Will Swenson
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Will Swenson is an American actor and singer best known for his work in musical theatre, including his Tony-nominated performance in the Broadway revival of "Hair."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Will Swenson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5505942 — 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: Will Swenson Context triple: [Audra McDonald, spouse, Will Swenson]
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A.
Danny Wagner
Danny Wagner is the drummer for the American rock band Greta Van Fleet.
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B.
Jesse Andrews
Jesse Andrews is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for writing the young adult novel "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" and co-writing its film adaptation.
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C.
Zahn McClarnon
Zahn McClarnon is a Native American actor known for his intense, nuanced performances in television series such as "Longmire," "Westworld," "Reservation Dogs," and Marvel's "Hawkeye."
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D.
Jordan Roberts
Jordan Roberts is a fictional character from the American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," which centers on the power struggles and personal dramas surrounding a California wine dynasty.
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E.
Jordan Roberts
Jordan Roberts is an American screenwriter and filmmaker best known for co-writing the animated superhero film "Big Hero 6."
- 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: Will Swenson Target entity description: Will Swenson is an American actor and singer best known for his work in musical theatre, including his Tony-nominated performance in the Broadway revival of "Hair."
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A.
Danny Wagner
Danny Wagner is the drummer for the American rock band Greta Van Fleet.
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B.
Jesse Andrews
Jesse Andrews is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for writing the young adult novel "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" and co-writing its film adaptation.
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C.
Zahn McClarnon
Zahn McClarnon is a Native American actor known for his intense, nuanced performances in television series such as "Longmire," "Westworld," "Reservation Dogs," and Marvel's "Hawkeye."
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D.
Jordan Roberts
Jordan Roberts is a fictional character from the American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," which centers on the power struggles and personal dramas surrounding a California wine dynasty.
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E.
Jordan Roberts
Jordan Roberts is an American screenwriter and filmmaker best known for co-writing the animated superhero film "Big Hero 6."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
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human ⓘ musical theatre actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeInField |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| awardNomination | Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardNominationForWork | Hair (2009 Broadway revival) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1972-10-26 ⓘ |
| familyName | Swenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | musical theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | Will ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Will Swenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical (Broadway)
NERFINISHED
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Hair (2009 Broadway revival) NERFINISHED ⓘ Les Misérables (Broadway revival) NERFINISHED ⓘ Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Broadway) NERFINISHED ⓘ Waitress (Broadway) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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singer ⓘ stage director ⓘ |
| performedIn |
A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical (Broadway)
NERFINISHED
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Hair (2009 Broadway revival) NERFINISHED ⓘ Les Misérables (2014 Broadway revival) NERFINISHED ⓘ Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Broadway production) NERFINISHED ⓘ Sons of Provo (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The R.M. (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Singles Ward (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Waitress (Broadway production) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Provo, Utah, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedRole |
Berger in Hair (Broadway revival)
NERFINISHED
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Earl in Waitress (Broadway) NERFINISHED ⓘ Javert in Les Misérables (Broadway revival) ⓘ Neil Diamond – Then in A Beautiful Noise (Broadway) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tick/Mitzi in Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Broadway) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Amy Westerby
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Audra McDonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (former member) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Amy Westerby
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Audra McDonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1990s–present ⓘ |
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: Will Swenson Description of subject: Will Swenson is an American actor and singer best known for his work in musical theatre, including his Tony-nominated performance in the Broadway revival of "Hair."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.