Star Trek: First Contact (1996 film score)
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996 film score) is a cinematic orchestral soundtrack composed by Jerry Goldsmith that blends heroic themes with darker, suspenseful motifs to accompany the eighth Star Trek film’s time-travel and Borg-focused narrative.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Star Trek: First Contact (film score) | 2 |
| Star Trek: First Contact (1996 film score) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1018747 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Star Trek: First Contact (1996 film score) Context triple: [Jerry Goldsmith, notableWork, Star Trek: First Contact (1996 film score)]
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A.
Alien (1979 film score)
Alien (1979 film score) is Jerry Goldsmith’s atmospheric and suspenseful orchestral soundtrack for Ridley Scott’s science-fiction horror film Alien, renowned for its eerie textures and tension-building themes.
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B.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind film score
The "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" film score is John Williams’s landmark, thematically rich orchestral soundtrack renowned for its innovative use of a five-note motif to communicate with extraterrestrials.
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C.
Contact (film score)
Contact (film score) is the orchestral soundtrack composed by Alan Silvestri for the 1997 science fiction film "Contact," noted for its atmospheric and emotionally resonant themes.
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D.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is a 1986 science fiction film in the Star Trek franchise in which the crew of the USS Enterprise travels back in time to 20th-century Earth to save humpback whales and thereby prevent a future catastrophe.
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E.
Flight of the Navigator (film score)
Flight of the Navigator (film score) is an electronic, synth-driven soundtrack composed by Alan Silvestri for the 1986 science-fiction adventure film "Flight of the Navigator."
- 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: Star Trek: First Contact (1996 film score) Target entity description: Star Trek: First Contact (1996 film score) is a cinematic orchestral soundtrack composed by Jerry Goldsmith that blends heroic themes with darker, suspenseful motifs to accompany the eighth Star Trek film’s time-travel and Borg-focused narrative.
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A.
Alien (1979 film score)
Alien (1979 film score) is Jerry Goldsmith’s atmospheric and suspenseful orchestral soundtrack for Ridley Scott’s science-fiction horror film Alien, renowned for its eerie textures and tension-building themes.
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B.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind film score
The "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" film score is John Williams’s landmark, thematically rich orchestral soundtrack renowned for its innovative use of a five-note motif to communicate with extraterrestrials.
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C.
Contact (film score)
Contact (film score) is the orchestral soundtrack composed by Alan Silvestri for the 1997 science fiction film "Contact," noted for its atmospheric and emotionally resonant themes.
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D.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is a 1986 science fiction film in the Star Trek franchise in which the crew of the USS Enterprise travels back in time to 20th-century Earth to save humpback whales and thereby prevent a future catastrophe.
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E.
Flight of the Navigator (film score)
Flight of the Navigator (film score) is an electronic, synth-driven soundtrack composed by Alan Silvestri for the 1986 science-fiction adventure film "Flight of the Navigator."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film score
ⓘ
soundtrack album ⓘ |
| associatedMedium | feature film ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter | Jean-Luc Picard ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre | science fiction film ⓘ |
| associatedWithGroup |
the Borg Collective
ⓘ
linked to:
the Borg
|
| associatedWithSeries | Star Trek: The Next Generation ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Star Trek: First Contact (1996 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Star Trek: First Contact
|
| composer | Jerry Goldsmith ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuresThemeType |
dark motifs
ⓘ
heroic themes ⓘ suspenseful motifs ⓘ |
| filmNumberInSeries | eighth Star Trek film ⓘ |
| franchise | Star Trek ⓘ |
| franchiseInstallmentNumber | 8 ⓘ |
| genre |
film music
ⓘ
orchestral music ⓘ soundtrack ⓘ |
| intendedUse | underscore for motion picture ⓘ |
| language | instrumental ⓘ |
| medium | cinematic soundtrack ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
the Borg
ⓘ
time travel ⓘ |
| notableElement |
blend of lyrical main theme and action material
ⓘ
musical depiction of the Borg ⓘ use of darker harmonic textures ⓘ |
| orchestrationType | full orchestra ⓘ |
| partOf |
Star Trek film series
ⓘ
linked to:
Star Trek feature films
|
| primaryComposerRole | Jerry Goldsmith ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| style | symphonic ⓘ |
| tonalCharacteristics |
dark
ⓘ
heroic ⓘ suspenseful ⓘ |
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: Star Trek: First Contact (1996 film score) Description of subject: Star Trek: First Contact (1996 film score) is a cinematic orchestral soundtrack composed by Jerry Goldsmith that blends heroic themes with darker, suspenseful motifs to accompany the eighth Star Trek film’s time-travel and Borg-focused narrative.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Star Trek: First Contact (1996 film score)
linked to: Star Trek: First Contact (1996 film score)