David Buttolph
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David Buttolph was an American film composer and arranger known for scoring numerous Hollywood movies from the 1930s through the 1950s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Buttolph canonical | 33 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2546805 — 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: David Buttolph Context triple: [Roxie Hart, musicBy, David Buttolph]
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A.
Milton Van Dyke
Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
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B.
Howard Ralston
Howard Ralston was an early 20th-century American film actor known for appearing in silent-era productions, including the 1920 adaptation of "Pollyanna."
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C.
Charles Rettig
Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
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D.
Sidney Badgley
Sidney Badgley was a Canadian-born architect known for designing prominent churches and public buildings across North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Peter Butler
Peter Butler is an English football manager and former player known for coaching various national and club teams, including the Liberia national football team.
- 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: David Buttolph Target entity description: David Buttolph was an American film composer and arranger known for scoring numerous Hollywood movies from the 1930s through the 1950s.
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A.
Milton Van Dyke
Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
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B.
Howard Ralston
Howard Ralston was an early 20th-century American film actor known for appearing in silent-era productions, including the 1920 adaptation of "Pollyanna."
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C.
Charles Rettig
Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
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D.
Sidney Badgley
Sidney Badgley was a Canadian-born architect known for designing prominent churches and public buildings across North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Peter Butler
Peter Butler is an English football manager and former player known for coaching various national and club teams, including the Liberia national football team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
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: David Buttolph Description of subject: David Buttolph was an American film composer and arranger known for scoring numerous Hollywood movies from the 1930s through the 1950s.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.