David Shire
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David Shire is an American composer best known for his film and television scores, including acclaimed work in the 1970s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Shire canonical | 69 |
| David Shire composed the music | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1438015 — 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: David Shire Context triple: [All the President’s Men, musicBy, David Shire]
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A.
Richard Shepherd
Richard Shepherd was an American film producer best known for his work on classic movies such as "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
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B.
Robert Mann
Robert Mann was a 19th-century American man best known as the son of influential education reformer Horace Mann.
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C.
Bill Eyre
Bill Eyre was an early British aviation figure best known as a co-founder of the Hawker Aircraft company, a major producer of military aircraft in the 20th century.
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D.
Andrew Lesnie
Andrew Lesnie was an Australian cinematographer best known for his Oscar-winning work on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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E.
Dario Marianelli
Dario Marianelli is an Italian film composer known for his evocative scores for movies such as Atonement, Pride & Prejudice, and Darkest Hour.
- 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: David Shire Target entity description: David Shire is an American composer best known for his film and television scores, including acclaimed work in the 1970s.
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A.
Richard Shepherd
Richard Shepherd was an American film producer best known for his work on classic movies such as "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
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B.
Robert Mann
Robert Mann was a 19th-century American man best known as the son of influential education reformer Horace Mann.
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C.
Bill Eyre
Bill Eyre was an early British aviation figure best known as a co-founder of the Hawker Aircraft company, a major producer of military aircraft in the 20th century.
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D.
Andrew Lesnie
Andrew Lesnie was an Australian cinematographer best known for his Oscar-winning work on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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E.
Dario Marianelli
Dario Marianelli is an Italian film composer known for his evocative scores for movies such as Atonement, Pride & Prejudice, and Darkest Hour.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: David Shire Description of subject: David Shire is an American composer best known for his film and television scores, including acclaimed work in the 1970s.
Referenced by (70)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "All the President’s Men"
subject linked to:
Alice (1970 Broadway musical, score co-written)
subject linked to:
Alice (1970 Broadway musical, score co-written)
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Baby (1983 Broadway musical, score)
subject linked to:
Baby (1983 Broadway musical, score)
linked to: David Shire
subject linked to:
Closer Than Ever (1989 musical revue, music)
subject linked to:
Starting Here, Starting Now (1976 musical revue, music)
subject linked to:
Starting Here, Starting Now (1976 musical revue, music)
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“With You I’m Born Again” (song, composer)
subject linked to:
“With You I’m Born Again” (song, composer)
subject linked to:
“It Goes Like It Goes” (song from Norma Rae, composer)