Erlanger’s Theatre
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Erlanger’s Theatre was a historic Broadway playhouse in New York City that later became known as the St. James Theatre.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Erlanger Theatre | 1 |
| Erlanger’s Theatre canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T914044 — 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: Erlanger’s Theatre Context triple: [St. James Theatre, formerName, Erlanger’s Theatre]
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A.
Lion Theatre
Lion Theatre is an Off-Broadway performance venue located within New York City's Theatre Row complex on 42nd Street.
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B.
Englert Theatre
Englert Theatre is a historic performing arts venue in downtown Iowa City, Iowa, known for hosting live music, theater, film, and community events.
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C.
Arlington Theatre
Arlington Theatre is a historic movie palace and performing arts venue in downtown Santa Barbara, California, known for its Spanish Colonial Revival architecture and role as a key site for film festivals and cultural events.
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D.
Tower Theater
Tower Theater is a historic Art Deco movie theater in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood, renowned as a cultural hub for Spanish-language and independent cinema.
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E.
Morton Theatre
Morton Theatre is a historic African-American vaudeville theater in Athens, Georgia, renowned as one of the oldest surviving Black-owned and -built vaudeville venues in the United States.
- 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: Erlanger’s Theatre Target entity description: Erlanger’s Theatre was a historic Broadway playhouse in New York City that later became known as the St. James Theatre.
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A.
Lion Theatre
Lion Theatre is an Off-Broadway performance venue located within New York City's Theatre Row complex on 42nd Street.
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B.
Englert Theatre
Englert Theatre is a historic performing arts venue in downtown Iowa City, Iowa, known for hosting live music, theater, film, and community events.
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C.
Arlington Theatre
Arlington Theatre is a historic movie palace and performing arts venue in downtown Santa Barbara, California, known for its Spanish Colonial Revival architecture and role as a key site for film festivals and cultural events.
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D.
Tower Theater
Tower Theater is a historic Art Deco movie theater in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood, renowned as a cultural hub for Spanish-language and independent cinema.
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E.
Morton Theatre
Morton Theatre is a historic African-American vaudeville theater in Athens, Georgia, renowned as one of the oldest surviving Black-owned and -built vaudeville venues in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway theatre
ⓘ
historic building ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Beaux-Arts ⓘ |
| borough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| city | New York City ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| district | Midtown Manhattan ⓘ |
| function | playhouse ⓘ |
| genre | legitimate theatre ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor | St. James Theatre ⓘ |
| laterKnownAs | St. James Theatre ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ Broadway Theatre District ⓘ
surface form:
Theatre District, Manhattan
|
| locatedNear |
Broadhurst Theatre
ⓘ
Helen Hayes Theatre ⓘ John Golden Theatre ⓘ Majestic Theatre ⓘ Minskoff Theatre ⓘ Shubert Theatre (Broadway) ⓘ
surface form:
Shubert Theatre
|
| locatedOn | West 44th Street ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Abraham L. Erlanger ⓘ |
| notableFor | Broadway productions ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1927 ⓘ |
| owner | A. L. Erlanger ⓘ |
| partOf |
Broadway Theatre District
ⓘ
surface form:
Broadway theatre district
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| renamedAs | St. James Theatre ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| streetNumber | 246 West 44th Street ⓘ |
| use | live theatre ⓘ |
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: Erlanger’s Theatre Description of subject: Erlanger’s Theatre was a historic Broadway playhouse in New York City that later became known as the St. James Theatre.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Erlanger Theatre