Russ Landau

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American musician composer film score composer human record producer television composer

Russ Landau is an American composer best known for creating memorable television themes and scores, including music for reality series such as Survivor.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Russ Landau canonical	9
Ben Goldwasser	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8268725 — 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: Russ Landau
Context triple: [Ancient Voices, composer, Russ Landau]

A. Hal Lieberman
Hal Lieberman is an American film producer known for working on major Hollywood movies, including the science fiction action sequel "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines."
B. Ben Goldwasser
Ben Goldwasser is an American musician and songwriter best known as the co-founder and keyboardist of the psychedelic pop band MGMT.
C. Todd Lieberman
Todd Lieberman is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "The Fighter" and other major Hollywood productions.
D. Jonathan Glickman
Jonathan Glickman is an American film producer known for overseeing a range of major Hollywood projects, including big-budget comedies and franchise films.
E. David Kershenbaum
David Kershenbaum is an American record producer known for his work with prominent artists across folk, rock, and pop music since the 1970s.
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: Russ Landau
Target entity description: Russ Landau is an American composer best known for creating memorable television themes and scores, including music for reality series such as Survivor.

A. Hal Lieberman
Hal Lieberman is an American film producer known for working on major Hollywood movies, including the science fiction action sequel "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines."
B. Ben Goldwasser
Ben Goldwasser is an American musician and songwriter best known as the co-founder and keyboardist of the psychedelic pop band MGMT.
C. Todd Lieberman
Todd Lieberman is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "The Fighter" and other major Hollywood productions.
D. Jonathan Glickman
Jonathan Glickman is an American film producer known for overseeing a range of major Hollywood projects, including big-budget comedies and franchise films.
E. David Kershenbaum
David Kershenbaum is an American record producer known for his work with prominent artists across folk, rock, and pop music since the 1970s.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (39)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American musician ⓘ composer ⓘ film score composer ⓘ human ⓘ record producer ⓘ television composer ⓘ
awardReceived	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music ⓘ linked to: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music
basedIn	Los Angeles ⓘ
composer	Russ Landau ⓘ Russ Landau ⓘ Russ Landau ⓘ Russ Landau ⓘ Russ Landau ⓘ Russ Landau ⓘ Russ Landau ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
familyName	Landau ⓘ
fieldOfWork	film music ⓘ television music ⓘ
genre	film score ⓘ television score ⓘ theme music ⓘ
givenName	Russ ⓘ
knownFor	composing music for reality television series ⓘ composing television themes ⓘ composing the Survivor theme ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
name	Russ Landau ⓘ
notableWork	Andromeda (TV series) music ⓘ linked to: Andromeda (TV series) Dog Eat Dog (U.S. game show) theme ⓘ Fear Factor theme music ⓘ Pirate Master theme music ⓘ SeaQuest DSV score ⓘ linked to: SeaQuest DSV Survivor (U.S. TV series) score ⓘ linked to: Survivor Survivor (U.S. TV series) theme music ⓘ The Mole (U.S. TV series) music ⓘ
occupation	composer ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ancient Voices → composer → Russ Landau ⓘ

Kids → composer → Ben Goldwasser ⓘ

linked to: Russ Landau

Russ Landau → name → Russ Landau ⓘ

Survivor (U.S. TV series) theme music → composer → Russ Landau ⓘ