The Fly (1986 film score)
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The Fly (1986 film score) is Howard Shore’s dark, atmospheric orchestral soundtrack for David Cronenberg’s science-fiction horror film "The Fly."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Fly (1986 film score) canonical | 2 |
| The Fly (1986 film) original soundtrack | 1 |
| The Fly (1986 film) soundtrack | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1881145 — 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 Fly (1986 film score) Context triple: [Howard Shore, notableWork, The Fly (1986 film score)]
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A.
Alien (1979 film score)
Alien (1979 film score) is Jerry Goldsmith’s atmospheric and suspenseful orchestral soundtrack for Ridley Scott’s science-fiction horror film Alien, renowned for its eerie textures and tension-building themes.
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B.
Poltergeist (1982 film score)
Poltergeist (1982 film score) is a renowned horror film soundtrack composed by Jerry Goldsmith, celebrated for its haunting orchestral themes and innovative use of sound to heighten supernatural terror.
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C.
Gremlins (1984 film score)
Gremlins (1984 film score) is Jerry Goldsmith’s darkly playful and synth-driven soundtrack for the 1984 horror-comedy film, blending mischievous themes with suspenseful orchestration.
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D.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind film score
The "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" film score is John Williams’s landmark, thematically rich orchestral soundtrack renowned for its innovative use of a five-note motif to communicate with extraterrestrials.
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E.
Varèse Sarabande
Varèse Sarabande is a record label renowned for releasing film and television soundtracks and scores.
- 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 Fly (1986 film score) Target entity description: The Fly (1986 film score) is Howard Shore’s dark, atmospheric orchestral soundtrack for David Cronenberg’s science-fiction horror film "The Fly."
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A.
Alien (1979 film score)
Alien (1979 film score) is Jerry Goldsmith’s atmospheric and suspenseful orchestral soundtrack for Ridley Scott’s science-fiction horror film Alien, renowned for its eerie textures and tension-building themes.
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B.
Poltergeist (1982 film score)
Poltergeist (1982 film score) is a renowned horror film soundtrack composed by Jerry Goldsmith, celebrated for its haunting orchestral themes and innovative use of sound to heighten supernatural terror.
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C.
Gremlins (1984 film score)
Gremlins (1984 film score) is Jerry Goldsmith’s darkly playful and synth-driven soundtrack for the 1984 horror-comedy film, blending mischievous themes with suspenseful orchestration.
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D.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind film score
The "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" film score is John Williams’s landmark, thematically rich orchestral soundtrack renowned for its innovative use of a five-note motif to communicate with extraterrestrials.
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E.
Varèse Sarabande
Varèse Sarabande is a record label renowned for releasing film and television soundtracks and scores.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film score
ⓘ
soundtrack album ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Howard Shore ⓘ |
| associatedFranchise |
The Fly
ⓘ
surface form:
The Fly franchise
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| associatedWithDirector | David Cronenberg ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Fly
ⓘ
surface form:
The Fly (1986 film)
|
| composer | Howard Shore ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| forWork |
The Fly
ⓘ
surface form:
The Fly (1986 film)
|
| genre |
film score
ⓘ
horror film score ⓘ orchestral music ⓘ science fiction film score ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOnMood |
horror tone
ⓘ
suspenseful atmosphere ⓘ |
| hasType | original motion picture score ⓘ |
| intendedFor | film accompaniment ⓘ |
| language | instrumental ⓘ |
| medium | audio recording ⓘ |
| musicBy | Howard Shore ⓘ |
| notableFor |
atmospheric horror scoring
ⓘ
dark orchestral textures ⓘ |
| orchestration | full orchestra ⓘ |
| partOf |
The Fly (1986 film score)
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Fly (1986 film) soundtrack
|
| partOfWork |
The Fly (1986 film score)
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Fly (1986 film) original soundtrack
|
| publicationYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| style |
atmospheric
ⓘ
dark ⓘ |
| usedInGenre | science fiction horror film ⓘ |
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 Fly (1986 film score) Description of subject: The Fly (1986 film score) is Howard Shore’s dark, atmospheric orchestral soundtrack for David Cronenberg’s science-fiction horror film "The Fly."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Fly (1986 film) soundtrack
this entity surface form:
The Fly (1986 film) original soundtrack