Hugo Friedhofer
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Hugo Friedhofer was an American film composer and orchestrator best known for his Academy Award–winning score for "The Best Years of Our Lives" and his extensive work during Hollywood's Golden Age.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hugo Friedhofer canonical | 20 |
| Hugo Wilhelm Friedhofer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1201478 — 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: Hugo Friedhofer Context triple: [Joan of Arc (1948 film), musicBy, Hugo Friedhofer]
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A.
Victor Young
Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, and conductor best known for his prolific film scores and popular songs during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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B.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian-born composer renowned for his pioneering, richly orchestrated film scores in Hollywood as well as his influential early 20th-century operas and concert works.
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C.
Franz Waxman
Franz Waxman was a German-American composer renowned for his influential and Oscar-winning film scores during Hollywood's Golden Age.
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D.
Herbert Stothart
Herbert Stothart was an American composer and arranger best known for his Academy Award–winning film scores during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including his work at MGM on classics like The Wizard of Oz.
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E.
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.
- 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: Hugo Friedhofer Target entity description: Hugo Friedhofer was an American film composer and orchestrator best known for his Academy Award–winning score for "The Best Years of Our Lives" and his extensive work during Hollywood's Golden Age.
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A.
Victor Young
Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, and conductor best known for his prolific film scores and popular songs during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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B.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian-born composer renowned for his pioneering, richly orchestrated film scores in Hollywood as well as his influential early 20th-century operas and concert works.
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C.
Franz Waxman
Franz Waxman was a German-American composer renowned for his influential and Oscar-winning film scores during Hollywood's Golden Age.
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D.
Herbert Stothart
Herbert Stothart was an American composer and arranger best known for his Academy Award–winning film scores during Hollywood’s Golden Age, including his work at MGM on classics like The Wizard of Oz.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Hugo Friedhofer Description of subject: Hugo Friedhofer was an American film composer and orchestrator best known for his Academy Award–winning score for "The Best Years of Our Lives" and his extensive work during Hollywood's Golden Age.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Body and Soul
linked to: Hugo Friedhofer
subject linked to:
Henry Brougham is an Episcopal bishop