Samuel French
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Samuel French is a prominent theatrical publishing and licensing company known for distributing plays and performance rights to theaters worldwide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samuel French canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T864390 — 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.
Target entity: Samuel French Context triple: [Cause Célèbre, firstPublisher, Samuel French]
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Thomas McCarter
Thomas McCarter was an American businessman and utility executive best known as the founder of the energy company Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG).
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B.
Albert Hackett
Albert Hackett was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for co-writing classic films such as "The Thin Man" and "It's a Wonderful Life," often in collaboration with his wife Frances Goodrich.
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C.
George Weil
George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
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D.
John McShain
John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
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E.
Moss Hart
Moss Hart was a prominent American playwright and director best known for his Broadway collaborations with George S. Kaufman and his influential contributions to mid-20th-century theater and film.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Samuel French Target entity description: Samuel French is a prominent theatrical publishing and licensing company known for distributing plays and performance rights to theaters worldwide.
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A.
Thomas McCarter
Thomas McCarter was an American businessman and utility executive best known as the founder of the energy company Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG).
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B.
Albert Hackett
Albert Hackett was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for co-writing classic films such as "The Thin Man" and "It's a Wonderful Life," often in collaboration with his wife Frances Goodrich.
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C.
George Weil
George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
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D.
John McShain
John McShain was an American building contractor known for constructing major U.S. landmarks, including the Pentagon and significant parts of Washington, D.C.'s federal architecture.
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E.
Moss Hart
Moss Hart was a prominent American playwright and director best known for his Broadway collaborations with George S. Kaufman and his influential contributions to mid-20th-century theater and film.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
play licensing company
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theatrical publishing company ⓘ |
| businessModel |
royalty licensing
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script publishing ⓘ |
| category |
dramatic licensing agency
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theatrical publisher ⓘ |
| client |
amateur theatres
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community theatres ⓘ professional theatres ⓘ schools ⓘ |
| countryOfOperation |
United Kingdom
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| distributesTo | theatres worldwide ⓘ |
| focus |
full-length plays
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musicals ⓘ one-act plays ⓘ stage plays ⓘ |
| hasOfficeIn |
London, England
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surface form:
London
New York City ⓘ |
| industry |
licensing
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publishing ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| knownFor |
distributing plays to theatres
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licensing performance rights ⓘ |
| product |
musical theatre scripts
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performance rights ⓘ playscripts ⓘ |
| serviceArea | worldwide ⓘ |
| worksWith |
composers
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lyricists ⓘ playwrights ⓘ |
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.
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.
Subject: Samuel French Description of subject: Samuel French is a prominent theatrical publishing and licensing company known for distributing plays and performance rights to theaters worldwide.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.