The Substance of Fire
E651348
The Substance of Fire is a 1991 stage play by Jon Robin Baitz, later adapted into a film, that explores family conflict, Holocaust trauma, and the decline of a once-powerful New York publishing house.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Substance of Fire canonical | 6 |
| The Substance of Fire (film) | 2 |
| Substance of Fire | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7259219 — 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 Substance of Fire Context triple: [Ron Rifkin, notableWork, The Substance of Fire]
-
A.
The Fire
The Fire is a Major League Soccer club based in Chicago, Illinois, known formally as Chicago Fire FC.
-
B.
The Fire Raisers
The Fire Raisers is an English title for Max Frisch’s darkly comic play about complacency and the rise of fascism, in which a seemingly respectable citizen naively harbors arsonists in his home.
-
C.
Black Fire
Black Fire is a landmark 1968 anthology that showcases a wide range of Black Arts Movement poetry, fiction, and essays by African American writers.
-
D.
Fuel for the Flame
Fuel for the Flame is a novel by British writer Alec Waugh, known for its exploration of personal relationships and social mores in mid-20th-century settings.
-
E.
The Black Flame
The Black Flame is a major Hellboy universe storyline centered on a sinister, flame-wreathed villain whose rise to power threatens global catastrophe and deeply impacts the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense.
- 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 Substance of Fire Target entity description: The Substance of Fire is a 1991 stage play by Jon Robin Baitz, later adapted into a film, that explores family conflict, Holocaust trauma, and the decline of a once-powerful New York publishing house.
-
A.
The Fire
The Fire is a Major League Soccer club based in Chicago, Illinois, known formally as Chicago Fire FC.
-
B.
The Fire Raisers
The Fire Raisers is an English title for Max Frisch’s darkly comic play about complacency and the rise of fascism, in which a seemingly respectable citizen naively harbors arsonists in his home.
-
C.
Black Fire
Black Fire is a landmark 1968 anthology that showcases a wide range of Black Arts Movement poetry, fiction, and essays by African American writers.
-
D.
Fuel for the Flame
Fuel for the Flame is a novel by British writer Alec Waugh, known for its exploration of personal relationships and social mores in mid-20th-century settings.
-
E.
The Black Flame
The Black Flame is a major Hellboy universe storyline centered on a sinister, flame-wreathed villain whose rise to power threatens global catastrophe and deeply impacts the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drama film
ⓘ
stage play ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
The Substance of Fire (film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Substance of Fire
|
| author | Jon Robin Baitz ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Substance of Fire ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Jon Robin Baitz ⓘ |
| director | Daniel J. Sullivan ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1991 ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
decline of a family business
ⓘ
ethics of publishing ⓘ intergenerational trauma ⓘ legacy of the Holocaust ⓘ power and control within families ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Holocaust trauma
ⓘ
family conflict ⓘ publishing industry ⓘ |
| medium |
cinema
ⓘ
theatre ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1991 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Jon Robin Baitz ⓘ |
| setting |
New York City
ⓘ
publishing house ⓘ |
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 Substance of Fire Description of subject: The Substance of Fire is a 1991 stage play by Jon Robin Baitz, later adapted into a film, that explores family conflict, Holocaust trauma, and the decline of a once-powerful New York publishing house.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Substance of Fire
subject linked to:
Rifkin
linked to: The Substance of Fire
subject linked to:
The Substance of Fire
subject linked to:
The Substance of Fire (stage play)
linked to: The Substance of Fire