Robert Emmett Dolan
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Robert Emmett Dolan was an American composer, conductor, and music director best known for scoring numerous Hollywood films and Broadway productions in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Emmett Dolan canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2882475 — 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: Robert Emmett Dolan Context triple: [The Major and the Minor, musicBy, Robert Emmett Dolan]
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A.
James Leo Herlihy
James Leo Herlihy was an American novelist, playwright, and actor best known for writing the novel "Midnight Cowboy," which was adapted into the Academy Award–winning film.
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B.
John O’Keefe
John O’Keefe is a British-American neuroscientist renowned for discovering place cells in the hippocampus, a breakthrough that helped reveal the brain’s internal GPS system.
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C.
John McGlynn
John McGlynn is a Scottish football manager best known for his successful spells in charge of Raith Rovers.
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D.
John DeLuca
John DeLuca is an American film producer and longtime collaborator of director Rob Marshall, known for working on major movie musicals and adaptations.
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E.
Dan Ryan
Dan Ryan is a major freeway in Chicago, Illinois, that serves as a key segment of Interstate 90/94 and a primary route for commuters traveling to and from the city’s South Side.
- 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: Robert Emmett Dolan Target entity description: Robert Emmett Dolan was an American composer, conductor, and music director best known for scoring numerous Hollywood films and Broadway productions in the mid-20th century.
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A.
James Leo Herlihy
James Leo Herlihy was an American novelist, playwright, and actor best known for writing the novel "Midnight Cowboy," which was adapted into the Academy Award–winning film.
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B.
John O’Keefe
John O’Keefe is a British-American neuroscientist renowned for discovering place cells in the hippocampus, a breakthrough that helped reveal the brain’s internal GPS system.
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C.
John McGlynn
John McGlynn is a Scottish football manager best known for his successful spells in charge of Raith Rovers.
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D.
John DeLuca
John DeLuca is an American film producer and longtime collaborator of director Rob Marshall, known for working on major movie musicals and adaptations.
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E.
Dan Ryan
Dan Ryan is a major freeway in Chicago, Illinois, that serves as a key segment of Interstate 90/94 and a primary route for commuters traveling to and from the city’s South Side.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway composer
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composer ⓘ conductor ⓘ film score composer ⓘ human ⓘ music director ⓘ |
| activeIn | 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Dolan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Broadway theater
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surface form:
Broadway musicals
film music ⓘ theatre music ⓘ |
| genre |
film score
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musical theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| middleName | Emmett ⓘ |
| name | Robert Emmett Dolan self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
scoring Broadway productions
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scoring numerous Hollywood films ⓘ |
| notableWork |
film scores for Hollywood productions
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scores for Broadway productions ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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conductor ⓘ film score composer ⓘ music director ⓘ record producer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Broadway
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Hollywood ⓘ |
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: Robert Emmett Dolan Description of subject: Robert Emmett Dolan was an American composer, conductor, and music director best known for scoring numerous Hollywood films and Broadway productions in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lady in the Dark (1944 film)