Henry Krieger
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Henry Krieger is an American composer best known for his work on Broadway musicals, particularly the hit show "Dreamgirls."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry Krieger canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1225893 — 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: Henry Krieger Context triple: [Dreamgirls, composer, Henry Krieger]
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A.
Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Schwartz is an American composer and lyricist renowned for his work in musical theatre and film, including the scores and songs for productions such as "Wicked," "Godspell," and Disney's "Pocahontas" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."
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B.
Marc Shaiman
Marc Shaiman is an American composer, lyricist, and arranger best known for his work on film scores and Broadway musicals, including the music for "Mary Poppins Returns."
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C.
Tommy Tune
Tommy Tune is an acclaimed American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director best known for his towering presence on Broadway and his multiple Tony Award–winning work in musical theatre.
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D.
Jerry Herman
Jerry Herman was an American composer and lyricist best known for his hit Broadway musicals, including Hello, Dolly! and Mame.
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E.
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim was a groundbreaking American composer and lyricist renowned for revolutionizing musical theatre with complex characters, sophisticated lyrics, and innovative works such as "Sweeney Todd," "Company," and "Into the Woods."
- 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: Henry Krieger Target entity description: Henry Krieger is an American composer best known for his work on Broadway musicals, particularly the hit show "Dreamgirls."
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A.
Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Schwartz is an American composer and lyricist renowned for his work in musical theatre and film, including the scores and songs for productions such as "Wicked," "Godspell," and Disney's "Pocahontas" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."
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B.
Marc Shaiman
Marc Shaiman is an American composer, lyricist, and arranger best known for his work on film scores and Broadway musicals, including the music for "Mary Poppins Returns."
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C.
Tommy Tune
Tommy Tune is an acclaimed American actor, dancer, choreographer, and director best known for his towering presence on Broadway and his multiple Tony Award–winning work in musical theatre.
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D.
Jerry Herman
Jerry Herman was an American composer and lyricist best known for his hit Broadway musicals, including Hello, Dolly! and Mame.
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E.
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim was a groundbreaking American composer and lyricist renowned for revolutionizing musical theatre with complex characters, sophisticated lyrics, and innovative works such as "Sweeney Todd," "Company," and "Into the Woods."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway composer
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composer ⓘ human ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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21st century ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award nomination
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Grammy Award nomination ⓘ Tony Award ⓘ
surface form:
Tony Award nomination
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| basedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creativeWorkGenre | Broadway musical ⓘ |
| familyName | Krieger ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Broadway theater
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surface form:
Broadway musicals
musical theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
musical theatre
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show tunes ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry ⓘ |
| hasCollaboratedWith |
Bill Russell
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Robert Lorick ⓘ Tom Eyen ⓘ |
| hasMusicalRole |
composer of film adaptations of musicals
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composer of stage scores ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
American popular music
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rhythm and blues ⓘ soul music ⓘ |
| knownFor |
composing music for Broadway musicals
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composing the score for Dreamgirls ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary musical theatre ⓘ |
| name | Henry Krieger self-link ⓘ |
| notableSong |
And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
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I Am Changing ⓘ One Night Only ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dreamgirls
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Dreamgirls (1981 Broadway musical) ⓘ
surface form:
Dreamgirls (Broadway musical)
Dreamgirls (2006 film soundtrack) ⓘ
surface form:
Dreamgirls (film adaptation songs)
Side Show ⓘ Side Show (Broadway musical) ⓘ The Tap Dance Kid ⓘ The Tap Dance Kid (Broadway musical) ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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lyricist ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Henry Krieger Description of subject: Henry Krieger is an American composer best known for his work on Broadway musicals, particularly the hit show "Dreamgirls."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.