James Lapine
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James Lapine is an American playwright and director best known for his long-running collaboration with composer Stephen Sondheim on acclaimed musicals such as "Into the Woods" and "Sunday in the Park with George."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Lapine canonical | 83 |
| playwright James Lapine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1107986 — 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: James Lapine Context triple: [Into the Woods (2014 film), screenwriter, James Lapine]
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Agnes de Mille
Agnes de Mille was an influential American choreographer and dancer renowned for integrating character-driven, narrative choreography into mid-20th-century Broadway and ballet.
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Harold Prince
Harold Prince was a legendary American theatre producer and director renowned for his work on landmark Broadway musicals such as "West Side Story," "Fiddler on the Roof," and "The Phantom of the Opera."
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Nicholas Hytner
Nicholas Hytner is a prominent British theatre and film director, best known as a former artistic director of London’s National Theatre and for acclaimed productions on both stage and screen.
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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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Stanley Donen
Stanley Donen was an American film director and choreographer best known for co-directing classic Hollywood musicals such as "Singin' in the Rain" and "On the Town."
- 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: James Lapine Target entity description: James Lapine is an American playwright and director best known for his long-running collaboration with composer Stephen Sondheim on acclaimed musicals such as "Into the Woods" and "Sunday in the Park with George."
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A.
Agnes de Mille
Agnes de Mille was an influential American choreographer and dancer renowned for integrating character-driven, narrative choreography into mid-20th-century Broadway and ballet.
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B.
Harold Prince
Harold Prince was a legendary American theatre producer and director renowned for his work on landmark Broadway musicals such as "West Side Story," "Fiddler on the Roof," and "The Phantom of the Opera."
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C.
Nicholas Hytner
Nicholas Hytner is a prominent British theatre and film director, best known as a former artistic director of London’s National Theatre and for acclaimed productions on both stage and screen.
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D.
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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E.
Stanley Donen
Stanley Donen was an American film director and choreographer best known for co-directing classic Hollywood musicals such as "Singin' in the Rain" and "On the Town."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: James Lapine Description of subject: James Lapine is an American playwright and director best known for his long-running collaboration with composer Stephen Sondheim on acclaimed musicals such as "Into the Woods" and "Sunday in the Park with George."
Referenced by (84)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Into the Woods
subject linked to:
Act One (Broadway adaptation by James Lapine, source author)
subject linked to:
Act One (Broadway adaptation by James Lapine, source author)
subject linked to:
Act One (Broadway adaptation by James Lapine, source author)
subject linked to:
musical "Sunday in the Park with George" (indirectly via the painting)
subject linked to:
musical "Sunday in the Park with George" (indirectly via the painting)
subject linked to:
"Moments in the Woods"
subject linked to:
"Moments in the Woods"
subject linked to:
“Last Midnight”