Howard Goodall
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Howard Goodall is a British composer and broadcaster best known for his television theme music, choral works, and presentations on music history.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Howard Goodall canonical | 27 |
| Howard Goodall’s 20th Century Greats | 1 |
| Howard Goodall’s Story of Music | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1678227 — 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: Howard Goodall Context triple: [The Vicar of Dibley, composer, Howard Goodall]
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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.
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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C.
David Shire
David Shire is an American composer best known for his film and television scores, including acclaimed work in the 1970s.
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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.
Murray Gold
Murray Gold is a British composer best known for his dynamic and emotive scores for the revived Doctor Who television series and its spin-offs.
- 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: Howard Goodall Target entity description: Howard Goodall is a British composer and broadcaster best known for his television theme music, choral works, and presentations on music history.
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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.
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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C.
David Shire
David Shire is an American composer best known for his film and television scores, including acclaimed work in the 1970s.
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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.
Murray Gold
Murray Gold is a British composer best known for his dynamic and emotive scores for the revived Doctor Who television series and its spin-offs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
broadcaster
ⓘ
choral composer ⓘ composer ⓘ human ⓘ television presenter ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
BAFTA
ⓘ
linked to:
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Classic BRIT Award ⓘ
linked to:
Classic Brit Award
Emmy Award ⓘ Royal Television Society Award ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Christ Church, Oxford
ⓘ
Stowe School ⓘ |
| employer |
BBC
ⓘ
Channel 4 ⓘ |
| familyName |
Goodall
ⓘ
linked to:
Jane Goodall
|
| fieldOfWork |
choral composition
ⓘ
music history ⓘ television music ⓘ |
| genre |
choral music
ⓘ
film score ⓘ television music ⓘ |
| givenName | Howard ⓘ |
| hasWrittenFor |
choir
ⓘ
film ⓘ stage ⓘ television ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Howard Goodall ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Eternal Light: A Requiem
ⓘ
Howard Goodall’s 20th Century Greats ⓘ
linked to:
Howard Goodall
Howard Goodall’s Big Bangs ⓘ Howard Goodall’s Great Dates ⓘ Howard Goodall’s Story of Music ⓘ
linked to:
Howard Goodall
In Memoriam ⓘ Love Divine ⓘ Music documentaries on Channel 4 ⓘ Theme music for Blackadder ⓘ Theme music for Mr. Bean ⓘ Theme music for Red Dwarf ⓘ Theme music for The Vicar of Dibley ⓘ |
| occupation |
broadcaster
ⓘ
composer ⓘ conductor ⓘ music historian ⓘ television presenter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Howard Goodall Description of subject: Howard Goodall is a British composer and broadcaster best known for his television theme music, choral works, and presentations on music history.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.