Gordon Jacob
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Gordon Jacob was a 20th-century English composer and orchestrator known for his wind band works, film scores, and ceremonial music for major state occasions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gordon Jacob canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T290024 — 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: Gordon Jacob Context triple: [coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, musicBy, Gordon Jacob]
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A.
Herbert Howells
Herbert Howells was a 20th-century English composer and organist renowned for his choral and sacred music, particularly within the Anglican tradition.
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B.
William Walton
William Walton was a prominent 20th-century English composer known for his orchestral works, film scores, and ceremonial music.
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C.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams was a prominent 20th-century English composer known for his symphonies, choral works, and influential contributions to British ceremonial and folk-inspired music.
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D.
John Harbison
John Harbison is an American composer renowned for his orchestral, chamber, choral, and operatic works, and for his influential role in contemporary classical music.
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E.
David Rose
David Rose was a British-born American composer, arranger, and orchestra leader best known for his work in radio, television, and film music.
- 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: Gordon Jacob Target entity description: Gordon Jacob was a 20th-century English composer and orchestrator known for his wind band works, film scores, and ceremonial music for major state occasions.
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A.
Herbert Howells
Herbert Howells was a 20th-century English composer and organist renowned for his choral and sacred music, particularly within the Anglican tradition.
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B.
William Walton
William Walton was a prominent 20th-century English composer known for his orchestral works, film scores, and ceremonial music.
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C.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams was a prominent 20th-century English composer known for his symphonies, choral works, and influential contributions to British ceremonial and folk-inspired music.
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D.
John Harbison
John Harbison is an American composer renowned for his orchestral, chamber, choral, and operatic works, and for his influential role in contemporary classical music.
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E.
David Rose
David Rose was a British-born American composer, arranger, and orchestra leader best known for his work in radio, television, and film music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English composer
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composer ⓘ orchestrator ⓘ person ⓘ |
| artisticMovement | 20th-century classical music ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Jacob ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music composition
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orchestration ⓘ |
| genre |
ceremonial music
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classical music ⓘ film score ⓘ wind band music ⓘ |
| givenName | Gordon ⓘ |
| knownFor |
British ceremonial music
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film music ⓘ wind band compositions ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Gordon Jacob self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
ceremonial music for state occasions
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film scores ⓘ wind band works ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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music educator ⓘ orchestrator ⓘ |
| style | tonal ⓘ |
| workContext | major state occasions in the 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: Gordon Jacob Description of subject: Gordon Jacob was a 20th-century English composer and orchestrator known for his wind band works, film scores, and ceremonial music for major state occasions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.