The Moor
E757839
The Moor is a central character in Igor Stravinsky’s ballet "Petrushka," portrayed as a flamboyant, exotic rival to the puppet Petrushka for the affections of the Ballerina.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Moor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8770504 — 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: The Moor Context triple: [Petrushka, featuresCharacter, The Moor]
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A.
Il Moro
Il Moro is the Italian nickname of Ludovico Sforza, the powerful Renaissance Duke of Milan and patron of Leonardo da Vinci.
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B.
Oroonoko
Oroonoko is a 1688 prose narrative by Aphra Behn that tells the tragic story of an African prince enslaved in Suriname and is often regarded as an early precursor to the English novel and a significant anti-slavery text.
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C.
The Moor's Last Sigh
The Moor's Last Sigh is a 1995 novel by Salman Rushdie that blends family saga, magical realism, and political commentary to trace the turbulent history of a Jewish-Catholic spice-trading family in India.
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D.
Sarrasine
Sarrasine is a novella by Honoré de Balzac that explores themes of art, gender, and obsession through the story of a French sculptor’s infatuation with a castrato singer in Rome.
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E.
The Just Men of Cordova
The Just Men of Cordova is a 1917 crime novel by Edgar Wallace that continues the adventures of a secretive vigilante group dispensing extrajudicial justice.
- 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: The Moor Target entity description: The Moor is a central character in Igor Stravinsky’s ballet "Petrushka," portrayed as a flamboyant, exotic rival to the puppet Petrushka for the affections of the Ballerina.
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A.
Il Moro
Il Moro is the Italian nickname of Ludovico Sforza, the powerful Renaissance Duke of Milan and patron of Leonardo da Vinci.
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B.
Oroonoko
Oroonoko is a 1688 prose narrative by Aphra Behn that tells the tragic story of an African prince enslaved in Suriname and is often regarded as an early precursor to the English novel and a significant anti-slavery text.
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C.
The Moor's Last Sigh
The Moor's Last Sigh is a 1995 novel by Salman Rushdie that blends family saga, magical realism, and political commentary to trace the turbulent history of a Jewish-Catholic spice-trading family in India.
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D.
Sarrasine
Sarrasine is a novella by Honoré de Balzac that explores themes of art, gender, and obsession through the story of a French sculptor’s infatuation with a castrato singer in Rome.
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E.
The Just Men of Cordova
The Just Men of Cordova is a 1917 crime novel by Edgar Wallace that continues the adventures of a secretive vigilante group dispensing extrajudicial justice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ballet character
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character in Petrushka ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Petrushka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | ballet ⓘ |
| artFormOfWork | ballet ⓘ |
| associatedWithWorkPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| characterType |
exotic
ⓘ
flamboyant ⓘ |
| competesForAffectionOf | Ballerina (Petrushka) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competesForAffectionWith | Petrushka (character) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composerOfWorkCreator | Igor Stravinsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| costumeStyle | orientalist ⓘ |
| creator | Igor Stravinsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| emotionalTone |
brash
ⓘ
self-confident ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceCityOfWork | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceCompanyOfWork | Ballets Russes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceLocationOfWork | Théâtre du Châtelet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceOfWork | 1911 ⓘ |
| hasSceneWith |
Ballerina (Petrushka)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Petrushka (character) NERFINISHED ⓘ Showman (Petrushka) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedByContext | Russian folk culture ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | instrumental (no spoken dialogue) ⓘ |
| loveInterestOf | Ballerina (Petrushka) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | stage performance ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | contrast to Petrushka’s vulnerability ⓘ |
| nationalityContextOfWork | Russian ⓘ |
| originalProductionDesignerOfWork | Alexandre Benois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | male dancer ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Petrushka (ballet) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rivalOf | Petrushka (character) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative |
antagonist to Petrushka
ⓘ
romantic rival ⓘ |
| settingOfWork | Shrovetide Fair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| species | human ⓘ |
| workChoreographer | Michel Fokine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLibrettist |
Alexandre Benois
NERFINISHED
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Igor Stravinsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
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: The Moor Description of subject: The Moor is a central character in Igor Stravinsky’s ballet "Petrushka," portrayed as a flamboyant, exotic rival to the puppet Petrushka for the affections of the Ballerina.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.