Morton Gould
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Morton Gould was an American composer, conductor, and pianist known for blending classical and popular music styles and for his prolific contributions to 20th-century American music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Morton Gould canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10954666 — 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: Morton Gould Context triple: [New York College of Music, notableAlumni, Morton Gould]
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A.
Fletcher Previn
Fletcher Previn is an American technology executive best known for serving as Chief Information Officer at IBM and later at Cisco.
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B.
Carlton Alsop
Carlton Alsop was an American literary agent and the third husband of actress Sylvia Sidney.
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C.
Leonard Rosenman
Leonard Rosenman was an American composer best known for his innovative, modernist film and television scores in the 1950s and beyond.
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D.
Eric Coates
Eric Coates was a British computer scientist known for his involvement in early information retrieval and classification research, including work with the influential Classification Research Group.
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E.
Eric Coates
Eric Coates was a British composer best known for his light orchestral music and popular marches that became widely familiar through radio and film.
- 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: Morton Gould Target entity description: Morton Gould was an American composer, conductor, and pianist known for blending classical and popular music styles and for his prolific contributions to 20th-century American music.
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A.
Fletcher Previn
Fletcher Previn is an American technology executive best known for serving as Chief Information Officer at IBM and later at Cisco.
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B.
Carlton Alsop
Carlton Alsop was an American literary agent and the third husband of actress Sylvia Sidney.
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C.
Leonard Rosenman
Leonard Rosenman was an American composer best known for his innovative, modernist film and television scores in the 1950s and beyond.
-
D.
Eric Coates
Eric Coates was a British computer scientist known for his involvement in early information retrieval and classification research, including work with the influential Classification Research Group.
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E.
Eric Coates
Eric Coates was a British composer best known for his light orchestral music and popular marches that became widely familiar through radio and film.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American composer
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composer ⓘ conductor ⓘ human ⓘ pianist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grammy Award
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Kennedy Center Honor NERFINISHED ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
USA
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1913-12-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1996-02-21 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Gould NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
American classical music
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classical music ⓘ popular music ⓘ |
| givenName | Morton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| instrument | piano ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
ASCAP
NERFINISHED
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American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | 20th-century classical music ⓘ |
| name | Morton Gould NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
blended classical and popular music styles
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prolific contributor to 20th-century American music ⓘ |
| notableWork |
American Salute
NERFINISHED
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Fall River Legend NERFINISHED ⓘ Latin-American Symphonette NERFINISHED ⓘ Spirituals for Orchestra NERFINISHED ⓘ Stringmusic NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Symphony No. 4 "West Point" NERFINISHED ⓘ Tap Dance Concerto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
ⓘ
conductor ⓘ pianist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ Richmond Hill, Queens NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Florida
NERFINISHED
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Orlando NERFINISHED ⓘ Orlando, Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
president of ASCAP
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president of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Morton Gould Description of subject: Morton Gould was an American composer, conductor, and pianist known for blending classical and popular music styles and for his prolific contributions to 20th-century American music.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.