Ed Tomney
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Ed Tomney is a composer and sound designer best known for his unsettling, atmospheric score for Todd Haynes’s 1995 psychological drama "Safe."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ed Tomney canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12869503 — 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: Ed Tomney Context triple: [Safe (1995 film), musicBy, Ed Tomney]
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A.
Bill Tierney
Bill Tierney is a Hall of Fame American lacrosse coach renowned for leading multiple NCAA championship teams, most notably at Princeton and later at the University of Denver.
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B.
Tosh Berman
Tosh Berman is an American writer, poet, and publisher known for his memoirs and works on art, music, and culture, as well as his involvement in the Los Angeles avant-garde scene.
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C.
Ted Briskin
Ted Briskin was an American businessman best known as the first husband of Hollywood actress and singer Betty Hutton.
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D.
Michael Tapper
Michael Tapper is an American drummer best known for his work in indie and experimental rock bands, including his tenure with the group Grizzly Bear.
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E.
Ron Oates
Ron Oates is a musician known for his collaborative work with artists such as shamanic drummer and producer Byron Metcalf.
- 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: Ed Tomney Target entity description: Ed Tomney is a composer and sound designer best known for his unsettling, atmospheric score for Todd Haynes’s 1995 psychological drama "Safe."
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A.
Bill Tierney
Bill Tierney is a Hall of Fame American lacrosse coach renowned for leading multiple NCAA championship teams, most notably at Princeton and later at the University of Denver.
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B.
Tosh Berman
Tosh Berman is an American writer, poet, and publisher known for his memoirs and works on art, music, and culture, as well as his involvement in the Los Angeles avant-garde scene.
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C.
Ted Briskin
Ted Briskin was an American businessman best known as the first husband of Hollywood actress and singer Betty Hutton.
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D.
Michael Tapper
Michael Tapper is an American drummer best known for his work in indie and experimental rock bands, including his tenure with the group Grizzly Bear.
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E.
Ron Oates
Ron Oates is a musician known for his collaborative work with artists such as shamanic drummer and producer Byron Metcalf.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
ⓘ
person ⓘ sound designer ⓘ |
| activeIn | 1990s ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| collaboratedWith | Todd Haynes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fieldOfWork |
film music
ⓘ
film sound design ⓘ |
| genre |
ambient music
ⓘ
film score ⓘ |
| hasRole |
film composer
ⓘ
sound designer for motion pictures ⓘ |
| influencedWork | reception of "Safe" as a psychological drama ⓘ |
| knownFor |
score for Todd Haynes’s film "Safe"
ⓘ
unsettling atmospheric film music ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | psychological horror and drama scoring ⓘ |
| notableWork | Safe (1995 film score) ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
sound designer ⓘ |
| partOf |
American film industry
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linked to:
American cinema
|
| style |
atmospheric soundscapes
ⓘ
minimalist sound design ⓘ |
| workedOn | Safe (1995 film) ⓘ |
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: Ed Tomney Description of subject: Ed Tomney is a composer and sound designer best known for his unsettling, atmospheric score for Todd Haynes’s 1995 psychological drama "Safe."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.