The New Group
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The New Group is an Off-Broadway theater company in New York City known for producing innovative, often edgy new plays and musicals.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The New Group canonical | 4 |
| The New Group production of Rafta, Rafta... | 1 |
| The New Group production of The Starry Messenger | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13004964 — 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: The New Group Context triple: [Clueless (stage musical), producedBy, The New Group]
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A.
Group Theatre (New York)
The Group Theatre (New York) was a pioneering American theater collective founded in the 1930s that introduced socially conscious drama and method acting techniques to the U.S. stage.
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B.
The Acting Company
The Acting Company is a renowned American touring classical theatre company known for launching the careers of actors such as Kevin Kline and promoting theatre arts across the United States.
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C.
The Wooster Group
The Wooster Group is an experimental New York City theater company renowned for its avant-garde, multimedia stage productions and influential role in contemporary performance art.
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D.
Roundabout Theatre Company
Roundabout Theatre Company is a major New York City nonprofit theatre organization known for its Broadway and Off-Broadway productions of classic plays, revivals, and new works.
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E.
Circle in the Square Theatre Company
Circle in the Square Theatre Company is a prominent New York City-based non-profit theatre organization known for its innovative productions and contributions to the American stage.
- 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: The New Group Target entity description: The New Group is an Off-Broadway theater company in New York City known for producing innovative, often edgy new plays and musicals.
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A.
Group Theatre (New York)
The Group Theatre (New York) was a pioneering American theater collective founded in the 1930s that introduced socially conscious drama and method acting techniques to the U.S. stage.
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B.
The Acting Company
The Acting Company is a renowned American touring classical theatre company known for launching the careers of actors such as Kevin Kline and promoting theatre arts across the United States.
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C.
The Wooster Group
The Wooster Group is an experimental New York City theater company renowned for its avant-garde, multimedia stage productions and influential role in contemporary performance art.
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D.
Roundabout Theatre Company
Roundabout Theatre Company is a major New York City nonprofit theatre organization known for its Broadway and Off-Broadway productions of classic plays, revivals, and new works.
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E.
Circle in the Square Theatre Company
Circle in the Square Theatre Company is a prominent New York City-based non-profit theatre organization known for its innovative productions and contributions to the American stage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Off-Broadway theater company
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non-profit theater company ⓘ |
| artForm | theater ⓘ |
| artisticDiscipline | live performance ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| creativeFocus |
collaboration with contemporary playwrights
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new writing for the stage ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
contemporary plays
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edgy material ⓘ innovative theater ⓘ new works ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ musical theater ⓘ |
| hasPerformanceVenueType | Off-Broadway theater ⓘ |
| industry |
performing arts
ⓘ
theater production ⓘ |
| knownFor |
producing edgy new plays
ⓘ
producing innovative new plays ⓘ producing new musicals ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
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New York City ⓘ |
| operatesIn | New York City theater scene ⓘ |
| programmingIncludes |
musicals
ⓘ
new American plays ⓘ plays ⓘ world premieres ⓘ |
| reputation |
artistically adventurous
ⓘ
edgy ⓘ innovative ⓘ |
| serves | New York City theater audiences ⓘ |
| theaterType | Off-Broadway ⓘ |
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: The New Group Description of subject: The New Group is an Off-Broadway theater company in New York City known for producing innovative, often edgy new plays and musicals.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The New Group
linked to: The New Group