B.
Gilroy Roberts
Gilroy Roberts was an American sculptor and engraver best known as the ninth Chief Engraver of the U.S. Mint and for creating the obverse portrait of President John F. Kennedy on the Kennedy half dollar.
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C.
Francis Johnson
Francis Johnson was a prominent late 16th- and early 17th-century English Separatist clergyman and leader of an independent exile congregation in Amsterdam.
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D.
Alvin Fuller
Alvin Fuller was an American businessman and Republican politician who served as the 50th governor of Massachusetts from 1925 to 1929.
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E.
John Fred Young
John Fred Young is an American rock drummer best known as a founding member of the band Black Stone Cherry.
- 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: La Monte Young Target entity description: La Monte Young is an American composer and musician regarded as a pioneer of minimal music and drone-based composition, known for his radically sustained tones and conceptual approach to sound and time.
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A.
Don Carlos Smith
Don Carlos Smith was a younger brother of Joseph Smith who served as an early leader and publisher in the Latter Day Saint movement before his death in 1841.
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B.
Gilroy Roberts
Gilroy Roberts was an American sculptor and engraver best known as the ninth Chief Engraver of the U.S. Mint and for creating the obverse portrait of President John F. Kennedy on the Kennedy half dollar.
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C.
Francis Johnson
Francis Johnson was a prominent late 16th- and early 17th-century English Separatist clergyman and leader of an independent exile congregation in Amsterdam.
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D.
Alvin Fuller
Alvin Fuller was an American businessman and Republican politician who served as the 50th governor of Massachusetts from 1925 to 1929.
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E.
John Fred Young
John Fred Young is an American rock drummer best known as a founding member of the band Black Stone Cherry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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drone music pioneer ⓘ human ⓘ minimalist composer ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1950s ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
John Cale
NERFINISHED
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Marian Zazeela NERFINISHED ⓘ Terry Riley NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Conrad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1935-10-14 ⓘ |
| education |
University of California, Berkeley
NERFINISHED
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University of California, Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
conceptual art
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electroacoustic music ⓘ sound art ⓘ |
| genre |
drone music
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experimental music ⓘ minimalism ⓘ |
| givenName | La Monte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Brian Eno
NERFINISHED
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John Cale NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip Glass NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Reich NERFINISHED ⓘ Terry Riley NERFINISHED ⓘ The Velvet Underground NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Conrad NERFINISHED ⓘ drone metal ⓘ |
| knownFor |
conceptual approach to sound and time
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drone-based composition ⓘ pioneering minimal music ⓘ radically sustained tones ⓘ |
| movement |
Fluxus
NERFINISHED
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avant-garde music ⓘ experimental music ⓘ minimal music ⓘ |
| name | La Monte Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Composition 1960 #10 (to Bob Morris)
NERFINISHED
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Composition 1960 #7 NERFINISHED ⓘ Dream House NERFINISHED ⓘ The Four Dreams of China NERFINISHED ⓘ The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Theatre of Eternal Music NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tortoise, His Dreams and Journeys NERFINISHED ⓘ The Well-Tuned Piano NERFINISHED ⓘ Trio for Strings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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musician ⓘ pianist ⓘ saxophonist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bern, Idaho, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Marian Zazeela NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studiedUnder |
Karlheinz Stockhausen
NERFINISHED
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Leonard Stein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesTuningSystem |
extended tuning systems
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just intonation ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
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Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.