Sergei Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky
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Sergei Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky, better known as Serge Koussevitzky, was a prominent Russian-born American conductor, double-bassist, and music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra renowned for championing contemporary composers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sergei Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky canonical | 2 |
| Kusevitsky | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T498691 — 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.
Target entity: Sergei Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky Context triple: [Serge Koussevitzky, birthName, Sergei Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky]
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Nikolai Sokoloff
Nikolai Sokoloff was a Russian-American conductor best known as the founding music director of the Cleveland Orchestra and a prominent leader in U.S. government-sponsored music initiatives during the New Deal era.
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Sergei Brylin
Sergei Brylin is a former Russian professional ice hockey forward best known for his long NHL career with the New Jersey Devils, with whom he won three Stanley Cup championships.
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Sergei Alliluyev
Sergei Alliluyev was a Russian railway worker and Bolshevik revolutionary best known as the father of Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin’s second wife.
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Nikolai Tikhonov
Nikolai Tikhonov was a Soviet statesman and economist who served as Premier of the Soviet Union during the early 1980s under Leonid Brezhnev and his successors.
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Aleksei Vinogradov
Aleksei Vinogradov was a Soviet military commander best known for leading Red Army forces during the early stages of the Winter War against Finland, including the ill-fated operations around Suomussalmi.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Sergei Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky Target entity description: Sergei Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky, better known as Serge Koussevitzky, was a prominent Russian-born American conductor, double-bassist, and music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra renowned for championing contemporary composers.
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A.
Nikolai Sokoloff
Nikolai Sokoloff was a Russian-American conductor best known as the founding music director of the Cleveland Orchestra and a prominent leader in U.S. government-sponsored music initiatives during the New Deal era.
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B.
Sergei Brylin
Sergei Brylin is a former Russian professional ice hockey forward best known for his long NHL career with the New Jersey Devils, with whom he won three Stanley Cup championships.
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C.
Sergei Alliluyev
Sergei Alliluyev was a Russian railway worker and Bolshevik revolutionary best known as the father of Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin’s second wife.
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D.
Nikolai Tikhonov
Nikolai Tikhonov was a Soviet statesman and economist who served as Premier of the Soviet Union during the early 1980s under Leonid Brezhnev and his successors.
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E.
Aleksei Vinogradov
Aleksei Vinogradov was a Soviet military commander best known for leading Red Army forces during the early stages of the Winter War against Finland, including the ill-fated operations around Suomussalmi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
conductor
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double-bassist ⓘ human ⓘ music director ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Serge Koussevitzky ⓘ |
| citizenshipStatus | Russian-born American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Russian Empire
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United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Boston Symphony Orchestra ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Russian Jews ⓘ |
| familyName |
Sergei Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Kusevitsky
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| fieldOfWork | classical music ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | orchestral music ⓘ |
| givenName | Sergei ⓘ |
| instrument | double bass ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Russian ⓘ |
| movement | 20th-century classical music ⓘ |
| name | Sergei Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Russian ⓘ |
| notableActivity | commissioning works from contemporary composers ⓘ |
| notableFor |
championing contemporary composers
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leadership of the Boston Symphony Orchestra ⓘ |
| notableRole | promoter of new music ⓘ |
| occupation |
conductor
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double-bassist ⓘ impresario ⓘ music director ⓘ music educator ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Russian Empire
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Tver Governorate ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Boston, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Boston
Massachusetts ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld | music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra ⓘ |
| residence |
Boston, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Boston
United States of America ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Boston, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Boston
United States of America ⓘ |
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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.
Subject: Sergei Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky Description of subject: Sergei Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky, better known as Serge Koussevitzky, was a prominent Russian-born American conductor, double-bassist, and music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra renowned for championing contemporary composers.
Referenced by (3)
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