Rick Steiner
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Rick Steiner was a prominent Broadway theatre producer known for backing numerous successful musicals and plays.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rick Steiner canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4864043 — 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: Rick Steiner Context triple: [The Secret Garden (1991 Broadway production), producedBy, Rick Steiner]
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A.
Eric Steelberg
Eric Steelberg is an American cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as "Juno," "Up in the Air," and "500 Days of Summer."
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B.
Jack Stapp
Jack Stapp was an influential American country music executive and publisher who played a key role in shaping Nashville’s music industry and co-founding major industry institutions.
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C.
Dan Stark
Dan Stark is a fictional, rule-bending veteran detective from the TV series "The Good Guys," portrayed by actor Bradley Whitford.
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D.
Chris Rodstrom
Chris Rodstrom is a former psychologist best known as the longtime wife of Hall of Fame NBA coach and executive Pat Riley.
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E.
Stephen Rojack
Stephen Rojack is the psychologically tormented, war-hero-turned-TV-personality at the center of Norman Mailer’s novel "An American Dream," whose violent actions and moral unraveling drive the book’s exploration of guilt, power, and existential crisis.
- 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: Rick Steiner Target entity description: Rick Steiner was a prominent Broadway theatre producer known for backing numerous successful musicals and plays.
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A.
Eric Steelberg
Eric Steelberg is an American cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as "Juno," "Up in the Air," and "500 Days of Summer."
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B.
Jack Stapp
Jack Stapp was an influential American country music executive and publisher who played a key role in shaping Nashville’s music industry and co-founding major industry institutions.
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C.
Dan Stark
Dan Stark is a fictional, rule-bending veteran detective from the TV series "The Good Guys," portrayed by actor Bradley Whitford.
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D.
Chris Rodstrom
Chris Rodstrom is a former psychologist best known as the longtime wife of Hall of Fame NBA coach and executive Pat Riley.
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E.
Stephen Rojack
Stephen Rojack is the psychologically tormented, war-hero-turned-TV-personality at the center of Norman Mailer’s novel "An American Dream," whose violent actions and moral unraveling drive the book’s exploration of guilt, power, and existential crisis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway producer
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theatre producer ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
early 21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Tony Award
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Tony Award for Best Musical ⓘ Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
commercial theatre
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entertainment industry ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
musical theatre ⓘ |
| knownFor |
backing commercially successful Broadway shows
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producing long‑running musicals ⓘ |
| notableAwardWork |
Hairspray
ⓘ
The Producers ⓘ
linked to:
The Producers franchise
|
| notableFor |
producing Broadway musicals
ⓘ
producing Broadway plays ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Big River
ⓘ
Hairspray ⓘ Hairspray (touring productions) ⓘ
linked to:
Hairspray
Into the Woods ⓘ Jelly’s Last Jam ⓘ
linked to:
Jelly's Last Jam
Legally Blonde ⓘ Smokey Joe’s Cafe ⓘ
linked to:
Smokey Joe's Cafe
The Life ⓘ The Producers ⓘ
linked to:
The Producers Sales Organization
The Producers (touring productions) ⓘ The Wedding Singer ⓘ Urinetown ⓘ |
| occupation |
Broadway producer
ⓘ
real estate investor ⓘ theatre producer ⓘ |
| produced |
Big River
ⓘ
Hairspray ⓘ Into the Woods ⓘ Jelly’s Last Jam ⓘ
linked to:
Jelly's Last Jam
Legally Blonde ⓘ Smokey Joe’s Cafe ⓘ
linked to:
Smokey Joe's Cafe
The Life ⓘ The Producers ⓘ
linked to:
The Producers franchise
The Wedding Singer ⓘ Urinetown ⓘ |
| workedIn | Broadway ⓘ |
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: Rick Steiner Description of subject: Rick Steiner was a prominent Broadway theatre producer known for backing numerous successful musicals and plays.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.