Thomas Meehan
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Thomas Meehan was an American playwright and librettist best known for writing the books for hit Broadway musicals such as Annie, The Producers, and Hairspray.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas Meehan canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3621851 — 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: Thomas Meehan Context triple: [Annie, bookBy, Thomas Meehan]
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A.
John Meehan
John Meehan is the real-life conman and serial predator whose story inspired the podcast and TV series "Dirty John," in which he is portrayed by Eric Bana.
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B.
Edward McDonnell
Edward McDonnell is a film producer known for his work on movies such as the psychological thriller "Insomnia" (2002).
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C.
Brian Moynihan
Brian Moynihan is an American lawyer and businessman who serves as the longtime chairman and chief executive officer of Bank of America.
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D.
Tom Callaghan
Tom Callaghan is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically cited as a prominent bearer of the surname Callaghan.
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E.
Patrick J. Hartnett
Patrick J. Hartnett is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Hartnett, though specific widely known public details about him are not readily available.
- 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: Thomas Meehan Target entity description: Thomas Meehan was an American playwright and librettist best known for writing the books for hit Broadway musicals such as Annie, The Producers, and Hairspray.
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A.
John Meehan
John Meehan is the real-life conman and serial predator whose story inspired the podcast and TV series "Dirty John," in which he is portrayed by Eric Bana.
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B.
Edward McDonnell
Edward McDonnell is a film producer known for his work on movies such as the psychological thriller "Insomnia" (2002).
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C.
Brian Moynihan
Brian Moynihan is an American lawyer and businessman who serves as the longtime chairman and chief executive officer of Bank of America.
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D.
Tom Callaghan
Tom Callaghan is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically cited as a prominent bearer of the surname Callaghan.
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E.
Patrick J. Hartnett
Patrick J. Hartnett is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Hartnett, though specific widely known public details about him are not readily available.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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librettist ⓘ playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Annie
NERFINISHED
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Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Hairspray NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for The Producers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWork |
Annie (comic strip "Little Orphan Annie")
NERFINISHED
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Cry-Baby (1990 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Elf (2003 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Hairspray (1988 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Producers (1967 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Young Frankenstein (1974 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWroteWith |
Bob Martin
NERFINISHED
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Charles Strouse NERFINISHED ⓘ David Yazbek NERFINISHED ⓘ Harvey Fierstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Marc Shaiman NERFINISHED ⓘ Mark O'Donnell NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin Charnin NERFINISHED ⓘ Mel Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Wittman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Meehan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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musical theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Thomas Meehan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAward | Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Annie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Annie Warbucks NERFINISHED ⓘ Cry-Baby NERFINISHED ⓘ Elf the Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ Hairspray NERFINISHED ⓘ I Remember Mama (musical adaptation) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Producers NERFINISHED ⓘ Young Frankenstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
librettist
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playwright ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| wroteLibrettoFor |
Annie
NERFINISHED
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Cry-Baby NERFINISHED ⓘ Elf the Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ Hairspray NERFINISHED ⓘ The Producers NERFINISHED ⓘ Young Frankenstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Thomas Meehan Description of subject: Thomas Meehan was an American playwright and librettist best known for writing the books for hit Broadway musicals such as Annie, The Producers, and Hairspray.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.