Quad
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"Quad" is a short, wordless television play by Samuel Beckett, known for its precise choreography of four robed figures moving in geometric patterns on a square stage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Quad canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3446975 — 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: Quad Context triple: [Billie Whitelaw, notableWork, Quad]
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A.
New Quad
New Quad is one of the main quadrangles of The Queen's College, Oxford, known for its collegiate architecture and central role in college life.
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B.
Cuartero
Cuartero is a rural municipality in the province of Capiz in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines.
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C.
Kwinti
Kwinti are a Maroon Afro-Surinamese community in Suriname, known for their distinct culture, history of resistance to slavery, and unique linguistic and religious traditions.
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D.
SQ
SQ is the IATA airline designator used worldwide to identify Singapore Airlines on tickets, timetables, and flight numbers.
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E.
Tetro
Tetro is a 2009 drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, in which Maribel Verdú plays a key supporting role in a story about fractured family relationships and artistic rivalry in Buenos Aires.
- 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: Quad Target entity description: "Quad" is a short, wordless television play by Samuel Beckett, known for its precise choreography of four robed figures moving in geometric patterns on a square stage.
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A.
New Quad
New Quad is one of the main quadrangles of The Queen's College, Oxford, known for its collegiate architecture and central role in college life.
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B.
Cuartero
Cuartero is a rural municipality in the province of Capiz in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines.
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C.
Kwinti
Kwinti are a Maroon Afro-Surinamese community in Suriname, known for their distinct culture, history of resistance to slavery, and unique linguistic and religious traditions.
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D.
SQ
SQ is the IATA airline designator used worldwide to identify Singapore Airlines on tickets, timetables, and flight numbers.
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E.
Tetro
Tetro is a 2009 drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, in which Maribel Verdú plays a key supporting role in a story about fractured family relationships and artistic rivalry in Buenos Aires.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
experimental theatre work
ⓘ
television play ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Quadrat
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Quadrat I + II ⓘ |
| author | Samuel Beckett ⓘ |
| costume | hooded robes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| creator | Samuel Beckett ⓘ |
| dialogue | none ⓘ |
| dramaticForm |
movement piece
ⓘ
wordless play ⓘ |
| feature |
four robed figures
ⓘ
geometric movement patterns ⓘ precise choreography ⓘ |
| format | television ⓘ |
| genre |
absurdist drama
ⓘ
minimalist theatre ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Quad I
ⓘ
Quad II ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
Quad I
ⓘ
Quad II ⓘ |
| language | wordless ⓘ |
| medium | television film ⓘ |
| movementPattern |
diagonals of a square
ⓘ
perimeter of a square ⓘ |
| movementStyle | strictly patterned walking ⓘ |
| notableFor |
absence of dialogue
ⓘ
geometric choreography ⓘ mathematical precision of blocking ⓘ |
| numberOfCharacters | 4 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | none ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | Süddeutscher Rundfunk ⓘ |
| premiereMedium | television ⓘ |
| productionType | studio television recording ⓘ |
| setting | square stage ⓘ |
| soundDesign |
no spoken words
ⓘ
percussive footsteps ⓘ |
| structure | movement-based ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | formal exploration of space and time ⓘ |
| theme |
abstraction
ⓘ
repetition ⓘ variation ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 20th century ⓘ |
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: Quad Description of subject: "Quad" is a short, wordless television play by Samuel Beckett, known for its precise choreography of four robed figures moving in geometric patterns on a square stage.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.