Jerry Goldsmith
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Jerry Goldsmith was an acclaimed American film and television composer known for his innovative and influential scores for works such as "Planet of the Apes," "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," and "The Omen."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jerry Goldsmith canonical | 124 |
| Jerry Goldsmith filmography | 2 |
| Jerry Goldsmith (uncredited, often cited) | 1 |
| Jerry Goldsmith soundtracks | 1 |
| Jerry Goldsmith wrote and conducted the score | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T173372 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jerry Goldsmith Context triple: [Backstairs at the White House, composer, Jerry Goldsmith]
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John Williams
John Williams is an acclaimed American composer and conductor best known for his iconic film scores for franchises such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, and many others.
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Ramin Djawadi
Ramin Djawadi is a German-Iranian composer best known for his powerful, cinematic scores for film and television, including Game of Thrones, Westworld, and major blockbuster movies.
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C.
John Barry
John Barry was an Irish-born American naval officer renowned as one of the founding captains of the United States Navy during the American Revolutionary era.
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D.
Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer is a renowned German film composer celebrated for his influential, award-winning scores for major Hollywood blockbusters such as The Lion King, Gladiator, Inception, and The Dark Knight trilogy.
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E.
Alan Silvestri
Alan Silvestri is an American composer best known for his prolific film scores, including iconic work on movies such as the Back to the Future trilogy and numerous Marvel Cinematic Universe films.
- 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: Jerry Goldsmith Target entity description: Jerry Goldsmith was an acclaimed American film and television composer known for his innovative and influential scores for works such as "Planet of the Apes," "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," and "The Omen."
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A.
John Williams
John Williams is an acclaimed American composer and conductor best known for his iconic film scores for franchises such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, and many others.
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B.
Ramin Djawadi
Ramin Djawadi is a German-Iranian composer best known for his powerful, cinematic scores for film and television, including Game of Thrones, Westworld, and major blockbuster movies.
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C.
John Barry
John Barry was an Irish-born American naval officer renowned as one of the founding captains of the United States Navy during the American Revolutionary era.
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D.
Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer is a renowned German film composer celebrated for his influential, award-winning scores for major Hollywood blockbusters such as The Lion King, Gladiator, Inception, and The Dark Knight trilogy.
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E.
Alan Silvestri
Alan Silvestri is an American composer best known for his prolific film scores, including iconic work on movies such as the Back to the Future trilogy and numerous Marvel Cinematic Universe films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (60)
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: Jerry Goldsmith Description of subject: Jerry Goldsmith was an acclaimed American film and television composer known for his innovative and influential scores for works such as "Planet of the Apes," "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," and "The Omen."
Referenced by (129)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jerry Goldsmith wrote and conducted the score
this entity surface form:
Jerry Goldsmith filmography
this entity surface form:
Jerry Goldsmith filmography