Lincoln Kirstein
E202895
Lincoln Kirstein was an American writer, arts patron, and cultural impresario best known as the co-founder and driving force behind the New York City Ballet.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lincoln Kirstein canonical | 11 |
| Lincoln Edward Kirstein | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1821295 — 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: Lincoln Kirstein Context triple: [Giorgi Melitonis dze Balanchivadze, coFounderWith, Lincoln Kirstein]
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A.
Joseph Papp
Joseph Papp was an influential American theatrical producer and director, best known for founding The Public Theater and pioneering free Shakespeare in the Park in New York City.
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B.
Milton R. Krasner
Milton R. Krasner was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films, including the acclaimed drama "All About Eve."
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C.
Longy Zwillman
Longy Zwillman was a prominent early-20th-century American mobster and bootlegger often dubbed the "Al Capone of New Jersey" for his influential role in organized crime.
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D.
Chester Kallman
Chester Kallman was an American poet and librettist best known for his long-term personal and artistic collaboration with W. H. Auden on numerous opera libretti and translations.
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E.
Moss Hart
Moss Hart was a prominent American playwright and director best known for his Broadway collaborations with George S. Kaufman and his influential contributions to mid-20th-century theater and film.
- 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: Lincoln Kirstein Target entity description: Lincoln Kirstein was an American writer, arts patron, and cultural impresario best known as the co-founder and driving force behind the New York City Ballet.
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A.
Joseph Papp
Joseph Papp was an influential American theatrical producer and director, best known for founding The Public Theater and pioneering free Shakespeare in the Park in New York City.
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B.
Milton R. Krasner
Milton R. Krasner was an American cinematographer renowned for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films, including the acclaimed drama "All About Eve."
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C.
Longy Zwillman
Longy Zwillman was a prominent early-20th-century American mobster and bootlegger often dubbed the "Al Capone of New Jersey" for his influential role in organized crime.
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D.
Chester Kallman
Chester Kallman was an American poet and librettist best known for his long-term personal and artistic collaboration with W. H. Auden on numerous opera libretti and translations.
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E.
Moss Hart
Moss Hart was a prominent American playwright and director best known for his Broadway collaborations with George S. Kaufman and his influential contributions to mid-20th-century theater and film.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Lincoln Kirstein Description of subject: Lincoln Kirstein was an American writer, arts patron, and cultural impresario best known as the co-founder and driving force behind the New York City Ballet.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lincoln Edward Kirstein