Merriam Theater
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The Merriam Theater is a historic performing arts venue in Philadelphia known for hosting Broadway tours, concerts, and other live stage productions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Merriam Theater canonical | 5 |
| Merriam Theater for the Performing Arts | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8041286 — 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: Merriam Theater Context triple: [Avenue of the Arts section, hasLandmark, Merriam Theater]
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A.
Evans Theater
Evans Theater is one of the performance venues within the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts in Anchorage, hosting a variety of live theatrical and cultural events.
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B.
Belding Theater
Belding Theater is a performance venue within the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, Connecticut, hosting a variety of theatrical, musical, and cultural events.
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C.
Fisher Theater
Fisher Theater is a performing arts venue on the campus of Phillips Exeter Academy, used for student theater productions and related cultural events.
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D.
Harvey Theater
Harvey Theater is a prominent performance space in Brooklyn known for hosting innovative theater, dance, and music productions as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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E.
Englert Theatre
Englert Theatre is a historic performing arts venue in downtown Iowa City, Iowa, known for hosting live music, theater, film, and community events.
- 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: Merriam Theater Target entity description: The Merriam Theater is a historic performing arts venue in Philadelphia known for hosting Broadway tours, concerts, and other live stage productions.
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A.
Evans Theater
Evans Theater is one of the performance venues within the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts in Anchorage, hosting a variety of live theatrical and cultural events.
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B.
Belding Theater
Belding Theater is a performance venue within the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, Connecticut, hosting a variety of theatrical, musical, and cultural events.
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C.
Fisher Theater
Fisher Theater is a performing arts venue on the campus of Phillips Exeter Academy, used for student theater productions and related cultural events.
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D.
Harvey Theater
Harvey Theater is a prominent performance space in Brooklyn known for hosting innovative theater, dance, and music productions as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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E.
Englert Theatre
Englert Theatre is a historic performing arts venue in downtown Iowa City, Iowa, known for hosting live music, theater, film, and community events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic building
ⓘ
performing arts venue ⓘ theater ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Beaux-Arts ⓘ |
| buildingType | theater building ⓘ |
| category |
Performing arts venues in Pennsylvania
ⓘ
Theatres in Philadelphia ⓘ Tourist attractions in Philadelphia ⓘ |
| city | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| formerName |
Forrest Theatre
ⓘ
Merriam Theater for the Performing Arts ⓘ
linked to:
Merriam Theater
Sam S. Shubert Theatre ⓘ |
| hasBoxOffice | yes ⓘ |
| hasEventType |
classical music concerts
ⓘ
musical theatre ⓘ plays ⓘ popular music concerts ⓘ |
| hasFunction | performing arts presentation ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasSeating |
balcony
ⓘ
mezzanine ⓘ orchestra level ⓘ |
| hasStage | proscenium stage ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Center City Philadelphia
ⓘ
Pennsylvania ⓘ Philadelphia ⓘ |
| locatedOn | South Broad Street ⓘ |
| namedAfter | John W. Merriam ⓘ |
| near |
Avenue of the Arts
ⓘ
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts ⓘ |
| notableFor |
historic interior
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hosting national Broadway tours ⓘ |
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Kimmel Center, Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
|
| partOf | Kimmel Cultural Campus ⓘ |
| primaryUse | live performance venue ⓘ |
| publicTransitAccess | SEPTA Broad Street Line ⓘ |
| region | Northeastern United States ⓘ |
| state | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Broadway tours
ⓘ
comedy shows ⓘ concerts ⓘ dance performances ⓘ live stage productions ⓘ touring productions ⓘ |
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: Merriam Theater Description of subject: The Merriam Theater is a historic performing arts venue in Philadelphia known for hosting Broadway tours, concerts, and other live stage productions.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.