John Altman
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John Altman is a British composer, arranger, and conductor known for his work on numerous film and television scores, as well as collaborations with prominent popular music artists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Altman canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9759835 — 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: John Altman Context triple: [Funny Bones, musicBy, John Altman]
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A.
James Altman
James Altman is the son of American lawyer and video game executive Robert A. Altman.
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B.
John Alderman
John Alderman was a Native American allied with the English colonists who became historically known for killing the Wampanoag leader Metacomet (King Philip) during King Philip’s War.
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C.
Roy P. Drachman
Roy P. Drachman was a prominent Tucson real estate developer and civic leader whose philanthropy significantly supported the University of Arizona and local community projects.
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D.
Daniel Ullman
Daniel Ullman was an American screenwriter known for his work on mid-20th-century genre films, particularly Westerns and thrillers.
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E.
Richard Lifton
Richard Lifton is an American geneticist and physician-scientist renowned for his pioneering work on the genetic basis of hypertension and other cardiovascular and kidney diseases.
- 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: John Altman Target entity description: John Altman is a British composer, arranger, and conductor known for his work on numerous film and television scores, as well as collaborations with prominent popular music artists.
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A.
James Altman
James Altman is the son of American lawyer and video game executive Robert A. Altman.
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B.
John Alderman
John Alderman was a Native American allied with the English colonists who became historically known for killing the Wampanoag leader Metacomet (King Philip) during King Philip’s War.
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C.
Roy P. Drachman
Roy P. Drachman was a prominent Tucson real estate developer and civic leader whose philanthropy significantly supported the University of Arizona and local community projects.
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D.
Daniel Ullman
Daniel Ullman was an American screenwriter known for his work on mid-20th-century genre films, particularly Westerns and thrillers.
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E.
Richard Lifton
Richard Lifton is an American geneticist and physician-scientist renowned for his pioneering work on the genetic basis of hypertension and other cardiovascular and kidney diseases.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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composer ⓘ conductor ⓘ film score composer ⓘ human ⓘ music arranger ⓘ television composer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film music
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music ⓘ popular music ⓘ television music ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
arranging music
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collaborations with popular music artists ⓘ composing film scores ⓘ composing television scores ⓘ conducting music ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
film scores
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television scores ⓘ |
| occupation |
arranger
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composer ⓘ conductor ⓘ film score composer ⓘ television composer ⓘ |
| 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: John Altman Description of subject: John Altman is a British composer, arranger, and conductor known for his work on numerous film and television scores, as well as collaborations with prominent popular music artists.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.