David Cromer
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David Cromer is an American director and actor known for his acclaimed work in theater, including innovative stage productions and performances on and off Broadway.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Cromer canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3051665 — 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: David Cromer Context triple: [A Raisin in the Sun (2014 Broadway revival), starred, David Cromer]
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David Seidler
David Seidler is a British-American screenwriter best known for writing the Academy Award-winning screenplay for the historical drama film "The King’s Speech."
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B.
John Hull
John Hull was a prominent 17th-century Boston merchant, silversmith, and colonial official best known for serving as the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s mintmaster.
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C.
Grant Heslov
Grant Heslov is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his frequent collaborations with George Clooney on acclaimed films such as "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "Argo."
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D.
Colin Kroll
Colin Kroll was an American technology entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the short-form video platform Vine and the mobile trivia game HQ Trivia.
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E.
Ben Seresin
Ben Seresin is a New Zealand-born cinematographer known for his work on large-scale action and blockbuster films such as Godzilla vs. Kong, World War Z, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
- 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: David Cromer Target entity description: David Cromer is an American director and actor known for his acclaimed work in theater, including innovative stage productions and performances on and off Broadway.
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A.
David Seidler
David Seidler is a British-American screenwriter best known for writing the Academy Award-winning screenplay for the historical drama film "The King’s Speech."
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B.
John Hull
John Hull was a prominent 17th-century Boston merchant, silversmith, and colonial official best known for serving as the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s mintmaster.
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C.
Grant Heslov
Grant Heslov is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his frequent collaborations with George Clooney on acclaimed films such as "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "Argo."
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D.
Colin Kroll
Colin Kroll was an American technology entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the short-form video platform Vine and the mobile trivia game HQ Trivia.
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E.
Ben Seresin
Ben Seresin is a New Zealand-born cinematographer known for his work on large-scale action and blockbuster films such as Godzilla vs. Kong, World War Z, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway director
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human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Broadway theater
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surface form:
Broadway theatre
Off-Broadway theatre ⓘ regional theatre in the United States ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Drama Desk Award
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Lucille Lortel Award ⓘ MacArthur Fellowship ⓘ Obie Award ⓘ Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
acting
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stage directing ⓘ |
| genre | theatre ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
drama
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musical theatre ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative stage direction
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intimate, naturalistic productions ⓘ reimagining classic plays ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | directing the original Broadway production of The Band's Visit ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Performer in The Sound Inside (Broadway)
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Performer in The Waverly Gallery (Broadway) ⓘ Our Town (play) ⓘ
surface form:
Stage Manager in Our Town (Barrow Street Theatre)
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| notableWork |
A Case for the Existence of God (Off-Broadway production)
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Adding Machine: A Musical ⓘ Brighton Beach Memoirs (Broadway revival) ⓘ Our Town (play) ⓘ
surface form:
Our Town (Barrow Street Theatre production)
Our Town (play) ⓘ
surface form:
Our Town (Off-Broadway production)
The Band’s Visit (Broadway) ⓘ
surface form:
The Band's Visit (Broadway production)
The Band’s Visit ⓘ
surface form:
The Band's Visit (musical)
The Effect (Off-Broadway production) ⓘ The House of Blue Leaves (Broadway revival) ⓘ The Price (Broadway revival) ⓘ The Sound Inside (Broadway production) ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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stage director ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Chicago
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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: David Cromer Description of subject: David Cromer is an American director and actor known for his acclaimed work in theater, including innovative stage productions and performances on and off Broadway.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.