Martin Richards
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Martin Richards was an American film and theater producer best known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "Chicago" and various Broadway productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Martin Richards canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2326328 — 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: Martin Richards Context triple: [The Boys from Brazil (1978 film), producer, Martin Richards]
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A.
Martin Richards
Martin Richards is a British computer scientist best known for creating the BCPL programming language, which influenced the development of B and C.
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B.
Ralph Tomlinson
Ralph Tomlinson was an 18th-century English lawyer and poet best known for writing the original lyrics to the popular drinking song "To Anacreon in Heaven," whose melody later became the tune of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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C.
Fernando J. Corbató
Fernando J. Corbató was an American computer scientist best known for pioneering time-sharing operating systems and helping to lay the foundations of modern interactive computing.
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D.
Gary Kildall
Gary Kildall was an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a pioneer of microcomputer operating systems and the founder of Digital Research.
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E.
John Simon Ritchie
John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious, was the bassist of the pioneering English punk rock band the Sex Pistols and an icon of the 1970s punk movement.
- 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: Martin Richards Target entity description: Martin Richards was an American film and theater producer best known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "Chicago" and various Broadway productions.
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A.
Martin Richards
Martin Richards is a British computer scientist best known for creating the BCPL programming language, which influenced the development of B and C.
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B.
Ralph Tomlinson
Ralph Tomlinson was an 18th-century English lawyer and poet best known for writing the original lyrics to the popular drinking song "To Anacreon in Heaven," whose melody later became the tune of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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C.
Fernando J. Corbató
Fernando J. Corbató was an American computer scientist best known for pioneering time-sharing operating systems and helping to lay the foundations of modern interactive computing.
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D.
Gary Kildall
Gary Kildall was an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a pioneer of microcomputer operating systems and the founder of Digital Research.
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E.
John Simon Ritchie
John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious, was the bassist of the pioneering English punk rock band the Sex Pistols and an icon of the 1970s punk movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway producer
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ theatre producer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Picture
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Tony Award for Best Musical ⓘ Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical ⓘ |
| basedIn | Broadway ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | liver disease ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1932-03-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2012-11-26 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | New York University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film production
ⓘ
theatre production ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
musical theatre ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAward | Oscar for producing Chicago ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Chicago (2002 film)
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Chicago (2002 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago (2002 film, co-producer with Miramax)
Chicago (film musical) ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago (musical, film adaptation producer)
Fort Apache, The Bronx ⓘ
surface form:
Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981 film, producer)
Grand Hotel (play) ⓘ
surface form:
Grand Hotel (Broadway musical, producer)
La Cage aux Folles ⓘ
surface form:
La Cage aux Folles (Broadway musical, producer)
On the Twentieth Century ⓘ
surface form:
On the Twentieth Century (Broadway musical)
Sweeney Todd (stage production) ⓘ
surface form:
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Broadway revival, 1979 co-producer)
The Boys from Brazil (1978 film) ⓘ
surface form:
The Boys from Brazil (1978 film, producer)
The Boy from Oz ⓘ
surface form:
The Boys from Oz (Broadway, producer)
The Life (1997 Broadway musical, producer) ⓘ The Life (Broadway musical) ⓘ The Morning After ⓘ
surface form:
The Morning After (1986 film, producer)
The Norman Conquests (Broadway revival, producer) ⓘ The Shining (1980 film) ⓘ
surface form:
The Shining (1980 film, executive producer)
The Will Rogers Follies ⓘ
surface form:
The Will Rogers Follies (Broadway musical, producer)
|
| occupation |
Broadway producer
ⓘ
film producer ⓘ theatre producer ⓘ |
| partner | Scott Fagan ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
The Bronx
ⓘ
surface form:
The Bronx, New York City
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| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Lea Johnson ⓘ |
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: Martin Richards Description of subject: Martin Richards was an American film and theater producer best known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "Chicago" and various Broadway productions.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Chicago (film)