Dave Grusin
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Dave Grusin is an American composer, arranger, and jazz pianist best known for his prolific film and television scores and for co-founding GRP Records.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dave Grusin canonical | 24 |
| David Grusin | 1 |
| Robert David Grusin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1408741 — 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: Dave Grusin Context triple: [Good Times, composer, Dave Grusin]
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A.
Lalo Schifrin
Lalo Schifrin is an Argentine-American composer, pianist, and conductor best known for his iconic film and television scores, including the theme for "Mission: Impossible."
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B.
Albert Weinert
Albert Weinert was a German-American sculptor and monument designer known for his public memorials in the United States.
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C.
Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Hamlisch was an American composer and conductor renowned for his award-winning work in film, theater, and popular music, including multiple Oscars, Grammys, and a Pulitzer Prize.
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D.
Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor, and arranger best known for his memorable film and television scores, including iconic themes such as "Moon River" and "The Pink Panther."
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E.
Chick Corea
Chick Corea was an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his pioneering work in jazz fusion and his virtuosic, innovative playing style.
- 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: Dave Grusin Target entity description: Dave Grusin is an American composer, arranger, and jazz pianist best known for his prolific film and television scores and for co-founding GRP Records.
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A.
Lalo Schifrin
Lalo Schifrin is an Argentine-American composer, pianist, and conductor best known for his iconic film and television scores, including the theme for "Mission: Impossible."
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B.
Albert Weinert
Albert Weinert was a German-American sculptor and monument designer known for his public memorials in the United States.
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C.
Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Hamlisch was an American composer and conductor renowned for his award-winning work in film, theater, and popular music, including multiple Oscars, Grammys, and a Pulitzer Prize.
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D.
Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor, and arranger best known for his memorable film and television scores, including iconic themes such as "Moon River" and "The Pink Panther."
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E.
Chick Corea
Chick Corea was an influential American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader known for his pioneering work in jazz fusion and his virtuosic, innovative playing style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Dave Grusin Description of subject: Dave Grusin is an American composer, arranger, and jazz pianist best known for his prolific film and television scores and for co-founding GRP Records.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
David Grusin
this entity surface form:
Robert David Grusin