Robert Jess Roth
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Robert Jess Roth is an American theatre director best known for staging the original Broadway production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Jess Roth canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7802359 — 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)
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Target entity: Robert Jess Roth Context triple: [Beauty and the Beast (musical), originalDirector, Robert Jess Roth]
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A.
Jonathan Poneman
Jonathan Poneman is an American music executive best known as the co-founder of the influential independent record label Sub Pop, which helped launch the grunge movement and bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden.
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B.
Jeff Russo
Jeff Russo is an American composer and musician best known for his atmospheric scores for film, television, and video games, including series like Fargo and Star Trek: Discovery.
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C.
Joel Stransky
Joel Stransky is a former South African rugby union fly-half best known for kicking the winning drop goal in the 1995 Rugby World Cup final.
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D.
Joshua Michael Stern
Joshua Michael Stern is an American film director and screenwriter known for helming biographical and dramatic feature films.
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E.
Jeremy Doner
Jeremy Doner is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 2022 biographical musical film "Elvis."
- 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: Robert Jess Roth Target entity description: Robert Jess Roth is an American theatre director best known for staging the original Broadway production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.
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A.
Jonathan Poneman
Jonathan Poneman is an American music executive best known as the co-founder of the influential independent record label Sub Pop, which helped launch the grunge movement and bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden.
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B.
Jeff Russo
Jeff Russo is an American composer and musician best known for his atmospheric scores for film, television, and video games, including series like Fargo and Star Trek: Discovery.
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C.
Joel Stransky
Joel Stransky is a former South African rugby union fly-half best known for kicking the winning drop goal in the 1995 Rugby World Cup final.
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D.
Joshua Michael Stern
Joshua Michael Stern is an American film director and screenwriter known for helming biographical and dramatic feature films.
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E.
Jeremy Doner
Jeremy Doner is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 2022 biographical musical film "Elvis."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
theatre director ⓘ |
| activeIn |
21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| artisticSpecialty |
family-oriented musical adaptations
ⓘ
large-scale spectacle staging ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Disney Theatrical Productions
NERFINISHED
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Walt Disney Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed | Beauty and the Beast (original Broadway production) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Broadway theatre industry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Broadway theatre
ⓘ
musical theatre ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre | musical theatre ⓘ |
| hasGivenInterviewIn |
Playbill
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The New York Times NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | staging the original Broadway production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | directing large-scale commercial musical productions ⓘ |
| notableStageCredit | Beauty and the Beast on Broadway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Beauty and the Beast (original Broadway production) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
Broadway director
ⓘ
stage director ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Robert Jess Roth Description of subject: Robert Jess Roth is an American theatre director best known for staging the original Broadway production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.