Alan Parker
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Alan Parker is a British composer and guitarist known for his prolific session work and film and television scores.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alan Parker canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8064039 — 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: Alan Parker Context triple: [Jaws 3-D, musicBy, Alan Parker]
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A.
Alan Parker
Alan Parker was a renowned British film director, producer, and screenwriter known for acclaimed works such as "Midnight Express," "Fame," and "Mississippi Burning."
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B.
Roland Joffé
Roland Joffé is a British film director and producer best known for his Oscar-nominated work on politically charged dramas such as "The Killing Fields" and "The Mission."
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C.
Bruce Beresford
Bruce Beresford is an acclaimed Australian film director known for his influential role in the Australian New Wave movement and for internationally recognized films such as "Breaker Morant" and "Driving Miss Daisy."
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D.
Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Roeg was a British film director and cinematographer known for his visually innovative, non-linear storytelling in films such as "Don't Look Now" and "The Man Who Fell to Earth."
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E.
Fred Schepisi
Fred Schepisi is an acclaimed Australian film director and screenwriter known for works such as "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith," "A Cry in the Dark," and "Roxanne."
- 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: Alan Parker Target entity description: Alan Parker is a British composer and guitarist known for his prolific session work and film and television scores.
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A.
Alan Parker
Alan Parker was a renowned British film director, producer, and screenwriter known for acclaimed works such as "Midnight Express," "Fame," and "Mississippi Burning."
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B.
Roland Joffé
Roland Joffé is a British film director and producer best known for his Oscar-nominated work on politically charged dramas such as "The Killing Fields" and "The Mission."
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C.
Bruce Beresford
Bruce Beresford is an acclaimed Australian film director known for his influential role in the Australian New Wave movement and for internationally recognized films such as "Breaker Morant" and "Driving Miss Daisy."
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D.
Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Roeg was a British film director and cinematographer known for his visually innovative, non-linear storytelling in films such as "Don't Look Now" and "The Man Who Fell to Earth."
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E.
Fred Schepisi
Fred Schepisi is an acclaimed Australian film director and screenwriter known for works such as "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith," "A Cry in the Dark," and "Roxanne."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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guitarist ⓘ musician ⓘ person ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
| activity |
composing for film
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composing for television ⓘ recording sessions ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| field | music ⓘ |
| genre |
film music
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television music ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| instrument | guitar ⓘ |
| knownFor |
film scores
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prolific session work ⓘ television scores ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableRole | session guitarist ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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guitarist ⓘ session musician ⓘ |
| partOf |
British music industry
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linked to:
UK Music
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| workLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Alan Parker Description of subject: Alan Parker is a British composer and guitarist known for his prolific session work and film and television scores.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.