Michael Minard
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Michael Minard is a composer best known for scoring the 1987 horror film "A Return to Salem's Lot."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Minard canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8574298 — 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: Michael Minard Context triple: [A Return to Salem's Lot, musicBy, Michael Minard]
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A.
Thomas Crawford
Thomas Crawford was a 19th-century American neoclassical sculptor best known for major public works in Washington, D.C., including the Statue of Freedom atop the U.S. Capitol dome.
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B.
Charles Bridgeman
Charles Bridgeman was an influential early 18th-century English landscape designer who helped pioneer the transition from formal Baroque gardens to the more naturalistic English landscape style.
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C.
Charles Goodsell
Charles Goodsell was a notable figure associated with Carleton College whose contributions to the institution led to the campus observatory being named in his honor.
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D.
Victor Brecheret
Victor Brecheret was a prominent Brazilian modernist sculptor known for his monumental public works and his role in shaping 20th-century Brazilian art.
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E.
Frédéric Thiébaud
Frédéric Thiébaud is a Swiss businessman best known as the husband of Canadian country-pop singer Shania Twain.
- 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: Michael Minard Target entity description: Michael Minard is a composer best known for scoring the 1987 horror film "A Return to Salem's Lot."
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A.
Thomas Crawford
Thomas Crawford was a 19th-century American neoclassical sculptor best known for major public works in Washington, D.C., including the Statue of Freedom atop the U.S. Capitol dome.
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B.
Charles Bridgeman
Charles Bridgeman was an influential early 18th-century English landscape designer who helped pioneer the transition from formal Baroque gardens to the more naturalistic English landscape style.
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C.
Charles Goodsell
Charles Goodsell was a notable figure associated with Carleton College whose contributions to the institution led to the campus observatory being named in his honor.
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D.
Victor Brecheret
Victor Brecheret was a prominent Brazilian modernist sculptor known for his monumental public works and his role in shaping 20th-century Brazilian art.
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E.
Frédéric Thiébaud
Frédéric Thiébaud is a Swiss businessman best known as the husband of Canadian country-pop singer Shania Twain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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film ⓘ person ⓘ |
| composedScoreFor | A Return to Salem's Lot ⓘ |
| composer | Michael Minard ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| genre | horror film ⓘ |
| knownFor | film score composition ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | A Return to Salem's Lot ⓘ |
| occupation | composer ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1987 ⓘ |
| workedOn | A Return to Salem's Lot ⓘ |
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: Michael Minard Description of subject: Michael Minard is a composer best known for scoring the 1987 horror film "A Return to Salem's Lot."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Michael Minard