Scott Wittman
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Scott Wittman is an American lyricist, director, and writer best known for his Tony-winning Broadway collaborations with Marc Shaiman on shows like "Hairspray" and "Catch Me If You Can."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Scott Wittman canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1107915 — 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: Scott Wittman Context triple: [Mary Poppins Returns, lyricsBy, Scott Wittman]
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A.
Eric Wetzels
Eric Wetzels is a Dutch politician who serves as the chairperson of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
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B.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
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C.
Scott Kroopf
Scott Kroopf is an American film producer known for his work on numerous Hollywood features, including the science-fiction adventure film "Zathura: A Space Adventure."
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D.
Chris Stolte
Chris Stolte is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former chief development officer of the data visualization company Tableau Software.
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E.
Gregory Widen
Gregory Widen is an American screenwriter and director best known for creating the film "Highlander" and writing the screenplay for the firefighter drama "Backdraft."
- 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: Scott Wittman Target entity description: Scott Wittman is an American lyricist, director, and writer best known for his Tony-winning Broadway collaborations with Marc Shaiman on shows like "Hairspray" and "Catch Me If You Can."
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A.
Eric Wetzels
Eric Wetzels is a Dutch politician who serves as the chairperson of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
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B.
Kevin Hageman
Kevin Hageman is an American screenwriter and producer known for his work on animated and family films and television series, including contributions to The Lego Movie franchise.
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C.
Scott Kroopf
Scott Kroopf is an American film producer known for his work on numerous Hollywood features, including the science-fiction adventure film "Zathura: A Space Adventure."
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D.
Chris Stolte
Chris Stolte is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former chief development officer of the data visualization company Tableau Software.
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E.
Gregory Widen
Gregory Widen is an American screenwriter and director best known for creating the film "Highlander" and writing the screenplay for the firefighter drama "Backdraft."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway lyricist
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lyricist ⓘ person ⓘ songwriter ⓘ theatre director ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album
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Tony Award for Best Original Score ⓘ |
| coCreated |
Catch Me If You Can (stage musical)
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Hairspray ⓘ
surface form:
Hairspray (stage musical)
Some Like It Hot ⓘ
surface form:
Some Like It Hot (stage musical)
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| collaboratesWith | Marc Shaiman ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWrote |
songs for Mary Poppins Returns
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songs for the TV series Smash ⓘ |
| creativeRole | lyricist for stage and screen musicals ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film music
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musical theatre ⓘ television music ⓘ |
| genre | musical theatre ⓘ |
| knownFor | Broadway collaborations with Marc Shaiman ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album
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surface form:
Grammy Award for Hairspray (cast recording)
Tony Award for Best Musical ⓘ
surface form:
Tony Award for Hairspray
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| notableCollaboration | long-term partnership with composer Marc Shaiman ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bombshell
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surface form:
Bombshell (fictional musical within TV series Smash)
Catch Me If You Can ⓘ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (stage musical) ⓘ Hairspray ⓘ Mary Poppins Returns ⓘ Some Like It Hot ⓘ
surface form:
Some Like It Hot (stage musical)
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| occupation |
director
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lyricist ⓘ songwriter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| wroteLyricsFor |
Bombshell
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surface form:
Bombshell (fictional musical within TV series Smash)
Catch Me If You Can ⓘ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (stage musical) ⓘ Hairspray ⓘ Mary Poppins Returns ⓘ Some Like It Hot ⓘ
surface form:
Some Like It Hot (stage musical)
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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: Scott Wittman Description of subject: Scott Wittman is an American lyricist, director, and writer best known for his Tony-winning Broadway collaborations with Marc Shaiman on shows like "Hairspray" and "Catch Me If You Can."
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.