Max Steiner
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Max Steiner was an Austrian-American composer and conductor renowned as one of the founding fathers of film music, scoring classics such as Gone with the Wind and Casablanca.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Max Steiner canonical | 62 |
| Max Steiner filmography | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T97609 — 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: Max Steiner Context triple: [King Kong (1933 film), musicBy, Max Steiner]
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A.
Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman was a prominent American film composer and conductor, renowned for his influential work in Hollywood’s Golden Age and for winning multiple Academy Awards for his scores.
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B.
Alexandre Desplat
Alexandre Desplat is an acclaimed French film composer known for his elegant, emotionally nuanced scores for movies such as The King’s Speech, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and The Shape of Water.
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C.
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein was a renowned American composer, conductor, and pianist best known for works like "West Side Story" and for his long tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic.
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D.
John Barry
John Barry was an Irish-born American naval officer renowned as one of the founding captains of the United States Navy during the American Revolutionary era.
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E.
Vangelis
Vangelis was a Greek composer and pioneer of electronic and ambient music, renowned for his evocative synthesizer-based film scores such as those for "Chariots of Fire" and "Blade Runner."
- 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: Max Steiner Target entity description: Max Steiner was an Austrian-American composer and conductor renowned as one of the founding fathers of film music, scoring classics such as Gone with the Wind and Casablanca.
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A.
Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman was a prominent American film composer and conductor, renowned for his influential work in Hollywood’s Golden Age and for winning multiple Academy Awards for his scores.
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B.
Alexandre Desplat
Alexandre Desplat is an acclaimed French film composer known for his elegant, emotionally nuanced scores for movies such as The King’s Speech, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and The Shape of Water.
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C.
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein was a renowned American composer, conductor, and pianist best known for works like "West Side Story" and for his long tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic.
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D.
John Barry
John Barry was an Irish-born American naval officer renowned as one of the founding captains of the United States Navy during the American Revolutionary era.
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E.
Vangelis
Vangelis was a Greek composer and pioneer of electronic and ambient music, renowned for his evocative synthesizer-based film scores such as those for "Chariots of Fire" and "Blade Runner."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Austrian-American
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conductor ⓘ film composer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Original Score
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Academy Award for Best Original Score ⓘ
surface form:
Academy Award for Best Scoring
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| countryOfCitizenship |
Austria
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1888-05-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1971-12-28 ⓘ |
| employer |
RKO Radio Pictures
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Warner Bros. Entertainment ⓘ
surface form:
Warner Bros.
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| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| familyName | Steiner ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | film score composition ⓘ |
| fullName | Maximilian Raoul Steiner ⓘ |
| genre |
classical music
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film score ⓘ |
| givenName | Maximilian ⓘ |
| influenced | development of the classical Hollywood film score ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Gustav Mahler
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Richard Wagner ⓘ late-Romantic classical music ⓘ |
| instrument | piano ⓘ |
| movement |
Hollywood Golden Age
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surface form:
Golden Age of Hollywood
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| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Original Score ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | Considered one of the founding fathers of film music ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic | pioneering use of leitmotifs in film scores ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Score for "A Star Is Born" (1937)
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Casablanca ⓘ
surface form:
Score for "Casablanca"
Score for "Dark Victory" ⓘ Score for "Gone with the Wind" ⓘ film King Kong (1933) ⓘ
surface form:
Score for "King Kong" (1933)
Score for "Mildred Pierce" ⓘ Score for "Now, Voyager" ⓘ Score for "Sergeant York" ⓘ Score for "Since You Went Away" ⓘ Score for "The Big Sleep" ⓘ Score for "The Caine Mutiny" ⓘ Score for "The Searchers" ⓘ The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ⓘ
surface form:
Score for "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
White Heat ⓘ
surface form:
Score for "White Heat"
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| occupation |
composer
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conductor ⓘ orchestrator ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Vienna
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surface form:
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
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| placeOfDeath |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| residence |
Los Angeles
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Max Steiner Description of subject: Max Steiner was an Austrian-American composer and conductor renowned as one of the founding fathers of film music, scoring classics such as Gone with the Wind and Casablanca.
Referenced by (63)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
King Kong (1933 film)
subject surface form:
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subject surface form:
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subject surface form:
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subject surface form:
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this entity surface form:
Max Steiner filmography
subject surface form:
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subject surface form:
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