Tom Hiel
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Tom Hiel is an American film and television composer known for scoring a variety of genre projects, including cult and horror films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Hiel canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4663459 — 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: Tom Hiel Context triple: [Sharktopus, composer, Tom Hiel]
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A.
John Hyams
John Hyams is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter known for his work in action and horror, including the series "Black Summer" and entries in the "Universal Soldier" franchise.
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B.
Brian Van Holt
Brian Van Holt is an American actor known for his roles in films like "Black Hawk Down" and "Den of Thieves" as well as the TV series "Cougar Town."
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C.
Michael-Leon Wooley
Michael-Leon Wooley is an American actor and voice actor best known for his rich baritone performances in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in animated features and Broadway productions.
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D.
Tim Van Patten
Tim Van Patten is an American television director, producer, and former actor known for his work on acclaimed series such as The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, and Game of Thrones.
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E.
Bruce Weitz
Bruce Weitz is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as the eccentric detective Mick Belker on the television series "Hill Street Blues."
- 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: Tom Hiel Target entity description: Tom Hiel is an American film and television composer known for scoring a variety of genre projects, including cult and horror films.
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A.
John Hyams
John Hyams is an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter known for his work in action and horror, including the series "Black Summer" and entries in the "Universal Soldier" franchise.
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B.
Brian Van Holt
Brian Van Holt is an American actor known for his roles in films like "Black Hawk Down" and "Den of Thieves" as well as the TV series "Cougar Town."
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C.
Michael-Leon Wooley
Michael-Leon Wooley is an American actor and voice actor best known for his rich baritone performances in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in animated features and Broadway productions.
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D.
Tim Van Patten
Tim Van Patten is an American television director, producer, and former actor known for his work on acclaimed series such as The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, and Game of Thrones.
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E.
Bruce Weitz
Bruce Weitz is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as the eccentric detective Mick Belker on the television series "Hill Street Blues."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American composer
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film composer ⓘ person ⓘ television composer ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film music
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television music ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization |
cult film scores
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horror film scores ⓘ |
| knownFor |
scoring cult films
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scoring horror films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWorkType |
film score
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television score ⓘ |
| occupation |
film composer
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television composer ⓘ |
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: Tom Hiel Description of subject: Tom Hiel is an American film and television composer known for scoring a variety of genre projects, including cult and horror films.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.