Newman family of film composers
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The Newman family of film composers is a prominent Hollywood dynasty known for multiple generations of influential film and television score composers, including Alfred, Lionel, Randy, Thomas, David, and Joey Newman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Newman family of film composers canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3679066 — 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: Newman family of film composers Context triple: [Joey Newman, isPartOf, Newman family of film composers]
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A.
Maurice Jarre
Maurice Jarre was a French composer renowned for his sweeping, Oscar-winning film scores, particularly for epic movies such as "Lawrence of Arabia," "Doctor Zhivago," and "A Passage to India."
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B.
Sherman Brothers
The Sherman Brothers were a prolific American songwriting duo, Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman, best known for creating iconic songs for numerous Disney films and theme parks.
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C.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian-born composer renowned for his pioneering, richly orchestrated film scores in Hollywood as well as his influential early 20th-century operas and concert works.
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D.
Richard Addinsell
Richard Addinsell was a British composer best known for his film scores and the popular orchestral piece "Warsaw Concerto."
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E.
Max Steiner
Max Steiner was an Austrian-American composer and conductor renowned as one of the founding fathers of film music, scoring classics such as Gone with the Wind and Casablanca.
- 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: Newman family of film composers Target entity description: The Newman family of film composers is a prominent Hollywood dynasty known for multiple generations of influential film and television score composers, including Alfred, Lionel, Randy, Thomas, David, and Joey Newman.
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A.
Maurice Jarre
Maurice Jarre was a French composer renowned for his sweeping, Oscar-winning film scores, particularly for epic movies such as "Lawrence of Arabia," "Doctor Zhivago," and "A Passage to India."
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B.
Sherman Brothers
The Sherman Brothers were a prolific American songwriting duo, Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman, best known for creating iconic songs for numerous Disney films and theme parks.
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C.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian-born composer renowned for his pioneering, richly orchestrated film scores in Hollywood as well as his influential early 20th-century operas and concert works.
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D.
Richard Addinsell
Richard Addinsell was a British composer best known for his film scores and the popular orchestral piece "Warsaw Concerto."
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E.
Max Steiner
Max Steiner was an Austrian-American composer and conductor renowned as one of the founding fathers of film music, scoring classics such as Gone with the Wind and Casablanca.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hollywood family
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family ⓘ musical dynasty ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ |
| basedIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| field |
film music
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television music ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember |
Alfred Newman
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David Newman ⓘ Joey Newman ⓘ Lionel Newman ⓘ Randy Newman ⓘ Thomas Newman ⓘ |
| memberOf | Newman family of film composers ⓘ |
| notableFor |
film score composition
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television score composition ⓘ |
| occupation |
conductor
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film composer ⓘ music director ⓘ pianist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ television composer ⓘ |
| relative |
Alfred Newman
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David Newman ⓘ Joey Newman ⓘ Lionel Newman ⓘ Randy Newman ⓘ Thomas Newman ⓘ |
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: Newman family of film composers Description of subject: The Newman family of film composers is a prominent Hollywood dynasty known for multiple generations of influential film and television score composers, including Alfred, Lionel, Randy, Thomas, David, and Joey Newman.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Newman family of film composers