musical play "The Black Rider"
E433029
"The Black Rider" is an avant-garde musical play blending dark fairy-tale themes with experimental music, created in collaboration by Tom Waits, William S. Burroughs, and Robert Wilson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| musical play "The Black Rider" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4358848 — 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: musical play "The Black Rider" Context triple: [Tom Waits, workFeaturedIn, musical play "The Black Rider"]
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A.
Muziektheater
Muziektheater is a major opera and music theatre venue in Amsterdam, known as the home of Dutch National Opera and Dutch National Ballet.
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B.
the Nightman Cometh musical
The Nightman Cometh musical is a cult-favorite rock opera episode of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," featuring Charlie Kelly’s bizarre stage production about the Nightman and Dayman.
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C.
Mahagonny Songspiel
Mahagonny Songspiel is a short 1927 political song-play by Bertolt Brecht (with music by Kurt Weill) that satirically portrays a hedonistic, capitalist utopia called Mahagonny.
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D.
Musikalisches Opfer
Musikalisches Opfer is a collection of complex contrapuntal compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, renowned for its intricate canons and fugues based on a theme given by Frederick the Great.
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E.
Scenes from Goethe’s Faust
Scenes from Goethe’s Faust is a large-scale choral-orchestral work by Robert Schumann that sets key episodes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s dramatic poem "Faust" to music.
- 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: musical play "The Black Rider" Target entity description: "The Black Rider" is an avant-garde musical play blending dark fairy-tale themes with experimental music, created in collaboration by Tom Waits, William S. Burroughs, and Robert Wilson.
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A.
Muziektheater
Muziektheater is a major opera and music theatre venue in Amsterdam, known as the home of Dutch National Opera and Dutch National Ballet.
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B.
the Nightman Cometh musical
The Nightman Cometh musical is a cult-favorite rock opera episode of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," featuring Charlie Kelly’s bizarre stage production about the Nightman and Dayman.
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C.
Mahagonny Songspiel
Mahagonny Songspiel is a short 1927 political song-play by Bertolt Brecht (with music by Kurt Weill) that satirically portrays a hedonistic, capitalist utopia called Mahagonny.
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D.
Musikalisches Opfer
Musikalisches Opfer is a collection of complex contrapuntal compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, renowned for its intricate canons and fugues based on a theme given by Frederick the Great.
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E.
Scenes from Goethe’s Faust
Scenes from Goethe’s Faust is a large-scale choral-orchestral work by Robert Schumann that sets key episodes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s dramatic poem "Faust" to music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
avant-garde theatre work
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musical play ⓘ stage musical ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Der Freischütz
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German folk legend of the Freischütz ⓘ |
| bookBy | William S. Burroughs ⓘ |
| composer | Tom Waits ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| creator |
Robert Wilson
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Tom Waits ⓘ William S. Burroughs ⓘ |
| director | Robert Wilson ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Käthchen
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Pegleg ⓘ Wilhelm ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1990-03-31 ⓘ |
| genre |
avant-garde
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dark fantasy ⓘ experimental theatre ⓘ gothic ⓘ musical theatre ⓘ |
| hasMotif |
forests
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hunting ⓘ magic bullets ⓘ |
| hasRecording | The Black Rider (Tom Waits album) ⓘ |
| hasSubtitle | The Casting of the Magic Bullets ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lightingDesigner | Robert Wilson ⓘ |
| lyricist | Tom Waits ⓘ |
| musicStyle |
avant-garde rock
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blues ⓘ cabaret ⓘ experimental ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blending dark fairy-tale themes with experimental music
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collaboration between Tom Waits, William S. Burroughs, and Robert Wilson ⓘ |
| notableProduction |
1993 London production
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1998 San Francisco production ⓘ 2004 Sydney production ⓘ |
| period | late 20th century theatre ⓘ |
| premiereLocation | Thalia Theater, Hamburg ⓘ |
| producedBy | Thalia Theater, Hamburg ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Tom Waits ⓘ |
| theme |
addiction
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fate ⓘ pact with the devil ⓘ temptation ⓘ |
| title | The Black Rider ⓘ |
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Subject: musical play "The Black Rider" Description of subject: "The Black Rider" is an avant-garde musical play blending dark fairy-tale themes with experimental music, created in collaboration by Tom Waits, William S. Burroughs, and Robert Wilson.
Referenced by (1)
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