Christopher Wheeldon
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Christopher Wheeldon is a renowned British choreographer and former dancer known for his innovative contemporary ballets created for major companies worldwide, including The Royal Ballet and New York City Ballet.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Christopher Wheeldon canonical | 30 |
| Christopher Peter Wheeldon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2271521 — 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: Christopher Wheeldon Context triple: [San Francisco Ballet, notableChoreographerAssociated, Christopher Wheeldon]
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A.
Andy Blankenbuehler
Andy Blankenbuehler is a Tony Award–winning American choreographer and director best known for his innovative, hip-hop–infused work on Broadway musicals such as In the Heights, Hamilton, and Bandstand.
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B.
William Forsythe
William Forsythe is an American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in action and crime films and television series.
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C.
James Lapine
James Lapine is an American playwright and director best known for his long-running collaboration with composer Stephen Sondheim on acclaimed musicals such as "Into the Woods" and "Sunday in the Park with George."
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D.
Susan Stroman
Susan Stroman is an acclaimed American theatre director and choreographer best known for her innovative work on Broadway musicals such as "The Producers."
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E.
Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp is an acclaimed American choreographer and dancer known for her innovative blend of ballet, modern dance, and popular music in both concert works and Broadway productions.
- 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: Christopher Wheeldon Target entity description: Christopher Wheeldon is a renowned British choreographer and former dancer known for his innovative contemporary ballets created for major companies worldwide, including The Royal Ballet and New York City Ballet.
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A.
Andy Blankenbuehler
Andy Blankenbuehler is a Tony Award–winning American choreographer and director best known for his innovative, hip-hop–infused work on Broadway musicals such as In the Heights, Hamilton, and Bandstand.
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B.
William Forsythe
William Forsythe is an American character actor known for his intense, often villainous roles in action and crime films and television series.
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C.
James Lapine
James Lapine is an American playwright and director best known for his long-running collaboration with composer Stephen Sondheim on acclaimed musicals such as "Into the Woods" and "Sunday in the Park with George."
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D.
Susan Stroman
Susan Stroman is an acclaimed American theatre director and choreographer best known for her innovative work on Broadway musicals such as "The Producers."
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E.
Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp is an acclaimed American choreographer and dancer known for her innovative blend of ballet, modern dance, and popular music in both concert works and Broadway productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Christopher Wheeldon Description of subject: Christopher Wheeldon is a renowned British choreographer and former dancer known for his innovative contemporary ballets created for major companies worldwide, including The Royal Ballet and New York City Ballet.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Christopher Wheeldon
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Royal Ballet production)
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