Michael Small
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Michael Small was an American film composer best known for his suspenseful and atmospheric scores for 1970s and 1980s thrillers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Small canonical | 17 |
| Michael Ira Small | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1679041 — 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: Michael Small Context triple: [Marathon Man (1976 film), musicBy, Michael Small]
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A.
Mike Little
Mike Little is a British software developer best known as the co‑founder and original co-author of the WordPress content management system.
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B.
Keith Scholey
Keith Scholey is a British wildlife filmmaker and producer known for creating and overseeing major nature documentaries, including the acclaimed series Our Planet.
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C.
Andrew Dunn
Andrew Dunn is a British cinematographer known for his work on numerous high-profile films and television productions.
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D.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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E.
Michael Sexton
Michael Sexton is an American businessman best known for co-founding and running the controversial real estate training venture Trump University alongside Donald Trump.
- 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: Michael Small Target entity description: Michael Small was an American film composer best known for his suspenseful and atmospheric scores for 1970s and 1980s thrillers.
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A.
Mike Little
Mike Little is a British software developer best known as the co‑founder and original co-author of the WordPress content management system.
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B.
Keith Scholey
Keith Scholey is a British wildlife filmmaker and producer known for creating and overseeing major nature documentaries, including the acclaimed series Our Planet.
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C.
Andrew Dunn
Andrew Dunn is a British cinematographer known for his work on numerous high-profile films and television productions.
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D.
Jonathan Hunt
Jonathan Hunt was a prominent early 19th-century American politician and lawyer from Vermont who served multiple terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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E.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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film composer ⓘ human ⓘ musician ⓘ |
| activeInDecade |
1970s
ⓘ
1980s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film music
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music for thrillers ⓘ |
| genre |
film score
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thriller film score ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
atmospheric film scores
ⓘ
suspenseful film scores ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Klute
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Marathon Man ⓘ
linked to:
Marathon Man (1976 film)
Night Moves ⓘ The Driver ⓘ The Parallax View ⓘ
linked to:
The Parallax View (1974 film)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Star Chamber ⓘ The Stepford Wives ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
film composer ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Michael Small Description of subject: Michael Small was an American film composer best known for his suspenseful and atmospheric scores for 1970s and 1980s thrillers.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Parallax View (1974 film)
subject linked to:
The Stepford Wives
linked to: Michael Small
subject linked to:
Black Widow
subject linked to:
The Postman Always Rings Twice