Rick Steiner
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Rick Steiner was a prominent Broadway theatre producer known for backing numerous successful musicals and plays.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rick Steiner canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4864043 — 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: Rick Steiner Context triple: [The Secret Garden (1991 Broadway production), producedBy, Rick Steiner]
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A.
Eric Steelberg
Eric Steelberg is an American cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as "Juno," "Up in the Air," and "500 Days of Summer."
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B.
Jack Stapp
Jack Stapp was an influential American country music executive and publisher who played a key role in shaping Nashville’s music industry and co-founding major industry institutions.
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C.
Dan Stark
Dan Stark is a fictional, rule-bending veteran detective from the TV series "The Good Guys," portrayed by actor Bradley Whitford.
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D.
Chris Rodstrom
Chris Rodstrom is a former psychologist best known as the longtime wife of Hall of Fame NBA coach and executive Pat Riley.
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E.
Stephen Rojack
Stephen Rojack is the psychologically tormented, war-hero-turned-TV-personality at the center of Norman Mailer’s novel "An American Dream," whose violent actions and moral unraveling drive the book’s exploration of guilt, power, and existential crisis.
- 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: Rick Steiner Target entity description: Rick Steiner was a prominent Broadway theatre producer known for backing numerous successful musicals and plays.
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A.
Eric Steelberg
Eric Steelberg is an American cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as "Juno," "Up in the Air," and "500 Days of Summer."
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B.
Jack Stapp
Jack Stapp was an influential American country music executive and publisher who played a key role in shaping Nashville’s music industry and co-founding major industry institutions.
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C.
Dan Stark
Dan Stark is a fictional, rule-bending veteran detective from the TV series "The Good Guys," portrayed by actor Bradley Whitford.
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D.
Chris Rodstrom
Chris Rodstrom is a former psychologist best known as the longtime wife of Hall of Fame NBA coach and executive Pat Riley.
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E.
Stephen Rojack
Stephen Rojack is the psychologically tormented, war-hero-turned-TV-personality at the center of Norman Mailer’s novel "An American Dream," whose violent actions and moral unraveling drive the book’s exploration of guilt, power, and existential crisis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway producer
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theatre producer ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
early 21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Tony Award
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Tony Award for Best Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
commercial theatre
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entertainment industry ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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musical theatre ⓘ |
| knownFor |
backing commercially successful Broadway shows
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producing long‑running musicals ⓘ |
| notableAwardWork |
Hairspray
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Producers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
producing Broadway musicals
ⓘ
producing Broadway plays ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Big River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hairspray NERFINISHED ⓘ Hairspray (touring productions) NERFINISHED ⓘ Into the Woods NERFINISHED ⓘ Jelly’s Last Jam NERFINISHED ⓘ Legally Blonde NERFINISHED ⓘ Smokey Joe’s Cafe NERFINISHED ⓘ The Life NERFINISHED ⓘ The Producers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Producers (touring productions) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wedding Singer NERFINISHED ⓘ Urinetown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
Broadway producer
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real estate investor ⓘ theatre producer ⓘ |
| produced |
Big River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hairspray NERFINISHED ⓘ Into the Woods NERFINISHED ⓘ Jelly’s Last Jam NERFINISHED ⓘ Legally Blonde NERFINISHED ⓘ Smokey Joe’s Cafe NERFINISHED ⓘ The Life NERFINISHED ⓘ The Producers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wedding Singer NERFINISHED ⓘ Urinetown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedIn | Broadway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Rick Steiner Description of subject: Rick Steiner was a prominent Broadway theatre producer known for backing numerous successful musicals and plays.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.