Hammerstein's Theater
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Hammerstein's Theater was a prominent early 20th-century New York City vaudeville and musical theater venue later known as the Ed Sullivan Theater.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hammerstein's Theater canonical | 1 |
| Jolson Theatre, New York City | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8267426 — 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: Hammerstein's Theater Context triple: [Ed Sullivan Theater, originalName, Hammerstein's Theater]
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A.
Gershwin Theatre
The Gershwin Theatre is a major Broadway theater in New York City known for hosting large-scale musical productions, including the long-running hit "Wicked."
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B.
Richard Rodgers Theatre
The Richard Rodgers Theatre is a historic Broadway venue in New York City best known in recent years as the home of the hit musical "Hamilton."
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C.
Cort Theatre
The Cort Theatre is a historic Broadway theater in New York City known for hosting major plays and productions since the early 20th century.
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D.
Al Hirschfeld Theatre
The Al Hirschfeld Theatre is a historic Broadway theater in New York City, renowned for hosting major musical and theatrical productions.
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E.
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre is a historic Broadway theater in New York City known for hosting major musical and theatrical 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: Hammerstein's Theater Target entity description: Hammerstein's Theater was a prominent early 20th-century New York City vaudeville and musical theater venue later known as the Ed Sullivan Theater.
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A.
Gershwin Theatre
The Gershwin Theatre is a major Broadway theater in New York City known for hosting large-scale musical productions, including the long-running hit "Wicked."
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B.
Richard Rodgers Theatre
The Richard Rodgers Theatre is a historic Broadway venue in New York City best known in recent years as the home of the hit musical "Hamilton."
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C.
Cort Theatre
The Cort Theatre is a historic Broadway theater in New York City known for hosting major plays and productions since the early 20th century.
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D.
Al Hirschfeld Theatre
The Al Hirschfeld Theatre is a historic Broadway theater in New York City, renowned for hosting major musical and theatrical productions.
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E.
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre is a historic Broadway theater in New York City known for hosting major musical and theatrical productions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | theater building ⓘ |
| architecturalType | theater ⓘ |
| borough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| city | New York City ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalRegion | Broadway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| hasFunction | live entertainment venue ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
musical theater
ⓘ
revue ⓘ vaudeville ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor | Ed Sullivan Theater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laterKnownAs | Ed Sullivan Theater NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInNeighborhood | Midtown Manhattan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Broadway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Oscar Hammerstein I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEra | early 20th century ⓘ |
| partOf | Broadway theater district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryUse |
musical theater
ⓘ
vaudeville performances ⓘ |
| significance |
historical predecessor of the Ed Sullivan Theater
ⓘ
prominent New York vaudeville venue ⓘ |
| usedFor |
popular entertainment
ⓘ
stage performances ⓘ |
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: Hammerstein's Theater Description of subject: Hammerstein's Theater was a prominent early 20th-century New York City vaudeville and musical theater venue later known as the Ed Sullivan Theater.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jolson Theatre, New York City