Times Square Angel
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Times Square Angel is a campy, holiday-themed stage play written by Charles Busch that parodies 1940s film noir and melodrama.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Times Square Angel canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13183842 — 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: Times Square Angel Context triple: [Charles Busch, notableWork, Times Square Angel]
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A.
Smiling Angel statue
The Smiling Angel statue is a famous Gothic sculpture at Reims Cathedral, celebrated for its serene, gently smiling expression that has become an emblem of the city and French medieval art.
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B.
Max Neuhaus Times Square
Max Neuhaus Times Square is a renowned site-specific sound installation embedded in a Manhattan sidewalk grate that subtly transforms the ambient noise of Times Square into an immersive auditory experience.
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C.
Times Square Alliance
Times Square Alliance is a nonprofit business improvement organization that manages, promotes, and enhances New York City’s Times Square district.
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D.
Charging Bull sculpture
The Charging Bull sculpture is a famous bronze statue in New York City symbolizing financial optimism and strength, particularly associated with Wall Street and the financial district.
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E.
Angel of the Waters statue
The Angel of the Waters statue is a celebrated neoclassical bronze sculpture crowning New York City's Bethesda Fountain, symbolizing healing and purity.
- 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: Times Square Angel Target entity description: Times Square Angel is a campy, holiday-themed stage play written by Charles Busch that parodies 1940s film noir and melodrama.
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A.
Smiling Angel statue
The Smiling Angel statue is a famous Gothic sculpture at Reims Cathedral, celebrated for its serene, gently smiling expression that has become an emblem of the city and French medieval art.
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B.
Max Neuhaus Times Square
Max Neuhaus Times Square is a renowned site-specific sound installation embedded in a Manhattan sidewalk grate that subtly transforms the ambient noise of Times Square into an immersive auditory experience.
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C.
Times Square Alliance
Times Square Alliance is a nonprofit business improvement organization that manages, promotes, and enhances New York City’s Times Square district.
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D.
Charging Bull sculpture
The Charging Bull sculpture is a famous bronze statue in New York City symbolizing financial optimism and strength, particularly associated with Wall Street and the financial district.
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E.
Angel of the Waters statue
The Angel of the Waters statue is a celebrated neoclassical bronze sculpture crowning New York City's Bethesda Fountain, symbolizing healing and purity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
stage play
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theatrical production ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Charles Busch repertory ⓘ |
| author | Charles Busch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| featuresStyle | camp performance style ⓘ |
| genre |
camp
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film noir parody ⓘ holiday-themed play ⓘ melodrama ⓘ parody ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Christmas
NERFINISHED
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New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ redemption ⓘ show business ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Times Square Angel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | live theatre ⓘ |
| notableFor | annual holiday-season performances in New York theatre scene ⓘ |
| parodies |
1940s Hollywood melodrama
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1940s film noir ⓘ |
| setting | Times Square NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 1940s ⓘ |
| writer | Charles Busch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Times Square Angel Description of subject: Times Square Angel is a campy, holiday-themed stage play written by Charles Busch that parodies 1940s film noir and melodrama.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.