Sean Altman
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Sean Altman is an American singer-songwriter and founding member of the a cappella group Rockapella, known for his work on the Carmen Sandiego franchise.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sean Altman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11773720 — 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: Sean Altman Context triple: [Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego?, composer, Sean Altman]
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A.
Jeffrey Weiner
Jeffrey Weiner is a film producer best known for his work on major action-thriller franchises, including serving as a producer on "The Bourne Legacy."
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B.
Scott D. Altman
Scott D. Altman is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions, including leading the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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C.
Adam Thiel
Adam Thiel is an American public safety leader and emergency management expert known for serving as a fire commissioner and overseeing disaster preparedness and response efforts.
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D.
Alex Karp
Alex Karp is an American billionaire entrepreneur and co-founder CEO of Palantir Technologies, known for its data analytics software used by governments and large institutions.
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E.
John Case
John Case is a relatively common personal name that may refer to multiple individuals across different fields, such as literature, academia, or public life.
- 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: Sean Altman Target entity description: Sean Altman is an American singer-songwriter and founding member of the a cappella group Rockapella, known for his work on the Carmen Sandiego franchise.
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A.
Jeffrey Weiner
Jeffrey Weiner is a film producer best known for his work on major action-thriller franchises, including serving as a producer on "The Bourne Legacy."
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B.
Scott D. Altman
Scott D. Altman is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions, including leading the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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C.
Adam Thiel
Adam Thiel is an American public safety leader and emergency management expert known for serving as a fire commissioner and overseeing disaster preparedness and response efforts.
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D.
Alex Karp
Alex Karp is an American billionaire entrepreneur and co-founder CEO of Palantir Technologies, known for its data analytics software used by governments and large institutions.
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E.
John Case
John Case is a relatively common personal name that may refer to multiple individuals across different fields, such as literature, academia, or public life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
founding member
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human ⓘ musician ⓘ recording artist ⓘ singer-songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
music industry
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television entertainment ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
a cappella music
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live performance ⓘ television theme music ⓘ |
| genre |
a cappella
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comedy music ⓘ pop music ⓘ rock music ⓘ |
| hasCollaboratedWith |
PBS
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Rockapella members ⓘ |
| hasCreativeRole |
composer
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lyricist ⓘ vocal arranger ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
a cappella pop
ⓘ
vocal harmony ⓘ |
| hasPart |
solo career
ⓘ
work in television music ⓘ |
| instrument | voice ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding Rockapella
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performing the theme for Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? ⓘ pioneering contemporary a cappella pop ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Rockapella ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Carmen Sandiego franchise work
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linked to:
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
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| notableWork |
Carmen Sandiego franchise music
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Rockapella ⓘ Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (theme song) ⓘ |
| occupation |
musician
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performer ⓘ record producer ⓘ singer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| partOf | Carmen Sandiego franchise history ⓘ |
| positionHeld | founding member of Rockapella ⓘ |
| voiceType | tenor ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York City
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Sean Altman Description of subject: Sean Altman is an American singer-songwriter and founding member of the a cappella group Rockapella, known for his work on the Carmen Sandiego franchise.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.