Adding Machine
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"Adding Machine" is a stage musical adaptation of Elmer Rice’s 1923 expressionist play "The Adding Machine," known for its darkly satirical exploration of dehumanization in a mechanized, bureaucratic society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adding Machine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11028425 — 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: Adding Machine Context triple: [Minetta Lane Theatre, hostedProduction, Adding Machine]
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NuMachine
NuMachine was an early 1980s experimental workstation computer project at MIT that pioneered the NuBus expansion bus architecture.
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Machine
Machine is a professional ultimate frisbee team based in Chicago, Illinois, competing at the elite club level in USA Ultimate competitions.
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Machines
The Machines are a powerful, sentient artificial intelligence civilization that rules over humanity and the simulated reality in the Matrix franchise.
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IAS machine
The IAS machine was an early electronic stored-program computer designed by John von Neumann and his colleagues at the Institute for Advanced Study, serving as a prototype for many subsequent computer architectures.
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E.
Machin
Machin is a surname most notably associated with British sculptor and coin designer Arnold Machin, whose portrait of Queen Elizabeth II appeared on UK coins for decades.
- 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: Adding Machine Target entity description: "Adding Machine" is a stage musical adaptation of Elmer Rice’s 1923 expressionist play "The Adding Machine," known for its darkly satirical exploration of dehumanization in a mechanized, bureaucratic society.
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A.
NuMachine
NuMachine was an early 1980s experimental workstation computer project at MIT that pioneered the NuBus expansion bus architecture.
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B.
Machine
Machine is a professional ultimate frisbee team based in Chicago, Illinois, competing at the elite club level in USA Ultimate competitions.
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C.
Machines
The Machines are a powerful, sentient artificial intelligence civilization that rules over humanity and the simulated reality in the Matrix franchise.
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D.
IAS machine
The IAS machine was an early electronic stored-program computer designed by John von Neumann and his colleagues at the Institute for Advanced Study, serving as a prototype for many subsequent computer architectures.
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E.
Machin
Machin is a surname most notably associated with British sculptor and coin designer Arnold Machin, whose portrait of Queen Elizabeth II appeared on UK coins for decades.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | stage musical ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | The Adding Machine ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Adding Machine ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Elmer Rice ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkType | play ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| genre |
expressionist musical
ⓘ
musical theatre ⓘ satirical musical ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
alienation
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impact of technology on humans ⓘ loss of individuality ⓘ oppression by systems ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | dark satire ⓘ |
| originalWorkAuthor | Elmer Rice ⓘ |
| originalWorkGenre | expressionist play ⓘ |
| originalWorkPublicationYear | 1923 ⓘ |
| originalWorkTitle | The Adding Machine ⓘ |
| portrays |
dehumanized office worker
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impersonal bureaucracy ⓘ mechanized labor ⓘ |
| setting |
bureaucratic office environment
ⓘ
mechanized society ⓘ |
| subject |
bureaucracy
ⓘ
dehumanization ⓘ mechanization ⓘ modern industrial society ⓘ |
| theatricalStyle | expressionism ⓘ |
| workType | stage musical adaptation ⓘ |
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: Adding Machine Description of subject: "Adding Machine" is a stage musical adaptation of Elmer Rice’s 1923 expressionist play "The Adding Machine," known for its darkly satirical exploration of dehumanization in a mechanized, bureaucratic society.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.