Biped
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Biped is a groundbreaking 1999 dance work by choreographer Merce Cunningham that integrates live performance with innovative motion-capture–based digital projections.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Biped canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8895357 — 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: Biped Context triple: [Merce Cunningham, notableWork, Biped]
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Bantoid
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Dactyl
Dactyl is a small natural satellite orbiting the asteroid 243 Ida, notable as the first confirmed moon of an asteroid ever discovered.
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Tetrapla
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Birs
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Ferebee
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- 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: Biped Target entity description: Biped is a groundbreaking 1999 dance work by choreographer Merce Cunningham that integrates live performance with innovative motion-capture–based digital projections.
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A.
Bantoid
Bantoid is a major branch of the Niger-Congo language family that includes the Bantu languages and several closely related non-Bantu groups spoken primarily in Central and West Africa.
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B.
Dactyl
Dactyl is a small natural satellite orbiting the asteroid 243 Ida, notable as the first confirmed moon of an asteroid ever discovered.
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C.
Tetrapla
The Tetrapla is an ancient four-column edition of the Hebrew Bible, traditionally attributed to Origen, that presented multiple Greek versions side by side for textual comparison.
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D.
Birs
The Birs is a river in northwestern Switzerland that flows through the Jura region before joining the Rhine near Basel.
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E.
Ferebee
Ferebee is an English-language surname borne by various notable individuals, including figures in American military and public life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
contemporary dance piece
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dance work ⓘ stage work ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
digital dance
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experimental choreography ⓘ |
| choreographer | Merce Cunningham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissionedBy |
Barbican Centre
NERFINISHED
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Cal Performances NERFINISHED ⓘ Festival d’Automne à Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts NERFINISHED ⓘ Opéra National de Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ Théâtre de la Ville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Gavin Bryars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| costumeDesignBy | Suzanne Gallo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Merce Cunningham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | contemporary dance ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
choreographed dance
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computer-generated imagery ⓘ music by Gavin Bryars ⓘ |
| hasDurationApprox | about 45 minutes ⓘ |
| hasRecording | video documentation of stage performance ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| influenced | later multimedia dance works ⓘ |
| lightingDesignBy | James F. Ingalls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movementStyle | Merce Cunningham technique ⓘ |
| notableFor |
innovative use of digital technology in choreography
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integration of motion-capture–based projections with live dance ⓘ |
| partOf | Merce Cunningham repertory ⓘ |
| performedBy | Merce Cunningham Dance Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedIn |
France
NERFINISHED
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United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premieredAt | Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 1999-04-23 ⓘ |
| premiereYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| titleMeaning | two-footed or two-legged being ⓘ |
| usesMedium |
digital projection
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live performance ⓘ |
| usesTechnology | motion capture ⓘ |
| visualDesignBy |
Paul Kaiser
NERFINISHED
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Shelley Eshkar 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: Biped Description of subject: Biped is a groundbreaking 1999 dance work by choreographer Merce Cunningham that integrates live performance with innovative motion-capture–based digital projections.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.