Harry Stafford
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Harry Stafford was a composer known for creating the musical score for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1929 film "Blackmail," one of the earliest British sound thrillers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harry Stafford canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3884367 — 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: Harry Stafford Context triple: [Blackmail (1929 film), musicBy, Harry Stafford]
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A.
Jonathan Stafford
Jonathan Stafford is an American ballet master and former principal dancer who serves as the artistic director of New York City Ballet.
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B.
James Stafford
James Stafford was a military commander involved in the Siege of Wexford during the Irish Confederate Wars.
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C.
Charles Siddall
Charles Siddall was a family member of the Pre-Raphaelite-associated artist and poet Elizabeth Siddal, belonging to the same Victorian-era Siddall/Siddall family circle.
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D.
Anthony Peckham
Anthony Peckham is a South African–born screenwriter best known for scripting films such as "Invictus" and "Sherlock Holmes."
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E.
Frank Greystock
Frank Greystock is a central figure in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novel "The Eustace Diamonds," portrayed as an ambitious yet morally conflicted politician entangled in complex romantic and social obligations.
- 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: Harry Stafford Target entity description: Harry Stafford was a composer known for creating the musical score for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1929 film "Blackmail," one of the earliest British sound thrillers.
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A.
Jonathan Stafford
Jonathan Stafford is an American ballet master and former principal dancer who serves as the artistic director of New York City Ballet.
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B.
James Stafford
James Stafford was a military commander involved in the Siege of Wexford during the Irish Confederate Wars.
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C.
Charles Siddall
Charles Siddall was a family member of the Pre-Raphaelite-associated artist and poet Elizabeth Siddal, belonging to the same Victorian-era Siddall/Siddall family circle.
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D.
Anthony Peckham
Anthony Peckham is a South African–born screenwriter best known for scripting films such as "Invictus" and "Sherlock Holmes."
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E.
Frank Greystock
Frank Greystock is a central figure in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser novel "The Eustace Diamonds," portrayed as an ambitious yet morally conflicted politician entangled in complex romantic and social obligations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | composer ⓘ |
| activeIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| associatedWith | British thriller films ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Alfred Hitchcock ⓘ |
| composedFor | early British sound cinema ⓘ |
| era | 20th-century music ⓘ |
| genre | film score ⓘ |
| knownFor | musical score for the film "Blackmail" ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notability | one of the early British sound film composers ⓘ |
| notableWork | score for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1929 film "Blackmail" ⓘ |
| occupation | composer ⓘ |
| workedOn | film "Blackmail" ⓘ |
| workType | film music ⓘ |
| wroteMusicFor |
film "Blackmail"
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surface form:
"Blackmail" (1929)
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How these facts were elicited
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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: Harry Stafford Description of subject: Harry Stafford was a composer known for creating the musical score for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1929 film "Blackmail," one of the earliest British sound thrillers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.