The Lifespan of a Fact (stage play)
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The Lifespan of a Fact is a Broadway stage play adapted from the nonfiction book by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal that explores the tension between factual accuracy and artistic truth in journalism.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Lifespan of a Fact (book) | 1 |
| The Lifespan of a Fact (stage play) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4423326 — 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: The Lifespan of a Fact (stage play) Context triple: [Daniel Radcliffe, notableWork, The Lifespan of a Fact (stage play)]
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A.
A Piece of Monologue
A Piece of Monologue is a short, late-period stage work by Samuel Beckett that presents a solitary speaker delivering fragmented, memory-laden reflections in Beckett’s characteristically minimalist, existential style.
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The Humans (play)
The Humans is a critically acclaimed one-act drama by Stephen Karam that portrays a family’s tense Thanksgiving gathering in a New York City apartment, exploring themes of anxiety, class, and generational conflict.
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C.
The Other Mother
The Other Mother is a biographical work by Victoria Riskin that explores the life and legacy of her mother, the pioneering Hollywood screenwriter and activist Fay Kanin.
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D.
A Delicate Balance
A Delicate Balance is a Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Edward Albee that explores the fragility of family relationships and the existential anxieties underlying upper-middle-class life.
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E.
The Laramie Project
The Laramie Project is a play (and later film) that dramatizes the community response to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming, exploring themes of hate crime, homophobia, and social justice.
- 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: The Lifespan of a Fact (stage play) Target entity description: The Lifespan of a Fact is a Broadway stage play adapted from the nonfiction book by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal that explores the tension between factual accuracy and artistic truth in journalism.
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A.
A Piece of Monologue
A Piece of Monologue is a short, late-period stage work by Samuel Beckett that presents a solitary speaker delivering fragmented, memory-laden reflections in Beckett’s characteristically minimalist, existential style.
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B.
The Humans (play)
The Humans is a critically acclaimed one-act drama by Stephen Karam that portrays a family’s tense Thanksgiving gathering in a New York City apartment, exploring themes of anxiety, class, and generational conflict.
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C.
The Other Mother
The Other Mother is a biographical work by Victoria Riskin that explores the life and legacy of her mother, the pioneering Hollywood screenwriter and activist Fay Kanin.
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D.
A Delicate Balance
A Delicate Balance is a Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Edward Albee that explores the fragility of family relationships and the existential anxieties underlying upper-middle-class life.
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E.
The Laramie Project
The Laramie Project is a play (and later film) that dramatizes the community response to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming, exploring themes of hate crime, homophobia, and social justice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway play
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stage play ⓘ |
| adaptationOfGenre | nonfiction ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Lifespan of a Fact (book)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Lifespan of a Fact (stage play)
|
| basedOnWorkBy |
Jim Fingal
ⓘ
John D’Agata ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| explores |
boundaries of narrative nonfiction
ⓘ
responsibility of writers to facts ⓘ role of editors in truth-telling ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Emily
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Jim ⓘ John ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | live theatre ⓘ |
| openedOnBroadway | 2018 ⓘ |
| premiereBroadway | Yes ⓘ |
| premiereCity | New York City ⓘ |
| premiereLocation | Studio 54 ⓘ |
| producer | Roundabout Theatre Company ⓘ |
| setting | magazine publishing world ⓘ |
| sourceMaterialType | nonfiction book ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
ethics in publishing
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fact-checking ⓘ journalism ⓘ truth in nonfiction ⓘ |
| theme |
conflict between writer and fact-checker
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tension between factual accuracy and artistic truth ⓘ |
| workType | theatrical adaptation ⓘ |
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: The Lifespan of a Fact (stage play) Description of subject: The Lifespan of a Fact is a Broadway stage play adapted from the nonfiction book by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal that explores the tension between factual accuracy and artistic truth in journalism.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Lifespan of a Fact (stage play)