La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
E142461
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club is a pioneering off-off-Broadway theater in New York City renowned for nurturing experimental and avant-garde performance and launching the careers of numerous influential playwrights and artists.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club canonical | 16 |
| La MaMa Experimental Theater Club | 1 |
| La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club building | 1 |
| La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Inc. | 1 |
| “La MaMa” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1243207 — 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: La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club Context triple: [Torch Song Trilogy, premiereLocation, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club]
-
A.
League of Resident Theatres
The League of Resident Theatres (LORT) is the largest professional theatre association of its kind in the United States, representing major nonprofit regional theatres and negotiating collective bargaining agreements with theatrical unions.
-
B.
Madison Street Theatre
Madison Street Theatre is a performing arts venue in Oak Park, Illinois, known for hosting theater productions, concerts, and community cultural events.
-
C.
Studio Theatre
Studio Theatre is an intimate performance space located within New York City's Theatre Row complex, known for hosting off-Broadway and independent theatrical productions.
-
D.
Studio Theatre
Studio Theatre is an intimate performance space within the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, used for smaller-scale theatre productions and experimental works.
-
E.
Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School
Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School was a Harlem-based cultural institution founded by Amiri Baraka in 1965 that became a central hub for Black Arts Movement theater, poetry, and political education.
- 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: La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club Target entity description: La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club is a pioneering off-off-Broadway theater in New York City renowned for nurturing experimental and avant-garde performance and launching the careers of numerous influential playwrights and artists.
-
A.
League of Resident Theatres
The League of Resident Theatres (LORT) is the largest professional theatre association of its kind in the United States, representing major nonprofit regional theatres and negotiating collective bargaining agreements with theatrical unions.
-
B.
Madison Street Theatre
Madison Street Theatre is a performing arts venue in Oak Park, Illinois, known for hosting theater productions, concerts, and community cultural events.
-
C.
Studio Theatre
Studio Theatre is an intimate performance space located within New York City's Theatre Row complex, known for hosting off-Broadway and independent theatrical productions.
-
D.
Studio Theatre
Studio Theatre is an intimate performance space within the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, used for smaller-scale theatre productions and experimental works.
-
E.
Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School
Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School was a Harlem-based cultural institution founded by Amiri Baraka in 1965 that became a central hub for Black Arts Movement theater, poetry, and political education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
nonprofit organization
ⓘ
off-off-Broadway theater ⓘ performing arts organization ⓘ theatre company ⓘ |
| artisticFocus |
avant-garde performance
ⓘ
experimental theatre ⓘ new plays ⓘ |
| basedInNeighborhood |
East Village, Manhattan
ⓘ
linked to:
East Village
|
| city | New York City ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| field |
performing arts
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
artist-driven work
ⓘ
experimental staging and forms ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Ellen Stewart ⓘ |
| founder | Ellen Stewart ⓘ |
| hasArtisticDirector | Mia Yoo ⓘ |
| hasAudienceCapacityType | small to mid-size venues ⓘ |
| hasVenue |
The Club
ⓘ
The Ellen Stewart Theatre ⓘ The First Floor Theatre ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.lamama.org ⓘ |
| inception | 1961 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
East Village
ⓘ
Manhattan ⓘ New York City ⓘ |
| mission | to support experimental work by emerging and established artists ⓘ |
| movement | off-off-Broadway ⓘ |
| name | La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club ⓘ |
| notableFor |
launching the careers of influential playwrights and artists
ⓘ
nurturing experimental and avant-garde performance ⓘ role in the off-off-Broadway movement ⓘ |
| originalLocation | East 9th Street, Manhattan ⓘ |
| programs |
international festivals
ⓘ
new work development ⓘ resident artist programs ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | pioneering off-off-Broadway theater ⓘ |
| sector | nonprofit arts ⓘ |
| shortName | La MaMa ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| supports |
actors
ⓘ
designers ⓘ directors ⓘ international artists ⓘ performance artists ⓘ playwrights ⓘ |
| typeOfVenue | black box 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: La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club Description of subject: La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club is a pioneering off-off-Broadway theater in New York City renowned for nurturing experimental and avant-garde performance and launching the careers of numerous influential playwrights and artists.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
linked to: La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
linked to: La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
linked to: La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club