The Humans (play)
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The Humans is a critically acclaimed one-act drama by Stephen Karam that portrays a family’s tense Thanksgiving gathering in a New York City apartment, exploring themes of anxiety, class, and generational conflict.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Humans (Off-Broadway) | 2 |
| The Humans (play) canonical | 2 |
| The Humans (2014 stage premiere) | 1 |
| The Humans (Broadway production) | 1 |
| The Humans (Broadway) | 1 |
| The Humans (screenplay) | 1 |
| The Humans (stage play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T684131 — 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: The Humans (play) Context triple: [Scott Rudin, notableWork, The Humans (play)]
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A.
The Skin of Our Teeth
The Skin of Our Teeth is a Pulitzer Prize–winning 1942 play by Thornton Wilder that blends absurdist comedy and allegory to depict the enduring resilience of a family—and humanity—through apocalyptic catastrophes.
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B.
The Visit
The Visit is a 2015 found-footage-style horror film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan about two siblings whose trip to visit their grandparents turns terrifying.
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C.
I Am Listening (play)
"I Am Listening" is a lesser-known stage play by acclaimed American playwright and director Moss Hart, best known for works like "You Can't Take It with You" and "The Man Who Came to Dinner."
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D.
Babes in Arms
Babes in Arms is a 1939 American musical film, based on the Rodgers and Hart stage musical, best known for starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney as aspiring performers putting on a show.
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E.
Mr. Finn’s Cabaret
Mr. Finn’s Cabaret is an intimate performance space associated with Barrington Stage Company, known for hosting cabaret-style music and theatrical 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: The Humans (play) Target entity description: The Humans is a critically acclaimed one-act drama by Stephen Karam that portrays a family’s tense Thanksgiving gathering in a New York City apartment, exploring themes of anxiety, class, and generational conflict.
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A.
The Skin of Our Teeth
The Skin of Our Teeth is a Pulitzer Prize–winning 1942 play by Thornton Wilder that blends absurdist comedy and allegory to depict the enduring resilience of a family—and humanity—through apocalyptic catastrophes.
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B.
The Visit
The Visit is a 2015 found-footage-style horror film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan about two siblings whose trip to visit their grandparents turns terrifying.
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C.
I Am Listening (play)
"I Am Listening" is a lesser-known stage play by acclaimed American playwright and director Moss Hart, best known for works like "You Can't Take It with You" and "The Man Who Came to Dinner."
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D.
Babes in Arms
Babes in Arms is a 1939 American musical film, based on the Rodgers and Hart stage musical, best known for starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney as aspiring performers putting on a show.
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E.
Mr. Finn’s Cabaret
Mr. Finn’s Cabaret is an intimate performance space associated with Barrington Stage Company, known for hosting cabaret-style music and theatrical events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: The Humans (play) Description of subject: The Humans is a critically acclaimed one-act drama by Stephen Karam that portrays a family’s tense Thanksgiving gathering in a New York City apartment, exploring themes of anxiety, class, and generational conflict.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Humans (screenplay)
this entity surface form:
The Humans (stage play)
this entity surface form:
The Humans (2014 stage premiere)
this entity surface form:
The Humans (Broadway production)
this entity surface form:
The Humans (Off-Broadway)
this entity surface form:
The Humans (Broadway)
this entity surface form:
The Humans (Off-Broadway)