Derek McLane
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Derek McLane is a Tony Award–winning American scenic designer known for his inventive and visually striking work on numerous Broadway productions and live television events.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4098767 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Derek McLane Context triple: [Moulin Rouge! The Musical, scenicDesignBy, Derek McLane]
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George C. Wolfe
George C. Wolfe is an acclaimed American theater and film director and playwright known for his influential work on Broadway and in cinema, particularly in bringing powerful African American stories to the screen and stage.
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B.
Jon Jory
Jon Jory is an influential American theatre director, producer, and educator best known for his leadership at Actors Theatre of Louisville and his impact on contemporary regional theatre.
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C.
John Pielmeier
John Pielmeier is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor best known for his stage and screen work on psychological and religious dramas.
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D.
Eric Bogosian
Eric Bogosian is an American actor, playwright, and monologuist known for his intense character work in film, television, and theater, including roles in projects like "Talk Radio" and "Uncut Gems."
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E.
Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard was an American playwright, actor, and director renowned for his innovative, often haunting depictions of the American West and family dysfunction in works like "Buried Child" and "True West."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Derek McLane Target entity description: Derek McLane is a Tony Award–winning American scenic designer known for his inventive and visually striking work on numerous Broadway productions and live television events.
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A.
George C. Wolfe
George C. Wolfe is an acclaimed American theater and film director and playwright known for his influential work on Broadway and in cinema, particularly in bringing powerful African American stories to the screen and stage.
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B.
Jon Jory
Jon Jory is an influential American theatre director, producer, and educator best known for his leadership at Actors Theatre of Louisville and his impact on contemporary regional theatre.
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C.
John Pielmeier
John Pielmeier is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor best known for his stage and screen work on psychological and religious dramas.
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D.
Eric Bogosian
Eric Bogosian is an American actor, playwright, and monologuist known for his intense character work in film, television, and theater, including roles in projects like "Talk Radio" and "Uncut Gems."
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E.
Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard was an American playwright, actor, and director renowned for his innovative, often haunting depictions of the American West and family dysfunction in works like "Buried Child" and "True West."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Derek McLane Description of subject: Derek McLane is a Tony Award–winning American scenic designer known for his inventive and visually striking work on numerous Broadway productions and live television events.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.