Patrick Williams
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Patrick Williams was an American composer, arranger, and conductor renowned for his work in film, television, and jazz.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick Williams canonical | 26 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2253758 — 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: Patrick Williams Context triple: [The Toy, musicBy, Patrick Williams]
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A.
Jason Williams
Jason Williams is the brother of American actress Michelle Williams.
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B.
Reggie Williams
Reggie Williams is a former American professional basketball player best known for his standout college career at Georgetown University and his lengthy NBA tenure, primarily with the Denver Nuggets.
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C.
Dave Wilkins
Dave Wilkins is a musician best known as a member of the Australian rock band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, which was fronted by actor Russell Crowe.
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D.
Luc Longley
Luc Longley is an Australian former professional basketball center best known for winning three consecutive NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s.
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E.
Patrick Carr
Patrick Carr was one of the five colonists fatally wounded in the 1770 Boston Massacre, whose death helped inflame anti-British sentiment in the American colonies.
- 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: Patrick Williams Target entity description: Patrick Williams was an American composer, arranger, and conductor renowned for his work in film, television, and jazz.
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A.
Jason Williams
Jason Williams is the brother of American actress Michelle Williams.
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B.
Reggie Williams
Reggie Williams is a former American professional basketball player best known for his standout college career at Georgetown University and his lengthy NBA tenure, primarily with the Denver Nuggets.
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C.
Dave Wilkins
Dave Wilkins is a musician best known as a member of the Australian rock band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, which was fronted by actor Russell Crowe.
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D.
Luc Longley
Luc Longley is an Australian former professional basketball center best known for winning three consecutive NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s.
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E.
Patrick Carr
Patrick Carr was one of the five colonists fatally wounded in the 1770 Boston Massacre, whose death helped inflame anti-British sentiment in the American colonies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
arranger
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composer ⓘ conductor ⓘ film composer ⓘ human ⓘ jazz composer ⓘ television composer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grammy Award
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Primetime Emmy Award ⓘ
linked to:
Primetime Emmy Awards
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Williams ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film music
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jazz music ⓘ television music ⓘ |
| genre |
film score
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jazz ⓘ television score ⓘ |
| givenName | Patrick ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Count Basie
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Duke Ellington ⓘ modern orchestral film composers ⓘ |
| instrument | piano ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Patrick Williams ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Original Score ⓘ |
| notableFor |
combining jazz idioms with orchestral writing
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contributions to contemporary big band jazz ⓘ prolific work in American television music ⓘ |
| notableWork |
album "An American Concerto"
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album "Threshold" ⓘ score for the film "Breaking Away" ⓘ score for the film "Cuba" ⓘ score for the film "The One and Only" ⓘ score for the television series "Lou Grant" ⓘ score for the television series "The Streets of San Francisco" ⓘ theme music for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" ⓘ |
| occupation |
arranger
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composer ⓘ conductor ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Los Angeles
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New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedOn |
big band jazz arrangements
ⓘ
film scores ⓘ television scores ⓘ |
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: Patrick Williams Description of subject: Patrick Williams was an American composer, arranger, and conductor renowned for his work in film, television, and jazz.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
1982 comedy-drama film "The Toy"
subject linked to:
album "Threshold"
subject linked to:
album "Threshold"
subject linked to:
album "Threshold"
subject linked to:
album "Threshold"
subject linked to:
album "Threshold"
subject linked to:
album "An American Concerto"
subject linked to:
album "An American Concerto"
subject linked to:
album "An American Concerto"
subject linked to:
album "An American Concerto"
subject linked to:
film "All of Me"