Paris, Texas (film score)
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Paris, Texas is a haunting, slide-guitar-driven film score by Ry Cooder, acclaimed for its sparse, atmospheric sound that powerfully underscores Wim Wenders’ 1984 road movie.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paris, Texas (film score) canonical | 1 |
| Paris, Texas (soundtrack) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3496331 — 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: Paris, Texas (film score) Context triple: [Ry Cooder, notableWork, Paris, Texas (film score)]
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A.
Days of Heaven (score)
Days of Heaven (score) is Ennio Morricone’s acclaimed, lyrical film soundtrack known for its haunting melodies and evocative atmosphere in Terrence Malick’s 1978 drama.
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B.
American Beauty (film score)
American Beauty (film score) is a critically acclaimed, minimalist and atmospheric film soundtrack composed by Thomas Newman for the 1999 drama film "American Beauty."
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C.
Synecdoche, New York (film score)
Synecdoche, New York (film score) is the atmospheric and emotionally intricate musical soundtrack composed by Jon Brion for Charlie Kaufman’s 2008 metafictional drama film.
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D.
L.A. Confidential (1997 film score)
L.A. Confidential (1997 film score) is a neo-noir orchestral soundtrack by composer Jerry Goldsmith, acclaimed for its atmospheric blend of jazz-inflected themes and tense, dramatic scoring that complements the film’s dark, 1950s Los Angeles setting.
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E.
Papillon (1973 film score)
Papillon (1973 film score) is a dramatic and atmospheric film soundtrack composed by Jerry Goldsmith for the 1973 prison escape drama "Papillon."
- 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: Paris, Texas (film score) Target entity description: Paris, Texas is a haunting, slide-guitar-driven film score by Ry Cooder, acclaimed for its sparse, atmospheric sound that powerfully underscores Wim Wenders’ 1984 road movie.
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A.
Days of Heaven (score)
Days of Heaven (score) is Ennio Morricone’s acclaimed, lyrical film soundtrack known for its haunting melodies and evocative atmosphere in Terrence Malick’s 1978 drama.
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B.
American Beauty (film score)
American Beauty (film score) is a critically acclaimed, minimalist and atmospheric film soundtrack composed by Thomas Newman for the 1999 drama film "American Beauty."
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C.
Synecdoche, New York (film score)
Synecdoche, New York (film score) is the atmospheric and emotionally intricate musical soundtrack composed by Jon Brion for Charlie Kaufman’s 2008 metafictional drama film.
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D.
L.A. Confidential (1997 film score)
L.A. Confidential (1997 film score) is a neo-noir orchestral soundtrack by composer Jerry Goldsmith, acclaimed for its atmospheric blend of jazz-inflected themes and tense, dramatic scoring that complements the film’s dark, 1950s Los Angeles setting.
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E.
Papillon (1973 film score)
Papillon (1973 film score) is a dramatic and atmospheric film soundtrack composed by Jerry Goldsmith for the 1973 prison escape drama "Papillon."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film score
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soundtrack album ⓘ |
| associatedWithDirector | Wim Wenders ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
southwestern United States
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surface form:
American Southwest
loneliness ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Paris, Texas
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surface form:
Paris, Texas (1984 film)
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| composer | Ry Cooder ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalReception | acclaimed ⓘ |
| genre |
ambient
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blues ⓘ country ⓘ film score ⓘ |
| influenced | later atmospheric film scores ⓘ |
| instrumentation | slide guitar ⓘ |
| knownFor |
evoking desolate landscapes
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haunting slide-guitar sound ⓘ minimalist arrangement ⓘ |
| language | instrumental ⓘ |
| mediaType | audio ⓘ |
| notableTrack |
Paris, Texas
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surface form:
Paris, Texas (main theme)
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| originalReleaseContext |
Paris, Texas
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surface form:
Paris, Texas (1984 film)
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| partOf |
Paris, Texas (film score)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Paris, Texas (soundtrack)
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| performer | Ry Cooder ⓘ |
| producer | Ry Cooder ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Ry Cooder ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| style |
atmospheric
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sparse ⓘ |
| usedFor | underscoring road-movie imagery ⓘ |
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: Paris, Texas (film score) Description of subject: Paris, Texas is a haunting, slide-guitar-driven film score by Ry Cooder, acclaimed for its sparse, atmospheric sound that powerfully underscores Wim Wenders’ 1984 road movie.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Paris, Texas (soundtrack)