Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer was an American film and television composer and orchestrator known for his work on numerous Hollywood scores throughout the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Herbert Spencer canonical | 2 |
| Herbert W. Spencer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2008773 — 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: Herbert Spencer Context triple: [Kramer vs. Kramer, musicBy, Herbert Spencer]
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A.
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer was a 19th-century English philosopher and sociologist best known for applying evolutionary theory to social and ethical issues and popularizing the concept of "survival of the fittest."
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B.
Lester Frank Ward
Lester Frank Ward was an American sociologist and botanist often regarded as a founding figure of American sociology, known for his progressive ideas about social planning and the role of education and government in promoting social welfare.
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C.
William Graham Sumner
William Graham Sumner was an influential American sociologist and classical liberal thinker known for his defense of laissez-faire economics and his association with Social Darwinist ideas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Henry Sidgwick
Henry Sidgwick was a 19th-century English utilitarian philosopher and economist best known for his work "The Methods of Ethics" and his influential contributions to moral philosophy and welfare economics.
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E.
T. H. Green
T. H. Green was a 19th-century British idealist philosopher whose ethical and political thought laid key foundations for modern liberalism’s emphasis on positive freedom and social welfare.
- 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: Herbert Spencer Target entity description: Herbert Spencer was an American film and television composer and orchestrator known for his work on numerous Hollywood scores throughout the mid-20th century.
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A.
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer was a 19th-century English philosopher and sociologist best known for applying evolutionary theory to social and ethical issues and popularizing the concept of "survival of the fittest."
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B.
Lester Frank Ward
Lester Frank Ward was an American sociologist and botanist often regarded as a founding figure of American sociology, known for his progressive ideas about social planning and the role of education and government in promoting social welfare.
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C.
William Graham Sumner
William Graham Sumner was an influential American sociologist and classical liberal thinker known for his defense of laissez-faire economics and his association with Social Darwinist ideas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Henry Sidgwick
Henry Sidgwick was a 19th-century English utilitarian philosopher and economist best known for his work "The Methods of Ethics" and his influential contributions to moral philosophy and welfare economics.
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E.
T. H. Green
T. H. Green was a 19th-century British idealist philosopher whose ethical and political thought laid key foundations for modern liberalism’s emphasis on positive freedom and social welfare.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American composer
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film composer ⓘ human ⓘ orchestrator ⓘ television composer ⓘ |
| activeIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| areaOfActivity |
American cinema
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surface form:
American film industry
American television industry ⓘ |
| basedIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film music
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television music ⓘ |
| genre |
film score
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television score ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Herbert Spencer ⓘ |
| notableFor | Hollywood film scores ⓘ |
| notableRole |
composer for American films
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orchestrator for Hollywood scores ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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film composer ⓘ orchestrator ⓘ television composer ⓘ |
| typeOfArtist | screen composer ⓘ |
| workPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
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: Herbert Spencer Description of subject: Herbert Spencer was an American film and television composer and orchestrator known for his work on numerous Hollywood scores throughout the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Herbert W. Spencer
subject surface form:
The Fishin' Hole