Bob Fosse
E135041
Broadway director
choreographer
dancer
film director
film producer
human
screenwriter
stage actor
theatre director
Bob Fosse was an influential American choreographer and director renowned for his distinctive, jazz-infused dance style and award-winning work on Broadway and in film, including "Cabaret" and "Chicago."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bob Fosse canonical | 39 |
| Fosse | 1 |
| Robert Louis Fosse | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1174942 — 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: Bob Fosse Context triple: [Best Direction of a Musical, notableWinner, Bob Fosse]
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A.
Stanley Donen
Stanley Donen was an American film director and choreographer best known for co-directing classic Hollywood musicals such as "Singin' in the Rain" and "On the Town."
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Busby Berkeley
Busby Berkeley was an influential American film director and choreographer renowned for his elaborate, geometric musical production numbers in Hollywood musicals of the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli was an American film director best known for his visually distinctive and influential Hollywood musicals, including classics like "An American in Paris" and "Gigi."
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D.
Harold Prince
Harold Prince was a legendary American theatre producer and director renowned for his work on landmark Broadway musicals such as "West Side Story," "Fiddler on the Roof," and "The Phantom of the Opera."
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E.
Agnes de Mille
Agnes de Mille was an influential American choreographer and dancer renowned for integrating character-driven, narrative choreography into mid-20th-century Broadway and ballet.
- 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: Bob Fosse Target entity description: Bob Fosse was an influential American choreographer and director renowned for his distinctive, jazz-infused dance style and award-winning work on Broadway and in film, including "Cabaret" and "Chicago."
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A.
Stanley Donen
Stanley Donen was an American film director and choreographer best known for co-directing classic Hollywood musicals such as "Singin' in the Rain" and "On the Town."
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B.
Busby Berkeley
Busby Berkeley was an influential American film director and choreographer renowned for his elaborate, geometric musical production numbers in Hollywood musicals of the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli was an American film director best known for his visually distinctive and influential Hollywood musicals, including classics like "An American in Paris" and "Gigi."
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D.
Harold Prince
Harold Prince was a legendary American theatre producer and director renowned for his work on landmark Broadway musicals such as "West Side Story," "Fiddler on the Roof," and "The Phantom of the Opera."
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E.
Agnes de Mille
Agnes de Mille was an influential American choreographer and dancer renowned for integrating character-driven, narrative choreography into mid-20th-century Broadway and ballet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Bob Fosse Description of subject: Bob Fosse was an influential American choreographer and director renowned for his distinctive, jazz-infused dance style and award-winning work on Broadway and in film, including "Cabaret" and "Chicago."
Referenced by (41)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Joe Gideon in All That Jazz
subject linked to:
Joe Gideon in All That Jazz
linked to: Bob Fosse
subject linked to:
Chicago
subject linked to:
Chicago
subject linked to:
Gwyneth Evelyn Verdon
subject linked to:
Gwyneth Evelyn Verdon