Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film score)
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"Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is a dramatic film score by composer Alex North, written for the 1966 film adaptation of Edward Albee’s play and noted for its tense, psychologically driven orchestral style.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (cinematography) | 1 |
| Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film score) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8239843 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film score) Context triple: [Alex North, notableWork, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film score)]
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A.
Psycho (1960 film) score
The "Psycho" (1960) score is Bernard Herrmann’s iconic, string-only film soundtrack, renowned for its shrieking violins and tense motifs that revolutionized horror movie music.
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B.
The Dressmaker (film score)
The Dressmaker (film score) is a 2015 film soundtrack composed by David Hirschfelder that blends sweeping orchestral themes with quirky, dramatic motifs to complement the darkly comic tone of the Australian film.
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C.
Vertigo (1958 film) score
The Vertigo (1958 film) score is Bernard Herrmann’s haunting, psychologically driven orchestral soundtrack that is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential film scores in cinema history.
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D.
Fahrenheit 451 (1966 film) score
The score for the 1966 film "Fahrenheit 451" is a distinctive, atmospheric orchestral soundtrack composed by Bernard Herrmann that underscores the movie’s dystopian mood and emotional tension.
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E.
What Women Want (film score)
What Women Want (film score) is the original musical soundtrack composed by Alan Silvestri for the 2000 romantic comedy film "What Women Want."
- 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: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film score) Target entity description: "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is a dramatic film score by composer Alex North, written for the 1966 film adaptation of Edward Albee’s play and noted for its tense, psychologically driven orchestral style.
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A.
Psycho (1960 film) score
The "Psycho" (1960) score is Bernard Herrmann’s iconic, string-only film soundtrack, renowned for its shrieking violins and tense motifs that revolutionized horror movie music.
-
B.
The Dressmaker (film score)
The Dressmaker (film score) is a 2015 film soundtrack composed by David Hirschfelder that blends sweeping orchestral themes with quirky, dramatic motifs to complement the darkly comic tone of the Australian film.
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C.
Vertigo (1958 film) score
The Vertigo (1958 film) score is Bernard Herrmann’s haunting, psychologically driven orchestral soundtrack that is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential film scores in cinema history.
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D.
Fahrenheit 451 (1966 film) score
The score for the 1966 film "Fahrenheit 451" is a distinctive, atmospheric orchestral soundtrack composed by Bernard Herrmann that underscores the movie’s dystopian mood and emotional tension.
-
E.
What Women Want (film score)
What Women Want (film score) is the original musical soundtrack composed by Alan Silvestri for the 2000 romantic comedy film "What Women Want."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film score
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orchestral work ⓘ |
| associatedWithGenre | drama film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Edward Albee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composedFor | 1966 film adaptation of Edward Albee’s play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ⓘ |
| composer | Alex North NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| era | 20th-century film music ⓘ |
| forFilm | Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
dramatic film score
ⓘ
orchestral ⓘ |
| linkedToCharacterFocus | psychological conflict of main characters ⓘ |
| medium | music for motion picture ⓘ |
| notableFor |
psychological intensity
ⓘ
tense orchestral writing ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | none (instrumental) ⓘ |
| partOfComposerOeuvre | film scores by Alex North ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | underscore dramatic tension in the film ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1966 ⓘ |
| style |
psychologically driven
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tense ⓘ |
| uses | orchestra ⓘ |
| workTitle | Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film score) Description of subject: "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is a dramatic film score by composer Alex North, written for the 1966 film adaptation of Edward Albee’s play and noted for its tense, psychologically driven orchestral style.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Haskell Wexler
this entity surface form:
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (cinematography)