Howard Blake
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Howard Blake is a British composer best known for his film scores and concert works, including the music for the animated classic "The Snowman."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Howard Blake canonical | 3 |
| Brian May (composer) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3321446 — 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: Howard Blake Context triple: [The Duellists, musicBy, Howard Blake]
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A.
Howard Goodall
Howard Goodall is a British composer and broadcaster best known for his television theme music, choral works, and presentations on music history.
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B.
Harry Bradbeer
Harry Bradbeer is a British television and film director best known for his work on acclaimed series like "Fleabag" and the mystery film "Enola Holmes."
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C.
Hugh Martin
Hugh Martin was an American composer and songwriter best known for his work on classic Hollywood musicals, including writing enduring standards for films like "Meet Me in St. Louis."
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D.
Alan Barlow
Alan Barlow was the husband of British botanist and editor Nora Barlow, granddaughter and biographer of Charles Darwin.
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E.
Andrew Lesnie
Andrew Lesnie was an Australian cinematographer best known for his Oscar-winning work on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
- 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: Howard Blake Target entity description: Howard Blake is a British composer best known for his film scores and concert works, including the music for the animated classic "The Snowman."
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A.
Howard Goodall
Howard Goodall is a British composer and broadcaster best known for his television theme music, choral works, and presentations on music history.
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B.
Harry Bradbeer
Harry Bradbeer is a British television and film director best known for his work on acclaimed series like "Fleabag" and the mystery film "Enola Holmes."
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C.
Hugh Martin
Hugh Martin was an American composer and songwriter best known for his work on classic Hollywood musicals, including writing enduring standards for films like "Meet Me in St. Louis."
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D.
Alan Barlow
Alan Barlow was the husband of British botanist and editor Nora Barlow, granddaughter and biographer of Charles Darwin.
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E.
Andrew Lesnie
Andrew Lesnie was an Australian cinematographer best known for his Oscar-winning work on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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conductor ⓘ film composer ⓘ human ⓘ pianist ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
The Snowman and The Snowdog (score)
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surface form:
The Snowman (1982 animated film)
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Blake ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
concert music
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film music ⓘ music ⓘ |
| genre |
choral music
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classical music ⓘ film score ⓘ orchestral music ⓘ |
| givenName | Howard ⓘ |
| hasRole |
composer of The Snowman score
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composer of Walking in the Air ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.howardblake.com/ ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
chamber music
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choral works ⓘ concert works ⓘ film scores ⓘ orchestral works ⓘ piano music ⓘ |
| isBestKnownFor | composing the music for the animated film The Snowman ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Howard Blake self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Lifecycle
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Piano Concerto ⓘ The Snowman ⓘ The Snowman (concert version) ⓘ The Snowman (film score) ⓘ Violin Concerto ⓘ Walking in the Air ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
conductor ⓘ film composer ⓘ pianist ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
London, England
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surface form:
London
United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Howard Blake Description of subject: Howard Blake is a British composer best known for his film scores and concert works, including the music for the animated classic "The Snowman."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.