Edmund Meisel
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Edmund Meisel was a German composer best known for his pioneering, politically charged film scores for silent cinema, particularly his work on Soviet montage films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edmund Meisel canonical | 4 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edmund Meisel Context triple: [Battleship Potemkin, musicBy, Edmund Meisel]
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Otto Rosenfeld
Otto Rosenfeld, better known as Otto Rank, was an influential Austrian psychoanalyst and close early collaborator of Sigmund Freud who became a pioneering theorist of creativity, will, and the psychology of birth trauma.
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B.
Irving Brecher
Irving Brecher was an American screenwriter best known for his work on Marx Brothers comedies and classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Leo Friedlander
Leo Friedlander was an American sculptor known for his large-scale public monuments and architectural sculpture, particularly in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Maurice Braun
Maurice Braun was an American Impressionist painter best known for his luminous California landscapes and as a key figure in the California Impressionism movement.
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E.
Victor Finkelstein
Victor Finkelstein was a pioneering disability rights activist and theorist who helped shape the social model of disability in the United Kingdom.
- 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: Edmund Meisel Target entity description: Edmund Meisel was a German composer best known for his pioneering, politically charged film scores for silent cinema, particularly his work on Soviet montage films.
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A.
Otto Rosenfeld
Otto Rosenfeld, better known as Otto Rank, was an influential Austrian psychoanalyst and close early collaborator of Sigmund Freud who became a pioneering theorist of creativity, will, and the psychology of birth trauma.
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B.
Irving Brecher
Irving Brecher was an American screenwriter best known for his work on Marx Brothers comedies and classic Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Leo Friedlander
Leo Friedlander was an American sculptor known for his large-scale public monuments and architectural sculpture, particularly in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Maurice Braun
Maurice Braun was an American Impressionist painter best known for his luminous California landscapes and as a key figure in the California Impressionism movement.
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E.
Victor Finkelstein
Victor Finkelstein was a pioneering disability rights activist and theorist who helped shape the social model of disability in the United Kingdom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German person
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composer ⓘ film score composer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1930 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1920 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Weimar culture
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surface form:
Weimar Republic cinema
avant-garde film ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stomach ulcer ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Sergei Eisenstein
ⓘ
Walter Ruttmann ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth |
Austro-Hungarian Empire
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surface form:
Austria-Hungary
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1894-08-14 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1930-11-14 ⓘ |
| employer | Piscator-Bühne ⓘ |
| familyName | Meisel ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film music
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silent film music ⓘ theatre music ⓘ |
| genre |
film score
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orchestral music ⓘ |
| givenName | Edmund ⓘ |
| influenced | later film composers for political cinema ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Soviet montage school
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surface form:
Soviet montage theory
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| knownFor |
close synchronization of music to film editing
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use of music to intensify political messages in film ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| movement |
Soviet montage school
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surface form:
Soviet montage cinema
politically engaged art ⓘ |
| name | Edmund Meisel self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| notableFor |
pioneering film music for Soviet montage films
ⓘ
politically charged film scores for silent cinema ⓘ |
| notableWork |
film score for Battleship Potemkin
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film score for Berlin: Symphony of a Great City ⓘ film score for October ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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film score composer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Vienna ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Berlin ⓘ |
| residence | Berlin ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Battleship Potemkin
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surface form:
Battleship Potemkin (1926 German release score)
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City ⓘ October: Ten Days That Shook the World ⓘ
surface form:
October (Ten Days That Shook the World)
The Crimson Circle ⓘ The Holy Mountain (Der heilige Berg) ⓘ |
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