Alain Boublil
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Alain Boublil is a French lyricist and librettist best known for co-creating the stage musical Les Misérables and other major musical theatre works.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alain Boublil canonical | 14 |
| Boublil | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1105850 — 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: Alain Boublil Context triple: [Les Misérables (2012 film), screenwriter, Alain Boublil]
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A.
Jerry Herman
Jerry Herman was an American composer and lyricist best known for his hit Broadway musicals, including Hello, Dolly! and Mame.
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B.
Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner was an American lyricist and librettist best known for his collaborations with composer Frederick Loewe on classic Broadway and film musicals such as "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot."
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C.
Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Schwartz is an American composer and lyricist renowned for his work in musical theatre and film, including the scores and songs for productions such as "Wicked," "Godspell," and Disney's "Pocahontas" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."
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D.
Howard Ashman
Howard Ashman was an American lyricist, playwright, and producer best known for his acclaimed work on Disney animated musicals such as "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Aladdin."
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E.
Mack David
Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter known for his popular song adaptations and contributions to film and television music.
- 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: Alain Boublil Target entity description: Alain Boublil is a French lyricist and librettist best known for co-creating the stage musical Les Misérables and other major musical theatre works.
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A.
Jerry Herman
Jerry Herman was an American composer and lyricist best known for his hit Broadway musicals, including Hello, Dolly! and Mame.
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B.
Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner was an American lyricist and librettist best known for his collaborations with composer Frederick Loewe on classic Broadway and film musicals such as "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot."
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C.
Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Schwartz is an American composer and lyricist renowned for his work in musical theatre and film, including the scores and songs for productions such as "Wicked," "Godspell," and Disney's "Pocahontas" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."
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D.
Howard Ashman
Howard Ashman was an American lyricist, playwright, and producer best known for his acclaimed work on Disney animated musicals such as "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Aladdin."
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E.
Mack David
Mack David was an American lyricist and songwriter known for his popular song adaptations and contributions to film and television music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Alain Boublil Description of subject: Alain Boublil is a French lyricist and librettist best known for co-creating the stage musical Les Misérables and other major musical theatre works.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Les Misérables (2012 film)
this entity surface form:
Boublil
subject surface form:
"Stars" (Les Misérables musical)