Howard Lindsay
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Howard Lindsay was an American playwright, librettist, and actor best known for his prolific Broadway collaborations, including co-writing the book for the musical "The Sound of Music."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Howard Lindsay canonical | 24 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2007561 — 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: Howard Lindsay Context triple: [Swing Time, screenwriter, Howard Lindsay]
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A.
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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B.
Rex Matheson
Rex Matheson is a CIA agent and central protagonist introduced in the science fiction television series "Torchwood: Miracle Day."
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C.
Harry Warren
Harry Warren was a prolific American composer best known for his popular film and Broadway songs, including numerous Hollywood standards from the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Byron Haskin
Byron Haskin was an American cinematographer and film director best known for his pioneering special effects work and for directing the 1953 science fiction classic "The War of the Worlds."
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E.
Clarence Wilson
Clarence Wilson was an American character actor of the early 20th century, known for his frequent portrayals of stern or officious authority figures in numerous Hollywood films.
- 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: Howard Lindsay Target entity description: Howard Lindsay was an American playwright, librettist, and actor best known for his prolific Broadway collaborations, including co-writing the book for the musical "The Sound of Music."
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A.
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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B.
Rex Matheson
Rex Matheson is a CIA agent and central protagonist introduced in the science fiction television series "Torchwood: Miracle Day."
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C.
Harry Warren
Harry Warren was a prolific American composer best known for his popular film and Broadway songs, including numerous Hollywood standards from the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Byron Haskin
Byron Haskin was an American cinematographer and film director best known for his pioneering special effects work and for directing the 1953 science fiction classic "The War of the Worlds."
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E.
Clarence Wilson
Clarence Wilson was an American character actor of the early 20th century, known for his frequent portrayals of stern or officious authority figures in numerous Hollywood films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
ⓘ
librettist ⓘ person ⓘ playwright ⓘ |
| activeIn | 20th-century American theatre ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
ⓘ
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical ⓘ
surface form:
Tony Award for Best Musical (as book writer for The Sound of Music)
|
| awardReceivedFor |
State of the Union (play)
ⓘ
surface form:
State of the Union (Pulitzer Prize for Drama)
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Broadway production
ⓘ
drama ⓘ musical theatre book writing ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
musical theatre ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| hasBroadwayCredit |
Call Me Madam
ⓘ
surface form:
Call Me Madam (original Broadway production)
Life with Father (original Broadway production) ⓘ State of the Union (play) ⓘ
surface form:
State of the Union (original Broadway production)
The Sound of Music ⓘ
surface form:
The Sound of Music (original Broadway production)
|
| influenced | American musical theatre book writing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | playwriting duo Lindsay and Crouse ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration |
collaborations with Irving Berlin
ⓘ
collaborations with Rodgers and Hammerstein ⓘ collaborations with Russel Crouse ⓘ |
| notableRole | actor in early Broadway productions ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Slight Case of Murder
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surface form:
A Slight Case of Murder (play adaptation)
Arsenic and Old Lace (play) ⓘ
surface form:
Arsenic and Old Lace (stage direction/production association)
Call Me Madam ⓘ
surface form:
Call Me Madam (book for the musical)
Happy Hunting (book for the musical) ⓘ Life with Father ⓘ
surface form:
Life with Father (play)
Life with Mother (play) ⓘ Mr. President (book for the musical) ⓘ Remains to Be Seen (play) ⓘ State of the Union (play) ⓘ Tall Story (play adaptation) ⓘ The Great Sebastian ⓘ
surface form:
The Great Sebastians (play)
The Prescott Proposals (play) ⓘ The Sound of Music ⓘ
surface form:
The Sound of Music (book for the musical)
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| notedFor |
co-writing the book for The Sound of Music
ⓘ
prolific Broadway collaborations ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
librettist ⓘ playwright ⓘ producer ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| partnerInWork | Russel Crouse ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Broadway
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New York City ⓘ |
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: Howard Lindsay Description of subject: Howard Lindsay was an American playwright, librettist, and actor best known for his prolific Broadway collaborations, including co-writing the book for the musical "The Sound of Music."
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Russell Crouse
subject surface form:
Lindsay and Crouse family
subject surface form:
Russel Crouse
subject surface form:
Lindsay Crouse
subject surface form:
Captain Georg von Trapp (The Sound of Music)