Robert Duncan
E221603
Robert Duncan is a television and film composer best known for his atmospheric scores on series such as "Castle" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Duncan canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1749266 — 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: Robert Duncan Context triple: [The Unit, composer, Robert Duncan]
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A.
Simon Donaldson
Simon Donaldson is a British mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in differential geometry and topology, particularly the study of smooth four-dimensional manifolds.
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B.
Alasdair Steedman
Alasdair Steedman was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to high command, including leadership of the RAF’s Fighter Command.
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C.
Alan Stewart
Alan Stewart is a cinematographer known for his work on major feature films, including collaborations with director Guy Ritchie.
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D.
David Farquharson
David Farquharson was an architect known for designing South Hall.
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E.
Phil Woolpert
Phil Woolpert was a prominent American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of San Francisco to multiple national championships in the 1950s.
- 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: Robert Duncan Target entity description: Robert Duncan is a television and film composer best known for his atmospheric scores on series such as "Castle" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
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A.
Simon Donaldson
Simon Donaldson is a British mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in differential geometry and topology, particularly the study of smooth four-dimensional manifolds.
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B.
Alasdair Steedman
Alasdair Steedman was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to high command, including leadership of the RAF’s Fighter Command.
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C.
Alan Stewart
Alan Stewart is a cinematographer known for his work on major feature films, including collaborations with director Guy Ritchie.
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D.
David Farquharson
David Farquharson was an architect known for designing South Hall.
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E.
Phil Woolpert
Phil Woolpert was a prominent American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of San Francisco to multiple national championships in the 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film composer
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person ⓘ television composer ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film industry
ⓘ
television industry ⓘ |
| basedIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
ABC
ⓘ
Joss Whedon ⓘ |
| composedFor |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
ⓘ
Castle ⓘ S.W.A.T. (TV series) ⓘ Terriers ⓘ The Family Man (2000 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Family Man
The Unit ⓘ Timeless ⓘ |
| field |
music for visual media
ⓘ
screen composing ⓘ |
| genre |
film score
ⓘ
television score ⓘ |
| knownFor |
atmospheric musical scores
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television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer ⓘ television series Castle ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableStyle | atmospheric scoring ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
film composer ⓘ television composer ⓘ |
| workFocus |
film music
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television music ⓘ |
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: Robert Duncan Description of subject: Robert Duncan is a television and film composer best known for his atmospheric scores on series such as "Castle" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.