Any Other Name
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"Any Other Name" is a minimalist, melancholic instrumental piece by Thomas Newman, widely recognized as one of the most iconic tracks from the American Beauty film score.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Any Other Name canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11465992 — 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: Any Other Name Context triple: [American Beauty (film score), hasTrack, Any Other Name]
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A.
No Other
No Other is a 1974 solo album by American singer-songwriter Gene Clark, acclaimed for its ambitious production, genre-blending sound, and later cult status despite an initially poor commercial reception.
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B.
One More Name
"One More Name" is a country song featured on Dwight Yoakam's 1988 album *Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room*.
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C.
No Use for a Name
No Use for a Name was an influential American punk rock band known for its melodic skate punk sound and significant role in the 1990s punk revival.
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D.
The Other Side
The Other Side is an acoustic EP by American rock band Godsmack that features stripped-down versions of their songs and previously unreleased material.
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E.
The Other Side
"The Other Side" is a poem by Seamus Heaney that reflects his characteristic exploration of memory, landscape, and the tensions of Irish identity.
- 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: Any Other Name Target entity description: "Any Other Name" is a minimalist, melancholic instrumental piece by Thomas Newman, widely recognized as one of the most iconic tracks from the American Beauty film score.
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A.
No Other
No Other is a 1974 solo album by American singer-songwriter Gene Clark, acclaimed for its ambitious production, genre-blending sound, and later cult status despite an initially poor commercial reception.
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B.
One More Name
"One More Name" is a country song featured on Dwight Yoakam's 1988 album *Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room*.
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C.
No Use for a Name
No Use for a Name was an influential American punk rock band known for its melodic skate punk sound and significant role in the 1990s punk revival.
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D.
The Other Side
The Other Side is an acoustic EP by American rock band Godsmack that features stripped-down versions of their songs and previously unreleased material.
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E.
The Other Side
The Other Side is a song featured on the album "Pump" by the American rock band Aerosmith.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film score track
ⓘ
instrumental piece ⓘ musical composition ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter | Lester Burnham ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
existential reflection
ⓘ
suburban ennui ⓘ |
| composer | Thomas Newman ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| featuredIn | American Beauty ⓘ |
| genre |
ambient
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film score ⓘ minimalist music ⓘ |
| hasAwardAssociation | American Beauty score Academy Award for Best Original Score ⓘ |
| hasKeyCharacteristic |
prominent piano arpeggios
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sparse harmonic progression ⓘ subtle string textures ⓘ |
| includedOnSoundtrack |
American Beauty (soundtrack album)
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linked to:
American Beauty (film score)
|
| instrumentation |
piano
ⓘ
strings ⓘ synthesizer ⓘ |
| language | instrumental ⓘ |
| mood |
introspective
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melancholic ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with the film American Beauty
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use in melancholic and reflective scenes ⓘ |
| partOf |
American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score
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linked to:
American Beauty (film score)
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| releasePeriod | 1999 ⓘ |
| style | minimalist, repetitive motifs ⓘ |
| tempo | slow ⓘ |
| usedAs | background music in film trailers and videos ⓘ |
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: Any Other Name Description of subject: "Any Other Name" is a minimalist, melancholic instrumental piece by Thomas Newman, widely recognized as one of the most iconic tracks from the American Beauty film score.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.