Robert Wilson
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avant-garde artist
performance artist
person
set designer
stage director
theatre director
visual artist
Robert Wilson is an influential American avant-garde theater director and visual artist known for his highly stylized, experimental stage productions and collaborations with prominent composers and performers.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Wilson canonical | 21 |
| American director Robert Wilson | 1 |
| American playwright Robert Wilson | 1 |
| Peter Sellars | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4358837 — 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: Robert Wilson Context triple: [Tom Waits, collaboratedWith, Robert Wilson]
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A.
Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson is an American physicist best known for co-discovering the cosmic microwave background radiation, providing key evidence for the Big Bang theory.
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B.
Mark Lamos
Mark Lamos is an American theater and opera director known for his innovative stagings on Broadway and at major opera companies.
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C.
John Pielmeier
John Pielmeier is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor best known for his stage and screen work on psychological and religious dramas.
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D.
James Lapine
James Lapine is an American playwright and director best known for his long-running collaboration with composer Stephen Sondheim on acclaimed musicals such as "Into the Woods" and "Sunday in the Park with George."
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E.
Jon Jory
Jon Jory is an influential American theatre director, producer, and educator best known for his leadership at Actors Theatre of Louisville and his impact on contemporary regional theatre.
- 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: Robert Wilson Target entity description: Robert Wilson is an influential American avant-garde theater director and visual artist known for his highly stylized, experimental stage productions and collaborations with prominent composers and performers.
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A.
Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson is an American physicist best known for co-discovering the cosmic microwave background radiation, providing key evidence for the Big Bang theory.
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B.
Mark Lamos
Mark Lamos is an American theater and opera director known for his innovative stagings on Broadway and at major opera companies.
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C.
John Pielmeier
John Pielmeier is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor best known for his stage and screen work on psychological and religious dramas.
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D.
James Lapine
James Lapine is an American playwright and director best known for his long-running collaboration with composer Stephen Sondheim on acclaimed musicals such as "Into the Woods" and "Sunday in the Park with George."
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E.
Jon Jory
Jon Jory is an influential American theatre director, producer, and educator best known for his leadership at Actors Theatre of Louisville and his impact on contemporary regional theatre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
avant-garde artist
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performance artist ⓘ person ⓘ set designer ⓘ stage director ⓘ theatre director ⓘ visual artist ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Arvo Pärt
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David Byrne ⓘ Heiner Müller ⓘ Lou Reed ⓘ Lucinda Childs ⓘ Philip Glass ⓘ Tom Waits ⓘ William S. Burroughs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Wilson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
opera
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performance art ⓘ theatre ⓘ visual arts ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| knownFor |
collaborations with composers
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experimental theatre direction ⓘ innovative use of light and space ⓘ large-scale multimedia productions ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
avant-garde theatre
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experimental theatre ⓘ |
| name | Robert Wilson ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Deafman Glance
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Einstein on the Beach ⓘ I La Galigo ⓘ
linked to:
La Galigo epic
Orlando (stage production) ⓘ The Black Rider ⓘ The CIVIL warS ⓘ The Forest ⓘ The Golden Windows ⓘ The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin ⓘ The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud ⓘ The Old Woman ⓘ The Temptation of St. Anthony ⓘ The White Raven ⓘ Woyzeck (stage production) ⓘ
linked to:
Woyzeck
|
| occupation |
playwright
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stage designer ⓘ theatre director ⓘ visual artist ⓘ |
| style |
highly stylized stage imagery
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minimalist visual composition ⓘ nonlinear narrative structures ⓘ precise lighting design ⓘ slow, meditative pacing ⓘ |
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: Robert Wilson Description of subject: Robert Wilson is an influential American avant-garde theater director and visual artist known for his highly stylized, experimental stage productions and collaborations with prominent composers and performers.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Robert Wilson
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Alice
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Alice
subject linked to:
musical play "The Black Rider"
subject linked to:
musical play "The Black Rider"
subject linked to:
musical play "The Black Rider"
subject linked to:
musical play "Alice"
subject linked to:
musical play "Alice"
subject linked to:
musical play "Alice"
linked to: Robert Wilson
linked to: Robert Wilson