Michael Yeargan
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Michael Yeargan is an American scenic designer renowned for his work in opera and theatre, including major productions at leading companies such as the Metropolitan Opera and Broadway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Yeargan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4052634 — 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: Michael Yeargan Context triple: [The Great Gatsby (opera), firstProductionDesigner, Michael Yeargan]
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A.
Michael Gilio
Michael Gilio is an American screenwriter and filmmaker best known for co-writing the fantasy adventure film "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves."
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B.
Jeff Cronenweth
Jeff Cronenweth is an American cinematographer known for his stylish, atmospheric work on films such as "The Social Network" and collaborations with director David Fincher.
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C.
Colin Kroll
Colin Kroll was an American technology entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the short-form video platform Vine and the mobile trivia game HQ Trivia.
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D.
Chris McKenna
Chris McKenna is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on films like the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Spider-Man series and TV shows such as Community.
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E.
Michael Finnell
Michael Finnell is an American film producer best known for his work on popular 1980s and 1990s genre films, including collaborations with director Joe Dante.
- 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: Michael Yeargan Target entity description: Michael Yeargan is an American scenic designer renowned for his work in opera and theatre, including major productions at leading companies such as the Metropolitan Opera and Broadway.
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A.
Michael Gilio
Michael Gilio is an American screenwriter and filmmaker best known for co-writing the fantasy adventure film "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves."
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B.
Jeff Cronenweth
Jeff Cronenweth is an American cinematographer known for his stylish, atmospheric work on films such as "The Social Network" and collaborations with director David Fincher.
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C.
Colin Kroll
Colin Kroll was an American technology entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the short-form video platform Vine and the mobile trivia game HQ Trivia.
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D.
Chris McKenna
Chris McKenna is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on films like the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Spider-Man series and TV shows such as Community.
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E.
Michael Finnell
Michael Finnell is an American film producer best known for his work on popular 1980s and 1990s genre films, including collaborations with director Joe Dante.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
opera designer
ⓘ
person ⓘ scenic designer ⓘ set designer ⓘ theatre designer ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design
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Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Yale School of Drama ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
musical theatre
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opera ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
opera production design
ⓘ
theatrical set design ⓘ |
| hasCreatedSceneryFor |
Broadway musicals
ⓘ
Broadway plays ⓘ
linked to:
Broadway theater
major opera houses worldwide ⓘ |
| hasWorkedFor |
Broadway
ⓘ
English National Opera ⓘ Houston Grand Opera ⓘ Lincoln Center Theater ⓘ Lyric Opera of Chicago ⓘ Metropolitan Opera ⓘ New York City Opera ⓘ Royal Opera House ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
San Francisco Opera ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Drama Desk Award
ⓘ
Tony Award ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaborations with leading opera directors
ⓘ
elegant and atmospheric scenic designs ⓘ teaching scenic design at Yale School of Drama ⓘ |
| notableStudent | contemporary American theatre designers ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Aida (Metropolitan Opera production)
ⓘ
linked to:
Aida
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Metropolitan Opera production) ⓘ La Traviata (Metropolitan Opera production) ⓘ
linked to:
La Traviata
South Pacific (2008 Broadway revival) ⓘ
linked to:
South Pacific (stage production)
The King and I (2015 Broadway revival) ⓘ
linked to:
The King and I (Broadway revival, 2015)
The Light in the Piazza ⓘ
linked to:
Light in the Piazza
|
| occupation |
professor
ⓘ
scenic designer ⓘ set designer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of design at Yale School of Drama ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Michael Yeargan Description of subject: Michael Yeargan is an American scenic designer renowned for his work in opera and theatre, including major productions at leading companies such as the Metropolitan Opera and Broadway.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.