The Performing Garage
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The Performing Garage is an experimental theater space in New York City best known as the longtime base of the avant-garde theater company The Wooster Group.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Performing Garage canonical | 5 |
| The Performing Garage (workshops) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10124645 — 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: The Performing Garage Context triple: [The Wooster Group, homeVenue, The Performing Garage]
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A.
In the Garage
"In the Garage" is a nostalgic, guitar-driven rock song by Weezer that celebrates geeky, outsider identity and personal sanctuary, featured on their self-titled 1994 debut album commonly known as the Blue Album.
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B.
Garage Days
Garage Days is a 2002 Australian rock-and-roll comedy film about a struggling Sydney garage band trying to make it big.
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C.
American Garage
American Garage is a 1979 jazz fusion album by the Pat Metheny Group that helped establish Metheny’s signature melodic and atmospheric style.
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D.
Grapefruit Garage
Grapefruit Garage is a multi-level parking facility serving visitors to Disney Springs at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.
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E.
Chop Shop
Chop Shop is a critically acclaimed 2007 independent drama film set in Queens, New York, following a young boy working in an auto-body repair district, directed by Ramin Bahrani.
- 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: The Performing Garage Target entity description: The Performing Garage is an experimental theater space in New York City best known as the longtime base of the avant-garde theater company The Wooster Group.
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A.
In the Garage
"In the Garage" is a nostalgic, guitar-driven rock song by Weezer that celebrates geeky, outsider identity and personal sanctuary, featured on their self-titled 1994 debut album commonly known as the Blue Album.
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B.
Garage Days
Garage Days is a 2002 Australian rock-and-roll comedy film about a struggling Sydney garage band trying to make it big.
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C.
American Garage
American Garage is a 1979 jazz fusion album by the Pat Metheny Group that helped establish Metheny’s signature melodic and atmospheric style.
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D.
Grapefruit Garage
Grapefruit Garage is a multi-level parking facility serving visitors to Disney Springs at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.
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E.
Chop Shop
Chop Shop is a critically acclaimed 2007 independent drama film set in Queens, New York, following a young boy working in an auto-body repair district, directed by Ramin Bahrani.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
experimental theater
ⓘ
off-off-Broadway theater ⓘ |
| artForm | theater ⓘ |
| associatedWith | The Wooster Group ⓘ |
| audienceCapacity | small venue ⓘ |
| audienceType | public ⓘ |
| bestKnownAs | longtime base of The Wooster Group ⓘ |
| cityBorough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| culturalScene | downtown New York theater ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | important site in New York avant-garde theater history ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
avant-garde theater
ⓘ
experimental theater ⓘ |
| hasType | black box theater ⓘ |
| knownFor |
experimental dramaturgy
ⓘ
innovative staging ⓘ multimedia performance ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| locatedInNeighborhood | SoHo ⓘ |
| notableFor |
avant-garde theater productions
ⓘ
experimental performance work ⓘ |
| operatingStatus | active ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| programmingFocus | experimental work rather than commercial theater ⓘ |
| region | New York State ⓘ |
| usedBy | The Wooster Group ⓘ |
| venueFor |
performance art
ⓘ
rehearsals of The Wooster Group ⓘ theatrical performances ⓘ |
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: The Performing Garage Description of subject: The Performing Garage is an experimental theater space in New York City best known as the longtime base of the avant-garde theater company The Wooster Group.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Performing Garage