Carlo Gesualdo
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Carlo Gesualdo was a late Renaissance Italian nobleman-composer famed for his intensely chromatic, emotionally extreme madrigals and for the notorious murder of his wife and her lover.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Carlo Gesualdo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6316146 — 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: Carlo Gesualdo Context triple: [Giaches de Wert, influenced, Carlo Gesualdo]
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A.
Gian Francesco
Gian Francesco is the Italian given name of the early Renaissance humanist and scholar Poggio Bracciolini.
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B.
Giovanni Muzio
Giovanni Muzio was a prominent 20th-century Italian architect associated with the Novecento Italiano movement, known for his rationalist yet classically influenced designs in Italy and abroad.
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C.
Antonio Caldara
Antonio Caldara was an Italian Baroque composer renowned for his operas, oratorios, and sacred music, active in major European courts in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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D.
Luzzasco Luzzaschi
Luzzasco Luzzaschi was a late Renaissance Italian composer, organist, and teacher renowned for his virtuosic madrigals and service at the Este court in Ferrara.
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E.
Domenico Silvestri
Domenico Silvestri is an Italian name shared by several individuals, most commonly associated with figures in fields such as sports and the arts.
- 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: Carlo Gesualdo Target entity description: Carlo Gesualdo was a late Renaissance Italian nobleman-composer famed for his intensely chromatic, emotionally extreme madrigals and for the notorious murder of his wife and her lover.
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A.
Gian Francesco
Gian Francesco is the Italian given name of the early Renaissance humanist and scholar Poggio Bracciolini.
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B.
Giovanni Muzio
Giovanni Muzio was a prominent 20th-century Italian architect associated with the Novecento Italiano movement, known for his rationalist yet classically influenced designs in Italy and abroad.
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C.
Antonio Caldara
Antonio Caldara was an Italian Baroque composer renowned for his operas, oratorios, and sacred music, active in major European courts in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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D.
Luzzasco Luzzaschi
Luzzasco Luzzaschi was a late Renaissance Italian composer, organist, and teacher renowned for his virtuosic madrigals and service at the Este court in Ferrara.
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E.
Domenico Silvestri
Domenico Silvestri is an Italian name shared by several individuals, most commonly associated with figures in fields such as sports and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Italian nobleman
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Renaissance composer ⓘ composer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
Ferrara
NERFINISHED
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Naples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthCountry | Kingdom of Naples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1566-03-08 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Venosa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| committedHomicide |
Fabrizio Carafa
NERFINISHED
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Maria d’Avalos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfMarriage | 1586-02-28 ⓘ |
| deathCountry | Kingdom of Naples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1613-09-08 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Gesualdo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Gesualdo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Fabrizio II Gesualdo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
madrigal
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sacred music ⓘ |
| givenName | Carlo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| homicideDate | 1590-10-16 ⓘ |
| homicidePlace | Palazzo San Severo, Naples NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| house | House of Gesualdo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
20th-century composers
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Alfred Schnittke NERFINISHED ⓘ Igor Stravinsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Cipriano de Rore
NERFINISHED
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Luca Marenzio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
expressive text setting
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intensely chromatic madrigals ⓘ murder of his first wife and her lover ⓘ |
| languageOfLyrics | Italian ⓘ |
| marriedTo | Maria d’Avalos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Giovanna d’Aragona NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Late Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Count of Conza
NERFINISHED
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Prince of Venosa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Madrigali libro quinto
NERFINISHED
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Madrigali libro sesto NERFINISHED ⓘ Tenebrae Responsories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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lutenist ⓘ |
| primaryInstrument | lute ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholic ⓘ |
| spouse |
Eleonora d’Este
NERFINISHED
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Maria d’Avalos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
extreme chromaticism
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intense word painting ⓘ sudden harmonic shifts ⓘ |
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