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Jonathan Bates: Career, Early life & Personal life

Jonathan Bates (1 November 1939 – 31 October 2008) was an English sound editor. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Sound for the film Gandhi, and won a BAFTA in 1988 for his work on the film Cry Freedom alongside long-term collaborators Gerry Humphreys and Simon Kaye.

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Jonathan Bates topic overview

The analysis highlights Career, Early life and Personal life as prominent areas in the source structure around Jonathan Bates.

Related topics
19
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
23
Extracted relationships
31
Concept neighborhoods
12
Bridge connections
23

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 8 topics
Career · 6 topics
Early life · 3 topics
Personal life · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Occupation
Sound Editor
Awards
BAFTA for Sound on Cry Freedom (1988)
Education
The King's School, Canterbury
Born
(1939-11-01)1 November 1939 Little Chart, Kent, England
Children
Tim and Catherine
Died
31 October 2008(2008-10-31) (aged 68) Esher, Surrey, England

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Early life

Career

Personal life

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Jonathan Bates connects Entity context

The extracted context around Jonathan Bates shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Jonathan Bates → Borehamwood, Brian, Ealing Studios, He, Hutton, Jack Gold, Lewis Gilbert, Richard Attenborough, Sound Another extracted example is Jonathan Bates → Bates, Canterbury, David Lean, He, November, The King's School. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Jonathan Bates

Top relations

related to Career · 9
Jonathan Bates → Borehamwood, Brian, Ealing Studios, He, Hutton, Jack Gold, Lewis Gilbert, Richard Attenborough, Sound
related to Early life · 6
Jonathan Bates → Bates, Canterbury, David Lean, He, November, The King's School
related to External links · 4
Jonathan Bates → IMDbObituary, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times
Awards · 1
Jonathan Bates → BAFTA for Sound on Cry Freedom (1988)
Born · 1
Jonathan Bates → (1939-11-01)1 November 1939 Little Chart, Kent, England
Children · 1
Jonathan Bates → Tim and Catherine
Died · 1
Jonathan Bates → 31 October 2008(2008-10-31) (aged 68) Esher, Surrey, England
Education · 1
Jonathan Bates → The King's School, Canterbury
Father · 1
Jonathan Bates → H. E. Bates
Notable credit(s) · 1
Jonathan Bates → Gandhi Cry Freedom A Chorus Line

Important terminology

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Important terminology

bates sound editor jonathan cry freedom gandhi 2008 bafta school 1988 awards november 1939 film work canterbury early career born

Jonathan Bates relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 31 structured relationships around Jonathan Bates. Examples in this analysis include Jonathan Bates → Awards → BAFTA for Sound on Cry Freedom (1988) and Jonathan Bates → Born → (1939-11-01)1 November 1939 Little Chart, Kent, England. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Jonathan BatesAwardsBAFTA for Sound on Cry Freedom (1988)1.00infobox
Jonathan BatesBorn(1939-11-01)1 November 1939 Little Chart, Kent, England1.00infobox
Jonathan BatesChildrenTim and Catherine1.00infobox
Jonathan BatesDied31 October 2008(2008-10-31) (aged 68) Esher, Surrey, England1.00infobox
Jonathan BatesEducationThe King's School, Canterbury1.00infobox
Jonathan BatesFatherH. E. Bates1.00infobox
Jonathan BatesNotable credit(s)Gandhi Cry Freedom A Chorus Line1.00infobox
Jonathan BatesOccupationSound Editor1.00infobox
Jonathan BatesRelativesVictoria Wicks1.00infobox
Jonathan BatesResting placeSt Peter's Churchyard, Petersham1.00infobox
Jonathan BatesSpouseJennifer Thompson1.00infobox
Jonathan BatesYears active1959–20071.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Jonathan Bates bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Jonathan, November and Sound. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • sound editor
    • Career
    • Sound
    • Awards
    • Born
    • Children
    • School
    • Jonathan
    • English
    • October
    • Also
    • Canterbury
    • Catherine
  • best sound
    • Category
    • Nominated
    • Bafta
    • Film
    • Gandhi
    • Work
    • Awards
    • Born
    • Career
    • Children
    • Cry
    • Freedom
  • cry freedom
    • Freedom
    • Awards
    • Born
    • Children
    • Gandhi
    • Sound
    • Nominated
    • Canterbury
    • Career
    • Catherine
    • Died
    • Early
  • Jonathan Bates
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    • November
    • Sound
    • Editor
    • English
    • October
    • Awards
    • Bafta
    • Born
    • Career
    • Children
    • Film
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    • Jonathan
    • November
    • Sound
    • Editor
    • English
    • October
    • Awards
    • Bafta
    • Born
    • Career
    • Children
    • Film
  • h. e. bates
    • Jonathan
    • Sound
    • November
    • Editor
    • English
    • October
    • Also
    • Awards
    • Bafta
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    • Career
    • Children
  • gandhi
    • Cry
    • Freedom
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    • Bafta
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    • Canterbury
    • Career
    • Catherine
    • Children
    • Died
  • career
    • School
    • Editor
    • Sound
    • Awards
    • Born
    • Canterbury
    • Catherine
    • Children
    • Died
    • Early
    • Film
    • Gandhi

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Jonathan Bates, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Jonathan Bates with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Jonathan Bates — Overview · splits 15 ⟂ 9
Jonathan Bates — Career · splits 17 ⟂ 7
Jonathan Bates — Early life · splits 20 ⟂ 4
Jonathan Bates — Personal life · splits 21 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Jonathan Bates

Nodes24
Edges23
Triples31
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.083333
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Jonathan Bates to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Career, Early life & Personal life, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Jonathan Bates · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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