Basil Poledouris
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Basil Poledouris was an American composer best known for his powerful, symphonic film scores for movies such as Conan the Barbarian, RoboCop, and The Hunt for Red October.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Basil Poledouris canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3066851 — 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: Basil Poledouris Context triple: [Les Misérables (1998 film), composer, Basil Poledouris]
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Mychael Danna
Mychael Danna is a Canadian film composer renowned for his evocative, often world-music-infused scores, including his Academy Award–winning work on "Life of Pi."
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B.
Harry Gregson-Williams
Harry Gregson-Williams is a British composer best known for his film and video game scores, including work on the "Shrek" series, "The Chronicles of Narnia," and the "Metal Gear Solid" franchise.
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C.
John Powell
John Powell is a British-born, Academy Award–nominated film composer renowned for his dynamic scores for animated and action films such as the "How to Train Your Dragon" series and the "Bourne" franchise.
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Jerry Goldsmith
Jerry Goldsmith was an acclaimed American film and television composer known for his innovative and influential scores for works such as "Planet of the Apes," "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," and "The Omen."
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E.
James Newton Howard
James Newton Howard is an acclaimed American composer best known for his prolific film and television scores across a wide range of genres.
- 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: Basil Poledouris Target entity description: Basil Poledouris was an American composer best known for his powerful, symphonic film scores for movies such as Conan the Barbarian, RoboCop, and The Hunt for Red October.
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A.
Mychael Danna
Mychael Danna is a Canadian film composer renowned for his evocative, often world-music-infused scores, including his Academy Award–winning work on "Life of Pi."
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B.
Harry Gregson-Williams
Harry Gregson-Williams is a British composer best known for his film and video game scores, including work on the "Shrek" series, "The Chronicles of Narnia," and the "Metal Gear Solid" franchise.
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C.
John Powell
John Powell is a British-born, Academy Award–nominated film composer renowned for his dynamic scores for animated and action films such as the "How to Train Your Dragon" series and the "Bourne" franchise.
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D.
Jerry Goldsmith
Jerry Goldsmith was an acclaimed American film and television composer known for his innovative and influential scores for works such as "Planet of the Apes," "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," and "The Omen."
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E.
James Newton Howard
James Newton Howard is an acclaimed American composer best known for his prolific film and television scores across a wide range of genres.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Basil Poledouris Description of subject: Basil Poledouris was an American composer best known for his powerful, symphonic film scores for movies such as Conan the Barbarian, RoboCop, and The Hunt for Red October.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Conan the Barbarian (1982 film)
subject surface form:
RoboCop