Lonny Price
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Lonny Price is an American actor and director best known for his work on stage and screen, including notable performances on Broadway and extensive directing for theater and television.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lonny Price canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8424418 — 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: Lonny Price Context triple: [Dirty Dancing, castMember, Lonny Price]
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A.
Lonnie Lynn
Lonnie Lynn was an American jazz musician and poet best known as the father of rapper Common and for his spoken-word appearances on his son's albums.
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B.
Gilroy Roberts
Gilroy Roberts was an American sculptor and engraver best known as the ninth Chief Engraver of the U.S. Mint and for creating the obverse portrait of President John F. Kennedy on the Kennedy half dollar.
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C.
Lennie Niehaus
Lennie Niehaus was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and longtime film scorer best known for his frequent collaborations with director Clint Eastwood.
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D.
Phil Garner
Phil Garner is a former Major League Baseball second baseman and manager, best known for leading the Houston Astros to their first World Series appearance in 2005.
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E.
Glen Selvy
Glen Selvy is a central character in Don DeLillo’s novel "Running Dog," depicted as a disillusioned former government operative entangled in a dangerous conspiracy involving a rumored pornographic film of Adolf Hitler.
- 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: Lonny Price Target entity description: Lonny Price is an American actor and director best known for his work on stage and screen, including notable performances on Broadway and extensive directing for theater and television.
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A.
Lonnie Lynn
Lonnie Lynn was an American jazz musician and poet best known as the father of rapper Common and for his spoken-word appearances on his son's albums.
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B.
Gilroy Roberts
Gilroy Roberts was an American sculptor and engraver best known as the ninth Chief Engraver of the U.S. Mint and for creating the obverse portrait of President John F. Kennedy on the Kennedy half dollar.
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C.
Lennie Niehaus
Lennie Niehaus was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and longtime film scorer best known for his frequent collaborations with director Clint Eastwood.
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D.
Phil Garner
Phil Garner is a former Major League Baseball second baseman and manager, best known for leading the Houston Astros to their first World Series appearance in 2005.
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E.
Glen Selvy
Glen Selvy is a central character in Don DeLillo’s novel "Running Dog," depicted as a disillusioned former government operative entangled in a dangerous conspiracy involving a rumored pornographic film of Adolf Hitler.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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human ⓘ television director ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City (theatre work) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Price NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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musical theatre ⓘ television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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musical ⓘ |
| givenName | Lonny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDirectedForTelevision | true ⓘ |
| hasDirectedForTheatre | true ⓘ |
| hasWorkedOnBroadway | true ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Lonny Price NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration |
New York Philharmonic
NERFINISHED
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Stephen Sondheim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
acting in and directing Broadway productions
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directing concert productions of Stephen Sondheim musicals ⓘ |
| notableWork |
110 in the Shade (Broadway revival, director)
NERFINISHED
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A Chorus Line (Broadway, performer) NERFINISHED ⓘ A Class Act NERFINISHED ⓘ A Class Act (Broadway, co‑creator and director) NERFINISHED ⓘ Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened NERFINISHED ⓘ Company (2011 New York Philharmonic concert production) NERFINISHED ⓘ Dirty Dancing: The Television Series NERFINISHED ⓘ Falsettos (Broadway, performer) NERFINISHED ⓘ Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill (television film, director) NERFINISHED ⓘ Master Harold...and the Boys (Broadway revival, director) NERFINISHED ⓘ Master Harold...and the Boys (Broadway, actor) NERFINISHED ⓘ Merrily We Roll Along NERFINISHED ⓘ Merrily We Roll Along (Broadway, actor) NERFINISHED ⓘ Rags (Broadway, performer) NERFINISHED ⓘ Sunset Boulevard (London revival, director) NERFINISHED ⓘ Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Lincoln Center concert production) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Muppets Take Manhattan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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film actor ⓘ film director ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ television director ⓘ theatre director ⓘ writer ⓘ |
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: Lonny Price Description of subject: Lonny Price is an American actor and director best known for his work on stage and screen, including notable performances on Broadway and extensive directing for theater and television.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.