William Lava
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William Lava was an American composer best known for scoring numerous Warner Bros. cartoons, including many Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Lava canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2532562 — 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: William Lava Context triple: [The Bugs Bunny Show, featuresMusicBy, William Lava]
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A.
Walter Darre
Walter Darré was a leading Nazi official and ideologue of "blood and soil" agrarianism who served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and was later tried as a war criminal after World War II.
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B.
Warren Wells
Warren Wells was an American professional football wide receiver best known for his standout seasons with the Oakland Raiders in the late 1960s.
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C.
Victor Maynard
Victor Maynard is a fastidious, aging British hitman whose orderly professional life is upended when he becomes entangled with an unpredictable young woman in the dark comedy film "Wild Target."
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D.
John Vance
John Vance is a British legal figure who succeeded Henry Wade as Director of Public Prosecutions in England and Wales.
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E.
Frederic McLaughlin
Frederic McLaughlin was an American businessman and sports executive best known for establishing and owning the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks in the early 20th century.
- 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: William Lava Target entity description: William Lava was an American composer best known for scoring numerous Warner Bros. cartoons, including many Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts.
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A.
Walter Darre
Walter Darré was a leading Nazi official and ideologue of "blood and soil" agrarianism who served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and was later tried as a war criminal after World War II.
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B.
Warren Wells
Warren Wells was an American professional football wide receiver best known for his standout seasons with the Oakland Raiders in the late 1960s.
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C.
Victor Maynard
Victor Maynard is a fastidious, aging British hitman whose orderly professional life is upended when he becomes entangled with an unpredictable young woman in the dark comedy film "Wild Target."
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D.
John Vance
John Vance is a British legal figure who succeeded Henry Wade as Director of Public Prosecutions in England and Wales.
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E.
Frederic McLaughlin
Frederic McLaughlin was an American businessman and sports executive best known for establishing and owning the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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film score composer ⓘ human ⓘ television composer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Warner Bros. Entertainment
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surface form:
Warner Bros.
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| familyName | Lava ⓘ |
| genre |
cartoon music
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film score ⓘ orchestral music ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| knownFor |
scoring Looney Tunes shorts
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scoring Merrie Melodies shorts ⓘ scoring Warner Bros. cartoons ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | William Lava self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Looney Tunes
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Merrie Melodies ⓘ Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies ⓘ
surface form:
Warner Bros. cartoons
|
| occupation |
composer
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film score composer ⓘ music arranger ⓘ television composer ⓘ |
| workedIn |
animation industry
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film industry ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Looney Tunes
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surface form:
Looney Tunes theatrical shorts
Merrie Melodies ⓘ
surface form:
Merrie Melodies theatrical shorts
|
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: William Lava Description of subject: William Lava was an American composer best known for scoring numerous Warner Bros. cartoons, including many Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.