Douglas W. Schmidt
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Douglas W. Schmidt is an American scenic designer known for his work on numerous Broadway productions and other major theatrical projects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Douglas W. Schmidt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3051803 — 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: Douglas W. Schmidt Context triple: [The Front Page (2016 Broadway revival), setDesigner, Douglas W. Schmidt]
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A.
Norbert J. Schneider
Norbert J. Schneider is a composer best known for his film score work, including the music for the 1993 war film "Stalingrad."
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B.
Adrian D. Smith
Adrian D. Smith is an American architect renowned for designing some of the world’s tallest and most iconic skyscrapers.
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C.
Michael T. Williamson
Michael T. Williamson is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the film Forrest Gump.
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D.
Michael T. Sauer
Michael T. Sauer was an American judge best known for presiding over high-profile criminal cases in Los Angeles County.
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E.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
- 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: Douglas W. Schmidt Target entity description: Douglas W. Schmidt is an American scenic designer known for his work on numerous Broadway productions and other major theatrical projects.
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A.
Norbert J. Schneider
Norbert J. Schneider is a composer best known for his film score work, including the music for the 1993 war film "Stalingrad."
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B.
Adrian D. Smith
Adrian D. Smith is an American architect renowned for designing some of the world’s tallest and most iconic skyscrapers.
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C.
Michael T. Williamson
Michael T. Williamson is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the film Forrest Gump.
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D.
Michael T. Sauer
Michael T. Sauer was an American judge best known for presiding over high-profile criminal cases in Los Angeles County.
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E.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
scenic designer ⓘ set designer ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century theatre
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21st-century theatre ⓘ |
| basedIn | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Broadway productions ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Broadway theatre
ⓘ
linked to:
Broadway theater
scenic design ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | stage design ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Schmidt ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Douglas ⓘ |
| hasMiddleInitial | W. ⓘ |
| isA | American scenic designer ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Broadway scenic design
ⓘ
set designs for major theatrical productions ⓘ work on major theatrical projects ⓘ work on numerous Broadway productions ⓘ |
| occupation |
scenic designer
ⓘ
set designer ⓘ theatre designer ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Douglas W. Schmidt Description of subject: Douglas W. Schmidt is an American scenic designer known for his work on numerous Broadway productions and other major theatrical projects.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.