Joseph Carl Breil
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Joseph Carl Breil was an American composer and conductor best known as a pioneering film score composer during the silent film era.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joseph Carl Breil canonical | 9 |
| Joseph Carl Breil as composer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1140661 — 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: Joseph Carl Breil Context triple: [The Birth of a Nation, musicBy, Joseph Carl Breil]
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A.
Gustav Riebmann
Gustav Riebmann is a fictional character from the American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," known for being a powerful and manipulative antagonist.
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B.
Eduard Meyer
Eduard Meyer was a prominent German historian and classical scholar known for his influential works on ancient history and historiography.
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C.
Emile Meyer
Emile Meyer was an American character actor known for his tough, authoritative roles in mid-20th-century films and television.
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D.
Frantz Reichel
Frantz Reichel was a prominent French sports administrator, journalist, and former athlete who played a key role in organizing and promoting modern sports in France and internationally.
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E.
Arthur Nebe
Arthur Nebe was a high-ranking Nazi SS officer and head of the Criminal Police (Kripo) who later commanded Einsatzgruppe B, participating in mass murders on the Eastern Front before becoming involved in the 20 July plot against Hitler and being executed.
- 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: Joseph Carl Breil Target entity description: Joseph Carl Breil was an American composer and conductor best known as a pioneering film score composer during the silent film era.
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A.
Gustav Riebmann
Gustav Riebmann is a fictional character from the American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," known for being a powerful and manipulative antagonist.
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B.
Eduard Meyer
Eduard Meyer was a prominent German historian and classical scholar known for his influential works on ancient history and historiography.
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C.
Emile Meyer
Emile Meyer was an American character actor known for his tough, authoritative roles in mid-20th-century films and television.
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D.
Frantz Reichel
Frantz Reichel was a prominent French sports administrator, journalist, and former athlete who played a key role in organizing and promoting modern sports in France and internationally.
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E.
Arthur Nebe
Arthur Nebe was a high-ranking Nazi SS officer and head of the Criminal Police (Kripo) who later commanded Einsatzgruppe B, participating in mass murders on the Eastern Front before becoming involved in the 20 July plot against Hitler and being executed.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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conductor ⓘ film score composer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American silent cinema
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Hollywood ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1870-06-29 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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linked to:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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| composedFor |
concert performance
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silent films ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1926-01-23 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| employer | film industry ⓘ |
| era |
Romantic
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early modern ⓘ |
| familyName | Breil ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film music
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opera composition ⓘ songwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
film score
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opera ⓘ popular song ⓘ |
| givenName | Joseph ⓘ |
| hasWorkType |
opera
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orchestral score ⓘ vocal music ⓘ |
| influencedDomain | development of narrative film scoring ⓘ |
| knownAs | pioneer of original film scores ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | silent film era ⓘ |
| name | Joseph Carl Breil ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | pioneering film scores during the silent film era ⓘ |
| notableWork |
opera The Legend
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score for Intolerance ⓘ score for The Birth of a Nation ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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film score composer ⓘ orchestral conductor ⓘ |
| 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: Joseph Carl Breil Description of subject: Joseph Carl Breil was an American composer and conductor best known as a pioneering film score composer during the silent film era.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
opera The Legend
subject linked to:
opera The Legend
subject linked to:
opera The Legend
subject linked to:
opera The Legend
linked to: Joseph Carl Breil