David Lawrence
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David Lawrence is an American composer and arranger known for his work on film and television scores, including contributions to projects like "American Pie."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Lawrence canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5913975 — 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: David Lawrence Context triple: [American Pie, musicBy, David Lawrence]
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A.
David Lawrence
David Lawrence was an American journalist and magazine editor best known as the founder of the news magazine U.S. News & World Report.
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B.
Robert Lawrence
Robert Lawrence was a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the historical epic "Spartacus" (1960).
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C.
Lawrence Guth
Lawrence Guth is an American mathematician known for his influential work in harmonic analysis, combinatorial geometry, and incidence geometry.
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D.
George Lawrence
George Lawrence was a 19th-century British figure best known as the brother of John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, a prominent colonial administrator in British India.
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E.
William Van Duzer Lawrence
William Van Duzer Lawrence was an American real estate and pharmaceutical magnate and philanthropist best known for establishing Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.
- 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: David Lawrence Target entity description: David Lawrence is an American composer and arranger known for his work on film and television scores, including contributions to projects like "American Pie."
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A.
David Lawrence
David Lawrence was an American journalist and magazine editor best known as the founder of the news magazine U.S. News & World Report.
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B.
Robert Lawrence
Robert Lawrence was a film editor best known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the historical epic "Spartacus" (1960).
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C.
Lawrence Guth
Lawrence Guth is an American mathematician known for his influential work in harmonic analysis, combinatorial geometry, and incidence geometry.
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D.
George Lawrence
George Lawrence was a 19th-century British figure best known as the brother of John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, a prominent colonial administrator in British India.
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E.
William Van Duzer Lawrence
William Van Duzer Lawrence was an American real estate and pharmaceutical magnate and philanthropist best known for establishing Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
ⓘ
music arranger ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activityStart | 1990s ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
film score
ⓘ
television score ⓘ |
| hasNotableProject |
American Pie (1999 film)
NERFINISHED
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American Pie 2 (2001 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ American Reunion (2012 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ American Wedding (2003 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isA |
American film composer
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American television composer ⓘ |
| knownFor |
composing music for films
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composing music for television ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | American Pie (film series) – score composer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
film score composer ⓘ music arranger ⓘ television score composer ⓘ |
| workField |
film music
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music composition ⓘ television music ⓘ |
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: David Lawrence Description of subject: David Lawrence is an American composer and arranger known for his work on film and television scores, including contributions to projects like "American Pie."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
American Pie 2