Derek Klena
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Derek Klena is an American stage and screen actor best known for his leading roles in contemporary Broadway musicals such as Anastasia and Jagged Little Pill.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Derek Klena canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5893034 — 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: Derek Klena Context triple: [Anastasia, notablePerformer, Derek Klena]
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A.
Matthew Morrison
Matthew Morrison is an American actor and singer best known for playing teacher Will Schuester on the television series "Glee."
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B.
Jeff Freeman
Jeff Freeman is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood comedies, including serving as the editor of the movie "Ted 2."
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C.
Dustin Milligan
Dustin Milligan is a Canadian actor best known for his roles in the TV series 90210 and the comedy Schitt's Creek.
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D.
Troy Kinney
Troy Kinney was an American etcher, illustrator, and author known for his detailed prints and artworks, particularly those depicting dance and theatrical subjects.
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E.
John Alvin
John Alvin was an American film and television actor active in the mid-20th century, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood productions.
- 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: Derek Klena Target entity description: Derek Klena is an American stage and screen actor best known for his leading roles in contemporary Broadway musicals such as Anastasia and Jagged Little Pill.
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A.
Matthew Morrison
Matthew Morrison is an American actor and singer best known for playing teacher Will Schuester on the television series "Glee."
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B.
Jeff Freeman
Jeff Freeman is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood comedies, including serving as the editor of the movie "Ted 2."
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C.
Dustin Milligan
Dustin Milligan is a Canadian actor best known for his roles in the TV series 90210 and the comedy Schitt's Creek.
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D.
Troy Kinney
Troy Kinney was an American etcher, illustrator, and author known for his detailed prints and artworks, particularly those depicting dance and theatrical subjects.
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E.
John Alvin
John Alvin was an American film and television actor active in the mid-20th century, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway actor
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| awardNominationFor | Jagged Little Pill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1991-10-03 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | UCLA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Klena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | musical theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | Derek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.derekklena.com/ ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Derek Klena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAppearance |
Pretty Little Liars (television series)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (television series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Dmitry in Anastasia on Broadway
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Eddie Birdlace in Dogfight (Off-Broadway) NERFINISHED ⓘ Fiyero in Wicked on Broadway ⓘ Nick Healy in Jagged Little Pill on Broadway NERFINISHED ⓘ Tommy in Carrie (Off-Broadway revival) ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Anastasia
NERFINISHED
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Bridges of Madison County NERFINISHED ⓘ Carrie NERFINISHED ⓘ Dogfight NERFINISHED ⓘ Jagged Little Pill NERFINISHED ⓘ Pretty Little Liars NERFINISHED ⓘ The Code NERFINISHED ⓘ Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt NERFINISHED ⓘ Wicked NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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singer ⓘ |
| performedIn |
Broadway
NERFINISHED
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Off-Broadway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles County, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Elycia Scriven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theatricalDebut | Carrie (Off-Broadway revival) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearsActive |
2010s
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2020s ⓘ |
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: Derek Klena Description of subject: Derek Klena is an American stage and screen actor best known for his leading roles in contemporary Broadway musicals such as Anastasia and Jagged Little Pill.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Anastasia