Warren Straub
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Warren Straub is a disaffected, drug-using rich kid in Kenneth Lonergan’s play "This Is Our Youth," whose aimless, anxious energy embodies the confusion and moral drift of privileged New York youth in the 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Warren Straub canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10188905 — 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: Warren Straub Context triple: [This Is Our Youth, hasCharacter, Warren Straub]
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A.
George Weidler
George Weidler was an American saxophonist and band musician best known for his brief early marriage to singer and actress Doris Day.
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B.
Richard Stolley
Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
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C.
Charles Guggenheim
Charles Guggenheim was an American documentary filmmaker renowned for his politically engaged and historically focused films, earning multiple Academy Awards over his career.
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D.
George L. Dahl
George L. Dahl was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for shaping much of Dallas’s skyline and major civic landmarks.
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E.
Wilm Hosenfeld
Wilm Hosenfeld was a German Wehrmacht officer known for secretly helping and ultimately saving Polish Jews, most famously the pianist Władysław Szpilman, during World War II.
- 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: Warren Straub Target entity description: Warren Straub is a disaffected, drug-using rich kid in Kenneth Lonergan’s play "This Is Our Youth," whose aimless, anxious energy embodies the confusion and moral drift of privileged New York youth in the 1980s.
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A.
George Weidler
George Weidler was an American saxophonist and band musician best known for his brief early marriage to singer and actress Doris Day.
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B.
Richard Stolley
Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
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C.
Charles Guggenheim
Charles Guggenheim was an American documentary filmmaker renowned for his politically engaged and historically focused films, earning multiple Academy Awards over his career.
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D.
George L. Dahl
George L. Dahl was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for shaping much of Dallas’s skyline and major civic landmarks.
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E.
Wilm Hosenfeld
Wilm Hosenfeld was a German Wehrmacht officer known for secretly helping and ultimately saving Polish Jews, most famously the pianist Władysław Szpilman, during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
theatrical character ⓘ |
| age |
early twenties
ⓘ
late teens ⓘ |
| appearsIn | This Is Our Youth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterType | disaffected rich kid ⓘ |
| createdBy | Kenneth Lonergan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyBackground | wealthy family ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | This Is Our Youth (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
aimless
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anxious ⓘ confused ⓘ morally adrift ⓘ |
| hasThemeRelation |
drug use
ⓘ
moral confusion ⓘ privilege and responsibility ⓘ youth alienation ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| livesIn |
Manhattan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | stage play ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| occupation | unemployed youth ⓘ |
| represents | privileged New York youth in the 1980s ⓘ |
| setIn | Upper West Side, Manhattan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialClass | upper class ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1980s ⓘ |
| uses | drugs ⓘ |
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: Warren Straub Description of subject: Warren Straub is a disaffected, drug-using rich kid in Kenneth Lonergan’s play "This Is Our Youth," whose aimless, anxious energy embodies the confusion and moral drift of privileged New York youth in the 1980s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
This Is Our Youth