Paul Taylor
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Paul Taylor was a pioneering American modern dancer and choreographer known for his innovative, emotionally rich works and for founding the Paul Taylor Dance Company.
All labels observed (1)
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| Paul Taylor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9391575 — 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: Paul Taylor Context triple: [White Oak Dance Project, collaboratedWith, Paul Taylor]
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A.
Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp is an acclaimed American choreographer and dancer known for her innovative blend of ballet, modern dance, and popular music in both concert works and Broadway productions.
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B.
Merce Cunningham
Merce Cunningham was a pioneering American choreographer whose experimental, chance-based approach to movement and collaborations with leading avant-garde artists reshaped modern dance in the 20th century.
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C.
Trisha Brown
Trisha Brown was a pioneering American postmodern choreographer and dancer known for her innovative, gravity-defying movement vocabulary and as a founding figure of the Judson Dance Theater.
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D.
Mark Morris
Mark Morris is an acclaimed American choreographer and founder of the Mark Morris Dance Group, renowned for his musicality, wit, and innovative contemporary ballet and modern dance works.
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E.
Kay Dorrance
Kay Dorrance is a central female character in the 1947 film "The Hucksters," portrayed as a refined war widow who becomes the romantic interest of the advertising executive protagonist.
- 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: Paul Taylor Target entity description: Paul Taylor was a pioneering American modern dancer and choreographer known for his innovative, emotionally rich works and for founding the Paul Taylor Dance Company.
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A.
Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp is an acclaimed American choreographer and dancer known for her innovative blend of ballet, modern dance, and popular music in both concert works and Broadway productions.
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B.
Merce Cunningham
Merce Cunningham was a pioneering American choreographer whose experimental, chance-based approach to movement and collaborations with leading avant-garde artists reshaped modern dance in the 20th century.
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C.
Trisha Brown
Trisha Brown was a pioneering American postmodern choreographer and dancer known for her innovative, gravity-defying movement vocabulary and as a founding figure of the Judson Dance Theater.
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D.
Mark Morris
Mark Morris is an acclaimed American choreographer and founder of the Mark Morris Dance Group, renowned for his musicality, wit, and innovative contemporary ballet and modern dance works.
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E.
Kay Dorrance
Kay Dorrance is a central female character in the 1947 film "The Hucksters," portrayed as a refined war widow who becomes the romantic interest of the advertising executive protagonist.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artistic director
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choreographer ⓘ human ⓘ modern dancer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Kennedy Center Honors
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MacArthur Fellowship NERFINISHED ⓘ National Medal of Arts ⓘ Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Juilliard School
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Syracuse University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
choreography
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dance ⓘ |
| founded | Paul Taylor Dance Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary dance
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modern dance ⓘ |
| givenName | Paul ⓘ |
| influenced |
American modern dance
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Paul Taylor Dance Company repertoire ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Martha Graham
NERFINISHED
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Merce Cunningham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Martha Graham Dance Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | modern dance ⓘ |
| name | Paul Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
3 Epitaphs
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Arden Court NERFINISHED ⓘ Aureole NERFINISHED ⓘ Beloved Renegade NERFINISHED ⓘ Big Bertha NERFINISHED ⓘ Black Tuesday NERFINISHED ⓘ Cloven Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ Company B NERFINISHED ⓘ Esplanade NERFINISHED ⓘ Eventide NERFINISHED ⓘ Mercuric Tidings NERFINISHED ⓘ Piazzolla Caldera NERFINISHED ⓘ Profiles ⓘ Promethean Fire NERFINISHED ⓘ Roses ⓘ Runes NERFINISHED ⓘ Scudorama NERFINISHED ⓘ Speaking in Tongues NERFINISHED ⓘ Sunset NERFINISHED ⓘ The Word NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
choreographer
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dancer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Paul Taylor Description of subject: Paul Taylor was a pioneering American modern dancer and choreographer known for his innovative, emotionally rich works and for founding the Paul Taylor Dance Company.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.