Aliens (film score)
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Aliens (film score) is James Horner’s intense, suspense-driven orchestral soundtrack for James Cameron’s 1986 science fiction film "Aliens," renowned for its blend of atmospheric tension and explosive action cues.
All labels observed (1)
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| Aliens (film score) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1048086 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aliens (film score) Context triple: [James Horner, notableWork, Aliens (film score)]
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Alien (1979 film score)
Alien (1979 film score) is Jerry Goldsmith’s atmospheric and suspenseful orchestral soundtrack for Ridley Scott’s science-fiction horror film Alien, renowned for its eerie textures and tension-building themes.
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Blade Runner (film score)
Blade Runner (film score) is Vangelis’s influential, atmospheric electronic soundtrack for the 1982 science fiction film Blade Runner, renowned for its moody synth textures and enduring impact on film music.
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The Abyss (film score)
The Abyss (film score) is a science-fiction film soundtrack composed by Alan Silvestri, noted for its atmospheric orchestration and blend of suspenseful and ethereal themes.
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D.
Alexander (film score)
Alexander (film score) is an orchestral and electronic film soundtrack composed by Vangelis for Oliver Stone’s 2004 historical epic about Alexander the Great.
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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.
- 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: Aliens (film score) Target entity description: Aliens (film score) is James Horner’s intense, suspense-driven orchestral soundtrack for James Cameron’s 1986 science fiction film "Aliens," renowned for its blend of atmospheric tension and explosive action cues.
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A.
Alien (1979 film score)
Alien (1979 film score) is Jerry Goldsmith’s atmospheric and suspenseful orchestral soundtrack for Ridley Scott’s science-fiction horror film Alien, renowned for its eerie textures and tension-building themes.
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B.
Blade Runner (film score)
Blade Runner (film score) is Vangelis’s influential, atmospheric electronic soundtrack for the 1982 science fiction film Blade Runner, renowned for its moody synth textures and enduring impact on film music.
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C.
The Abyss (film score)
The Abyss (film score) is a science-fiction film soundtrack composed by Alan Silvestri, noted for its atmospheric orchestration and blend of suspenseful and ethereal themes.
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D.
Alexander (film score)
Alexander (film score) is an orchestral and electronic film soundtrack composed by Vangelis for Oliver Stone’s 2004 historical epic about Alexander the Great.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film score
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soundtrack album ⓘ |
| associatedAwardNomination |
Academy Award for Best Original Score
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Saturn Award for Best Music ⓘ |
| basedOnFranchise |
Alien franchise
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surface form:
Alien (franchise)
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| composer | James Horner ⓘ |
| containsTrack |
Atmosphere Station
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Bad Dreams ⓘ Bishop’s Countdown ⓘ Combat Drop ⓘ Facehuggers ⓘ Futile Escape ⓘ Going After Newt ⓘ Hypersleep ⓘ LV-426 ⓘ Main Title ⓘ Med Lab ⓘ Newt ⓘ Newt Is Taken ⓘ Perimeter Action ⓘ Queen to Bishop ⓘ Resolution and Hyperspace ⓘ Ripley’s Rescue ⓘ Sub-Level 3 ⓘ The Complex ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| directorOfRelatedWork | James Cameron ⓘ |
| forWork |
Aliens
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surface form:
Aliens (film)
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| genre |
action film score
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film score ⓘ orchestral music ⓘ science fiction film score ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation | full symphony orchestra ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
late-romantic orchestral writing
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modernist dissonance ⓘ rhythmic ostinati ⓘ |
| label |
Intrada Records
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RCA Records ⓘ Varèse Sarabande ⓘ |
| language | instrumental ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blend of atmospheric tension and explosive action cues
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influence on later action film scoring ⓘ intense suspense-driven writing ⓘ use of dissonant orchestral textures ⓘ use of militaristic rhythmic figures ⓘ |
| orchestrationBy | James Horner ⓘ |
| originalReleaseYear | 1986 ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Alien franchise
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surface form:
Alien film series
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| producer | James Horner ⓘ |
| recordedForStudio | 20th Century Fox ⓘ |
| usedIn | film trailers for other action movies ⓘ |
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: Aliens (film score) Description of subject: Aliens (film score) is James Horner’s intense, suspense-driven orchestral soundtrack for James Cameron’s 1986 science fiction film "Aliens," renowned for its blend of atmospheric tension and explosive action cues.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
James Horner