Wendy Carlos
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Wendy Carlos is an American composer and electronic music pioneer best known for her groundbreaking Moog synthesizer work and influential film scores such as "A Clockwork Orange" and "Tron."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wendy Carlos canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1725457 — 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: Wendy Carlos Context triple: [The Shining (1980 film), musicBy, Wendy Carlos]
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A.
Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel Jarre is a pioneering French electronic music composer and producer known for his influential albums and spectacular large-scale outdoor concerts.
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B.
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."
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C.
Brad Fiedel
Brad Fiedel is an American composer best known for his synthesizer-driven film scores, including the iconic music for "The Terminator" series.
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D.
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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E.
Dave Grusin
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.
- 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: Wendy Carlos Target entity description: Wendy Carlos is an American composer and electronic music pioneer best known for her groundbreaking Moog synthesizer work and influential film scores such as "A Clockwork Orange" and "Tron."
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A.
Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel Jarre is a pioneering French electronic music composer and producer known for his influential albums and spectacular large-scale outdoor concerts.
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B.
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."
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C.
Brad Fiedel
Brad Fiedel is an American composer best known for his synthesizer-driven film scores, including the iconic music for "The Terminator" series.
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D.
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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E.
Dave Grusin
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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electronic musician ⓘ film score composer ⓘ human ⓘ pioneer of electronic music ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| birthName | Walter Carlos ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Carlos ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
electronic music
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film music ⓘ synthesizer music ⓘ |
| genre |
ambient music
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classical music ⓘ electronic music ⓘ film score ⓘ |
| givenName | Wendy ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | http://www.wendycarlos.com/ ⓘ |
| influenced |
electronic music composers
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synthesizer musicians ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Johann Sebastian Bach ⓘ |
| instrument |
Moog synthesizer
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synthesizer ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | electronic music revolution of the late 1960s ⓘ |
| name | Wendy Carlos self-link ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
early adopter of multitrack recording techniques for synthesizer
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helped establish electronic realizations of classical music ⓘ pioneered use of synthesizers in film scores ⓘ popularized the Moog synthesizer in mainstream music ⓘ |
| notableFor |
groundbreaking Moog synthesizer recordings
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innovative film scoring techniques ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Clockwork Orange (film score)
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Beauty in the Beast ⓘ Digital Moonscapes ⓘ Secrets of Synthesis ⓘ Sonic Seasonings ⓘ Switched-On Bach ⓘ Switched-On Brandenburgs ⓘ The Shining (film score) ⓘ The Well-Tempered Synthesizer ⓘ Tron (film score) ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ sound engineer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Wendy Carlos Description of subject: Wendy Carlos is an American composer and electronic music pioneer best known for her groundbreaking Moog synthesizer work and influential film scores such as "A Clockwork Orange" and "Tron."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
"Here’s Johnny!" scene