“La Valse”
E7647
“La Valse” is a darkly atmospheric ballet set to Maurice Ravel’s waltz, famously choreographed by George Balanchine and noted for its themes of glamour and impending doom.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Valse | 1 |
| La Valse (Ravel waltz) | 1 |
| The Waltz | 1 |
| “La Valse” canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T68498 — 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 Valse” Context triple: [The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, repertoireIncludes, “La Valse”]
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A.
“Don Quixote” (Balanchine version)
“Don Quixote” (Balanchine version) is George Balanchine’s neoclassical ballet adaptation of Cervantes’ novel, originally created for the New York City Ballet and later performed by companies such as The Suzanne Farrell Ballet.
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B.
“Chaconne”
“Chaconne” is a neoclassical ballet choreographed by George Balanchine, set to music by Christoph Willibald Gluck and known for its elegant, courtly style.
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C.
“Scotch Symphony”
“Scotch Symphony” is a neoclassical ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Felix Mendelssohn’s music, inspired by the composer’s Scottish Symphony.
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D.
Blue Room
The Blue Room is an oval-shaped ceremonial reception room on the first floor of the White House, traditionally decorated in blue and used for formal gatherings and receiving guests.
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E.
White Nights
White Nights is a natural phenomenon in St. Petersburg where, around the summer solstice, the sun barely sets and the city remains bathed in twilight almost all night.
- 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 Valse” Target entity description: “La Valse” is a darkly atmospheric ballet set to Maurice Ravel’s waltz, famously choreographed by George Balanchine and noted for its themes of glamour and impending doom.
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A.
“Don Quixote” (Balanchine version)
“Don Quixote” (Balanchine version) is George Balanchine’s neoclassical ballet adaptation of Cervantes’ novel, originally created for the New York City Ballet and later performed by companies such as The Suzanne Farrell Ballet.
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B.
“Chaconne”
“Chaconne” is a neoclassical ballet choreographed by George Balanchine, set to music by Christoph Willibald Gluck and known for its elegant, courtly style.
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C.
“Scotch Symphony”
“Scotch Symphony” is a neoclassical ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to Felix Mendelssohn’s music, inspired by the composer’s Scottish Symphony.
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D.
Blue Room
The Blue Room is an oval-shaped ceremonial reception room on the first floor of the White House, traditionally decorated in blue and used for formal gatherings and receiving guests.
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E.
White Nights
White Nights is a natural phenomenon in St. Petersburg where, around the summer solstice, the sun barely sets and the city remains bathed in twilight almost all night.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ballet
ⓘ
choreographic work ⓘ |
| artForm |
ballet
ⓘ
dance ⓘ |
| associatedChoreographer | George Balanchine ⓘ |
| associatedComposer | Maurice Ravel ⓘ |
| basedOn |
“La Valse”
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
La Valse (Ravel waltz)
|
| choreographer | George Balanchine ⓘ |
| composer | Maurice Ravel ⓘ |
| costumeStyle |
evening gowns
ⓘ
formal dress ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
dramatic ballet
ⓘ
neoclassical ballet ⓘ |
| hasChoreographicFocus |
dramatic climax
ⓘ
duets and trios ⓘ group patterns ⓘ |
| hasMood |
darkly atmospheric
ⓘ
ominous ⓘ romantic ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
death
ⓘ
decadence ⓘ destruction ⓘ fatal attraction ⓘ glamour ⓘ impending doom ⓘ |
| language | non-verbal ⓘ |
| movementType | waltz ⓘ |
| movementVocabulary |
classical ballet technique
ⓘ
neoclassical style ⓘ |
| narrativeType | symbolic ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complex ensemble choreography
ⓘ
contrast between glamour and catastrophe ⓘ integration of Ravel’s waltz with dark dramatic imagery ⓘ psychological intensity ⓘ |
| originalMusicTitleLanguage | French ⓘ |
| performanceMedium | stage ⓘ |
| period | 20th-century ballet repertoire ⓘ |
| premiereCompany | New York City Ballet ⓘ |
| requires |
ballet company
ⓘ
orchestra or recorded orchestral music ⓘ |
| setting |
ballroom
ⓘ
elegant social gathering ⓘ |
| structure | one-act ballet ⓘ |
| style | abstract narrative ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | French ⓘ |
| titleMeaning |
“La Valse”
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Waltz
|
| usesMusic | orchestral score ⓘ |
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: “La Valse” Description of subject: “La Valse” is a darkly atmospheric ballet set to Maurice Ravel’s waltz, famously choreographed by George Balanchine and noted for its themes of glamour and impending doom.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
La Valse
this entity surface form:
La Valse (Ravel waltz)
subject surface form:
La Valse
this entity surface form:
The Waltz
this entity surface form:
La Valse