Bernard Herrmann
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Bernard Herrmann was an influential American composer best known for his innovative and dramatic film scores, including his landmark collaborations with directors Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bernard Herrmann canonical | 57 |
| Herrmann | 3 |
| Bernard Herrmann (sound consultant) | 1 |
| Bernard Herrmann composed, orchestrated, and conducted the score | 1 |
| Bernard Herrmann filmography | 1 |
| Max Herman "Bernard" Herrmann | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T440428 — 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: Bernard Herrmann Context triple: [Citizen Kane, musicBy, Bernard Herrmann]
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A.
Max Steiner
Max Steiner was an Austrian-American composer and conductor renowned as one of the founding fathers of film music, scoring classics such as Gone with the Wind and Casablanca.
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B.
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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C.
Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman was a prominent American film composer and conductor, renowned for his influential work in Hollywood’s Golden Age and for winning multiple Academy Awards for his scores.
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D.
John Williams
John Williams is an acclaimed American composer and conductor best known for his iconic film scores for franchises such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, and many others.
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E.
John Debney
John Debney is an American film composer known for scoring a wide range of movies and television shows, including major studio productions and acclaimed dramas.
- 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: Bernard Herrmann Target entity description: Bernard Herrmann was an influential American composer best known for his innovative and dramatic film scores, including his landmark collaborations with directors Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock.
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A.
Max Steiner
Max Steiner was an Austrian-American composer and conductor renowned as one of the founding fathers of film music, scoring classics such as Gone with the Wind and Casablanca.
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B.
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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C.
Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman was a prominent American film composer and conductor, renowned for his influential work in Hollywood’s Golden Age and for winning multiple Academy Awards for his scores.
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D.
John Williams
John Williams is an acclaimed American composer and conductor best known for his iconic film scores for franchises such as Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, and many others.
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E.
John Debney
John Debney is an American film composer known for scoring a wide range of movies and television shows, including major studio productions and acclaimed dramas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (69)
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: Bernard Herrmann Description of subject: Bernard Herrmann was an influential American composer best known for his innovative and dramatic film scores, including his landmark collaborations with directors Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock.
Referenced by (64)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Max Herman "Bernard" Herrmann
this entity surface form:
Herrmann
this entity surface form:
Bernard Herrmann (sound consultant)
subject surface form:
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)
subject surface form:
Vertigo
this entity surface form:
Herrmann
this entity surface form:
Herrmann
subject surface form:
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
this entity surface form:
Bernard Herrmann composed, orchestrated, and conducted the score