David Snell
E512219
David Snell was an American film composer and music director active during Hollywood’s Golden Age, known for scoring numerous MGM productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Snell canonical | 37 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5321547 — 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: David Snell Context triple: [The Women (1939 film), musicBy, David Snell]
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A.
David Rees Snell
David Rees Snell is an American actor best known for his role as Detective Ronnie Gardocki on the crime drama television series "The Shield."
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B.
Martin Lorentzon
Martin Lorentzon is a Swedish entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the music streaming service Spotify.
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C.
Adam Dirks
Adam Dirks is an American Christian youth minister and surfer best known as the husband of professional surfer and shark-attack survivor Bethany Hamilton.
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D.
Jabez Olssen
Jabez Olssen is a New Zealand film editor best known for his work on major Peter Jackson projects, including the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film series.
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E.
D.J. Grothe
D.J. Grothe is an American skeptic, speaker, and former president of the James Randi Educational Foundation known for promoting critical thinking and secular humanism.
- 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: David Snell Target entity description: David Snell was an American film composer and music director active during Hollywood’s Golden Age, known for scoring numerous MGM productions.
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A.
David Rees Snell
David Rees Snell is an American actor best known for his role as Detective Ronnie Gardocki on the crime drama television series "The Shield."
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B.
Martin Lorentzon
Martin Lorentzon is a Swedish entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the music streaming service Spotify.
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C.
Adam Dirks
Adam Dirks is an American Christian youth minister and surfer best known as the husband of professional surfer and shark-attack survivor Bethany Hamilton.
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D.
Jabez Olssen
Jabez Olssen is a New Zealand film editor best known for his work on major Peter Jackson projects, including the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film series.
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E.
D.J. Grothe
D.J. Grothe is an American skeptic, speaker, and former president of the James Randi Educational Foundation known for promoting critical thinking and secular humanism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film score composer
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film composer ⓘ music director ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creativeWorkType | film score ⓘ |
| employer | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film music
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music direction ⓘ |
| genre | film score ⓘ |
| hasRole |
composer
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conductor ⓘ orchestrator ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | Hollywood Golden Age ⓘ |
| name | David Snell ⓘ |
| notableFor | scoring numerous MGM productions ⓘ |
| notablePeriod |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ |
| notableWork | film scores for MGM productions ⓘ |
| occupation |
film composer
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music director ⓘ |
| partOf |
American cinema
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Hollywood studio system ⓘ
linked to:
Hollywood studios
|
| workLocation |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: David Snell Description of subject: David Snell was an American film composer and music director active during Hollywood’s Golden Age, known for scoring numerous MGM productions.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bad Little Angel (1939 film)
subject linked to:
These Glamour Girls (1939 film)
subject linked to:
Love Crazy (1941 film)
subject linked to:
The Hidden Eye (1945 film)