opera "Billy Budd"
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The opera "Billy Budd" is Benjamin Britten’s English-language adaptation of Herman Melville’s novella, focusing on moral conflict and injustice aboard a British warship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| opera "Billy Budd" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5600898 — 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: opera "Billy Budd" Context triple: [Billy Budd, adaptedAs, opera "Billy Budd"]
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A.
The People’s Opera
The People’s Opera is the popular nickname for New York City Opera, a company long known for its accessible, affordable productions and support of American opera.
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B.
opera "The Queen of Spades"
"The Queen of Spades" is a Russian opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, based on Alexander Pushkin’s novella about obsession, gambling, and fate.
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C.
The Great Gatsby (opera)
The Great Gatsby (opera) is John Harbison’s operatic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, blending jazz-inflected music with 1920s American themes of wealth, love, and disillusionment.
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D.
opera "Eugene Onegin"
"Eugene Onegin" is a lyric opera in three acts by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, based on Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse and renowned as one of the central works of the Russian operatic repertoire.
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E.
The Lisbon Traviata
The Lisbon Traviata is a darkly comic play by Terrence McNally that explores obsession, friendship, and gay identity through the lens of opera fandom and personal betrayal.
- 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: opera "Billy Budd" Target entity description: The opera "Billy Budd" is Benjamin Britten’s English-language adaptation of Herman Melville’s novella, focusing on moral conflict and injustice aboard a British warship.
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A.
The People’s Opera
The People’s Opera is the popular nickname for New York City Opera, a company long known for its accessible, affordable productions and support of American opera.
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B.
opera "The Queen of Spades"
"The Queen of Spades" is a Russian opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, based on Alexander Pushkin’s novella about obsession, gambling, and fate.
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C.
The Great Gatsby (opera)
The Great Gatsby (opera) is John Harbison’s operatic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, blending jazz-inflected music with 1920s American themes of wealth, love, and disillusionment.
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D.
opera "Eugene Onegin"
"Eugene Onegin" is a lyric opera in three acts by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, based on Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse and renowned as one of the central works of the Russian operatic repertoire.
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E.
The Lisbon Traviata
The Lisbon Traviata is a darkly comic play by Terrence McNally that explores obsession, friendship, and gay identity through the lens of opera fandom and personal betrayal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | opera ⓘ |
| actCount |
four (original version)
ⓘ
two (revised version) ⓘ |
| basedOn | Billy Budd, Sailor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Herman Melville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| catalogueNumber | Op. 50 ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Benjamin Britten NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
20th-century opera
ⓘ
opera ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| librettist |
E. M. Forster
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eric Crozier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationalityOfComposer | British ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
all-male cast
ⓘ
psychological drama ⓘ sea-faring setting ⓘ |
| orchestration | large orchestra ⓘ |
| premiereCity | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 1951-12-01 ⓘ |
| premierePlace | Royal Opera House, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| principalCharacter |
Billy Budd
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Captain Edward Fairfax Vere NERFINISHED ⓘ John Claggart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| principalVoiceType |
baritone (Billy Budd)
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bass (Claggart) NERFINISHED ⓘ tenor (Captain Vere) ⓘ |
| revisedVersionPremiereDate | 1964-01-13 ⓘ |
| setting |
British Royal Navy warship
ⓘ
HMS Indomitable NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingEventContext | French Revolutionary Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | 1797 ⓘ |
| structure |
Act I
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Act II NERFINISHED ⓘ Epilogue ⓘ Prologue ⓘ |
| style | 20th-century British opera ⓘ |
| subject |
capital punishment
ⓘ
military law ⓘ naval discipline ⓘ |
| theme |
abuse of power
ⓘ
good and evil ⓘ injustice ⓘ innocence and guilt ⓘ moral conflict ⓘ |
| vocalForces |
boys’ voices (offstage or separate chorus)
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male voices only ⓘ men’s chorus ⓘ |
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Subject: opera "Billy Budd" Description of subject: The opera "Billy Budd" is Benjamin Britten’s English-language adaptation of Herman Melville’s novella, focusing on moral conflict and injustice aboard a British warship.
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