David Catlin
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David Catlin is an American theatre artist and director best known as a founding member and longtime ensemble member of Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Catlin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9473979 — 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: David Catlin Context triple: [Lookingglass Theatre Company, foundedBy, David Catlin]
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A.
John Sargent
John Sargent is a fictional character appearing in the 1940 romantic drama film "Remember the Night."
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B.
Alexander Catlin
Alexander Catlin was an American businessman best known as a founder of The Hartford, one of the United States’ oldest and most prominent insurance companies.
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C.
Daniel Smith
Daniel Smith is an American music industry professional best known as the former husband of singer-songwriter Solange Knowles.
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D.
Gary Hume
Gary Hume is a British painter known for his glossy, abstracted depictions of everyday subjects and his prominence within the Young British Artists movement of the late 20th century.
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E.
George Ault
George Ault was an American painter known for his haunting, meticulously structured depictions of urban and rural scenes that exemplify the Precisionist style of early 20th-century art.
- 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: David Catlin Target entity description: David Catlin is an American theatre artist and director best known as a founding member and longtime ensemble member of Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company.
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A.
John Sargent
John Sargent is a fictional character appearing in the 1940 romantic drama film "Remember the Night."
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B.
Alexander Catlin
Alexander Catlin was an American businessman best known as a founder of The Hartford, one of the United States’ oldest and most prominent insurance companies.
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C.
Daniel Smith
Daniel Smith is an American music industry professional best known as the former husband of singer-songwriter Solange Knowles.
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D.
Gary Hume
Gary Hume is a British painter known for his glossy, abstracted depictions of everyday subjects and his prominence within the Young British Artists movement of the late 20th century.
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E.
George Ault
George Ault was an American painter known for his haunting, meticulously structured depictions of urban and rural scenes that exemplify the Precisionist style of early 20th-century art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
founding member
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person ⓘ playwright ⓘ stage actor ⓘ theatre artist ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| basedIn | Chicago ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Lookingglass Theatre Company ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
performing arts
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playwriting ⓘ stage direction ⓘ |
| genre | theatre ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Lookingglass Theatre Company ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding member of Lookingglass Theatre Company
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longtime ensemble member of Lookingglass Theatre Company ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Lookingglass Alice
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Moby Dick (stage adaptation) ⓘ The Little Prince (stage adaptation) ⓘ |
| occupation |
playwright
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stage actor ⓘ theatre artist ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
ensemble member at Lookingglass Theatre Company
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founding ensemble member at Lookingglass Theatre Company ⓘ |
| workLocation | Chicago ⓘ |
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: David Catlin Description of subject: David Catlin is an American theatre artist and director best known as a founding member and longtime ensemble member of Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.