The Shining (film score)
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The Shining (film score) is the atmospheric and experimental electronic soundtrack composed by Wendy Carlos for Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror film The Shining.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Shining (film score) canonical | 2 |
| The Shining (1980 film) soundtrack | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8319898 — 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: The Shining (film score) Context triple: [Wendy Carlos, notableWork, The Shining (film score)]
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A.
Poltergeist (1982 film score)
Poltergeist (1982 film score) is a renowned horror film soundtrack composed by Jerry Goldsmith, celebrated for its haunting orchestral themes and innovative use of sound to heighten supernatural terror.
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B.
The Shawshank Redemption (film score)
The Shawshank Redemption (film score) is a critically acclaimed, atmospheric musical soundtrack by composer Thomas Newman that underscores the film’s themes of hope, friendship, and perseverance.
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C.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind film score
The "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" film score is John Williams’s landmark, thematically rich orchestral soundtrack renowned for its innovative use of a five-note motif to communicate with extraterrestrials.
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D.
The Green Mile (film score)
The Green Mile (film score) is a poignant and atmospheric orchestral soundtrack composed by Thomas Newman for the 1999 film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel.
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E.
Varèse Sarabande
Varèse Sarabande is a record label renowned for releasing film and television soundtracks and scores.
- 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: The Shining (film score) Target entity description: The Shining (film score) is the atmospheric and experimental electronic soundtrack composed by Wendy Carlos for Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror film The Shining.
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A.
Poltergeist (1982 film score)
Poltergeist (1982 film score) is a renowned horror film soundtrack composed by Jerry Goldsmith, celebrated for its haunting orchestral themes and innovative use of sound to heighten supernatural terror.
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B.
The Shawshank Redemption (film score)
The Shawshank Redemption (film score) is a critically acclaimed, atmospheric musical soundtrack by composer Thomas Newman that underscores the film’s themes of hope, friendship, and perseverance.
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C.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind film score
The "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" film score is John Williams’s landmark, thematically rich orchestral soundtrack renowned for its innovative use of a five-note motif to communicate with extraterrestrials.
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D.
The Green Mile (film score)
The Green Mile (film score) is a poignant and atmospheric orchestral soundtrack composed by Thomas Newman for the 1999 film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel.
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E.
Varèse Sarabande
Varèse Sarabande is a record label renowned for releasing film and television soundtracks and scores.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film score
ⓘ
soundtrack ⓘ |
| associatedPerformer | Wendy Carlos ⓘ |
| associatedWithDirector | Stanley Kubrick ⓘ |
| associatedWithFranchise | The Shining franchise ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Shining (1980 film) ⓘ |
| composer | Wendy Carlos ⓘ |
| composerNationality | American ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| forWork | The Shining (1980 film) ⓘ |
| genre |
electronic music
ⓘ
experimental music ⓘ film score ⓘ horror film score ⓘ |
| hasType | original score ⓘ |
| language | instrumental ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaboration between Wendy Carlos and Stanley Kubrick
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creating an unsettling atmosphere ⓘ use of electronic timbres in a horror film ⓘ |
| originallyComposedForGenre | horror film ⓘ |
| partlyRecordedIn | late 1970s ⓘ |
| partOf |
The Shining (1980 film) soundtrack
ⓘ
linked to:
The Shining (film score)
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| producer | Wendy Carlos ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 1980s ⓘ |
| style |
atmospheric
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dissonant ⓘ minimalist ⓘ |
| usesInstrument |
electronic organ
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orchestral samples ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
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: The Shining (film score) Description of subject: The Shining (film score) is the atmospheric and experimental electronic soundtrack composed by Wendy Carlos for Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror film The Shining.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Shining (film score)