Frank De Vol
E211462
Frank De Vol was an American arranger, composer, and conductor best known for his film and television scores and theme music during the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frank De Vol canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1839896 — 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: Frank De Vol Context triple: [Kiss Me Deadly, musicBy, Frank De Vol]
-
A.
Hans Bonte
Hans Bonte is a Belgian politician known for serving as the mayor of Vilvoorde and as a member of the federal parliament.
-
B.
Thom de Graaf
Thom de Graaf is a Dutch politician and former Deputy Prime Minister known for his long-standing role in the social-liberal Democrats 66 (D66) party and his leadership in various high-level governmental and administrative positions in the Netherlands.
-
C.
Albert Dekker
Albert Dekker was an American character actor known for his prolific film, stage, and television career from the 1930s to the 1960s, often playing complex or villainous roles.
-
D.
John de Mol
John de Mol is a Dutch media tycoon and television producer best known for creating globally successful reality and talent show formats such as Big Brother and The Voice.
-
E.
Marvin DeWinter
Marvin DeWinter was an architect known for designing the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- 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: Frank De Vol Target entity description: Frank De Vol was an American arranger, composer, and conductor best known for his film and television scores and theme music during the mid-20th century.
-
A.
Hans Bonte
Hans Bonte is a Belgian politician known for serving as the mayor of Vilvoorde and as a member of the federal parliament.
-
B.
Thom de Graaf
Thom de Graaf is a Dutch politician and former Deputy Prime Minister known for his long-standing role in the social-liberal Democrats 66 (D66) party and his leadership in various high-level governmental and administrative positions in the Netherlands.
-
C.
Albert Dekker
Albert Dekker was an American character actor known for his prolific film, stage, and television career from the 1930s to the 1960s, often playing complex or villainous roles.
-
D.
John de Mol
John de Mol is a Dutch media tycoon and television producer best known for creating globally successful reality and talent show formats such as Big Brother and The Voice.
-
E.
Marvin DeWinter
Marvin DeWinter was an architect known for designing the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
arranger
ⓘ
composer ⓘ conductor ⓘ film score composer ⓘ human ⓘ television composer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1990s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1930s ⓘ |
| birthName | Frank Denny De Vol ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1911-09-20 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1999-10-27 ⓘ |
| employer |
ABC Television
ⓘ
linked to:
ABC television network
Columbia Records ⓘ |
| familyName | De Vol ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film music
ⓘ
television music ⓘ |
| genre |
easy listening
ⓘ
traditional pop ⓘ |
| givenName | Frank ⓘ |
| instrument |
piano
ⓘ
viola ⓘ |
| name | Frank De Vol ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Original Score ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Happy Kyne on Fernwood 2 Night
ⓘ
linked to:
Fernwood 2 Night
|
| notableWork |
Cat Ballou (1965 film score)
ⓘ
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967 film score) ⓘ My Three Sons theme music ⓘ
linked to:
My Three Sons
The Brady Bunch theme music ⓘ The Parent Trap (1961 film score) ⓘ
linked to:
The Parent Trap (1961 film songs)
|
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
arranger ⓘ composer ⓘ conductor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Moundsville, West Virginia, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Moundsville, West Virginia
|
| placeOfDeath | Lafayette, California, United States ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Grayce De Vol
ⓘ
Helen O'Connell ⓘ
linked to:
Helen O’Connell
|
| workedOn |
Cat Ballou (1965 film)
ⓘ
Family Affair (television series) ⓘ
linked to:
Family Affair
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
My Three Sons (television series) ⓘ
linked to:
My Three Sons
Pillow Talk (1959 film) ⓘ
linked to:
Pillow Talk
The Brady Bunch (television series) ⓘ
linked to:
The Brady Bunch
The Dirty Dozen (1967 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Dirty Dozen
The Parent Trap (1961 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Parent Trap
|
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: Frank De Vol Description of subject: Frank De Vol was an American arranger, composer, and conductor best known for his film and television scores and theme music during the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.