David Broekman
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David Broekman was an American composer and conductor best known for his work on film scores during the early sound era of Hollywood cinema.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Broekman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11394134 — 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 Broekman Context triple: [Once in a Lifetime (1932 film), musicBy, David Broekman]
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Bart van Merriënboer
Bart van Merriënboer is a machine learning researcher known for his contributions to deep learning and neural sequence models, including work on RNN-based encoder–decoder architectures for machine translation.
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B.
Dennis van Aarssen
Dennis van Aarssen is a Dutch jazz and pop singer who gained national fame after winning the talent show The Voice of Holland.
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C.
Jeroen Brouwers
Jeroen Brouwers was a prominent Dutch writer and essayist known for his stylistically rich novels and critical essays, often exploring memory, war, and the legacy of colonialism.
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D.
Dirk Brouwer
Dirk Brouwer was a prominent Dutch-American astronomer and celestial mechanician known for his influential work on the orbits of planets and asteroids and for leading Yale University's astronomy program.
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E.
Barend Biesheuvel
Barend Biesheuvel was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1971 to 1973.
- 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 Broekman Target entity description: David Broekman was an American composer and conductor best known for his work on film scores during the early sound era of Hollywood cinema.
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A.
Bart van Merriënboer
Bart van Merriënboer is a machine learning researcher known for his contributions to deep learning and neural sequence models, including work on RNN-based encoder–decoder architectures for machine translation.
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B.
Dennis van Aarssen
Dennis van Aarssen is a Dutch jazz and pop singer who gained national fame after winning the talent show The Voice of Holland.
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C.
Jeroen Brouwers
Jeroen Brouwers was a prominent Dutch writer and essayist known for his stylistically rich novels and critical essays, often exploring memory, war, and the legacy of colonialism.
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D.
Dirk Brouwer
Dirk Brouwer was a prominent Dutch-American astronomer and celestial mechanician known for his influential work on the orbits of planets and asteroids and for leading Yale University's astronomy program.
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E.
Barend Biesheuvel
Barend Biesheuvel was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1971 to 1973.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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conductor ⓘ film score composer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Hollywood film studios ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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music ⓘ |
| genre | film music ⓘ |
| industry |
film industry
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music industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | early sound era of cinema ⓘ |
| notableFor |
film scores
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work during the early sound era of Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| notableRole | composer of early sound film scores ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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conductor ⓘ film score composer ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood
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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 Broekman Description of subject: David Broekman was an American composer and conductor best known for his work on film scores during the early sound era of Hollywood cinema.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.