Tom Kitt
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Tom Kitt is an American composer, arranger, and music director best known for his Tony- and Pulitzer-winning work on the rock musical "Next to Normal" and other Broadway productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Kitt canonical | 65 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2060774 — 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: Tom Kitt Context triple: [Next to Normal, composer, Tom Kitt]
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A.
Thomas Kail
Thomas Kail is an American theater director best known for staging the hit Broadway musical "Hamilton" and winning major awards for his work in musical direction.
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B.
Henry Krieger
Henry Krieger is an American composer best known for his work on Broadway musicals, particularly the hit show "Dreamgirls."
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C.
Robert Lopez
Robert Lopez is an American songwriter and composer best known for co-creating the musicals "Avenue Q" and "The Book of Mormon" and for writing hit songs for Disney films such as "Frozen."
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D.
C. Adam Schlesinger
C. Adam Schlesinger was an American composer and songwriter best known for his work in film and television music, as well as for co-founding the band Fountains of Wayne.
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E.
Marc Shaiman
Marc Shaiman is an American composer, lyricist, and arranger best known for his work on film scores and Broadway musicals, including the music for "Mary Poppins Returns."
- 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: Tom Kitt Target entity description: Tom Kitt is an American composer, arranger, and music director best known for his Tony- and Pulitzer-winning work on the rock musical "Next to Normal" and other Broadway productions.
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A.
Thomas Kail
Thomas Kail is an American theater director best known for staging the hit Broadway musical "Hamilton" and winning major awards for his work in musical direction.
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B.
Henry Krieger
Henry Krieger is an American composer best known for his work on Broadway musicals, particularly the hit show "Dreamgirls."
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C.
Robert Lopez
Robert Lopez is an American songwriter and composer best known for co-creating the musicals "Avenue Q" and "The Book of Mormon" and for writing hit songs for Disney films such as "Frozen."
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D.
C. Adam Schlesinger
C. Adam Schlesinger was an American composer and songwriter best known for his work in film and television music, as well as for co-founding the band Fountains of Wayne.
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E.
Marc Shaiman
Marc Shaiman is an American composer, lyricist, and arranger best known for his work on film scores and Broadway musicals, including the music for "Mary Poppins Returns."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway composer
ⓘ
arranger ⓘ composer ⓘ human ⓘ music director ⓘ orchestrator ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
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Tony Award ⓘ Tony Award for Best Original Score ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| composer |
Tom Kitt
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Tom Kitt ⓘ Tom Kitt ⓘ Tom Kitt ⓘ Tom Kitt ⓘ Tom Kitt ⓘ Tom Kitt ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Broadway theatre industry ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
music
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theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
musical theatre
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rock musical ⓘ |
| hasGenre | contemporary musical theatre ⓘ |
| hasRole |
composer of Next to Normal
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music supervisor ⓘ orchestrator of Next to Normal ⓘ |
| knownFor |
rock musical Next to Normal
ⓘ
linked to:
Next to Normal
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Almost Famous (musical)
ⓘ
linked to:
Almost Famous
Bring It On: The Musical ⓘ Flying Over Sunset ⓘ High Fidelity ⓘ If/Then ⓘ Next to Normal ⓘ Next to Normal (Broadway production) ⓘ
linked to:
Next to Normal
Next to Normal original Broadway cast recording ⓘ
linked to:
Next to Normal
Superhero (musical) ⓘ |
| occupation |
arranger
ⓘ
composer ⓘ music director ⓘ orchestrator ⓘ |
| orchestrator | Tom Kitt ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | 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: Tom Kitt Description of subject: Tom Kitt is an American composer, arranger, and music director best known for his Tony- and Pulitzer-winning work on the rock musical "Next to Normal" and other Broadway productions.
Referenced by (65)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Broadway production of "If/Then"
subject linked to:
Tom Kitt
subject linked to:
Brian Yorkey
subject linked to:
Brian Yorkey
subject linked to:
High Fidelity (Broadway musical)
subject linked to:
High Fidelity (Broadway musical)
subject linked to:
If/Then (musical)
subject linked to:
If/Then (musical)