True West
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True West is a darkly comic stage play by Sam Shepard that explores the volatile relationship between two estranged brothers and the myth of the American West.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| True West canonical | 8 |
| True West (stage performance) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2081324 — 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: True West Context triple: [Sam Shepard, notableWork, True West]
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A.
Burnt Offerings
Burnt Offerings is a 1976 supernatural horror film about a family menaced by a malevolent house, noted for its atmospheric dread and starring Karen Black and Oliver Reed.
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B.
Thin Red Line
Thin Red Line refers to the famous stand of the 93rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot, who held off a Russian cavalry charge in a thin, two-deep line during the Crimean War, becoming a symbol of steadfast military courage.
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C.
The Big Hurt
The Big Hurt is the nickname of Frank Thomas, a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball slugger known for his powerful hitting and run production, primarily with the Chicago White Sox.
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D.
Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf is a powerful New God warlord from Apokolips who serves as a primary antagonist in DC Comics and its film adaptations, notably battling the Justice League.
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E.
Slow West
Slow West is a 2015 revisionist Western film, starring Kodi Smit-McPhee and Michael Fassbender, that follows a young Scottish man’s perilous journey across the American frontier in search of his lost love.
- 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: True West Target entity description: True West is a darkly comic stage play by Sam Shepard that explores the volatile relationship between two estranged brothers and the myth of the American West.
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A.
Burnt Offerings
Burnt Offerings is a 1976 supernatural horror film about a family menaced by a malevolent house, noted for its atmospheric dread and starring Karen Black and Oliver Reed.
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B.
Thin Red Line
Thin Red Line refers to the famous stand of the 93rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot, who held off a Russian cavalry charge in a thin, two-deep line during the Crimean War, becoming a symbol of steadfast military courage.
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C.
The Big Hurt
The Big Hurt is the nickname of Frank Thomas, a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball slugger known for his powerful hitting and run production, primarily with the Chicago White Sox.
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D.
Steppenwolf
Steppenwolf is a powerful New God warlord from Apokolips who serves as a primary antagonist in DC Comics and its film adaptations, notably battling the Justice League.
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E.
Slow West
Slow West is a 2015 revisionist Western film, starring Kodi Smit-McPhee and Michael Fassbender, that follows a young Scottish man’s perilous journey across the American frontier in search of his lost love.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dark comedy
ⓘ
drama ⓘ stage play ⓘ |
| author | Sam Shepard ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| explores |
myth of the American West
ⓘ
volatile relationship between two estranged brothers ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1980 ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceLocation | San Francisco ⓘ |
| firstProducingTheatre |
Magic Theatre, San Francisco
ⓘ
surface form:
Magic Theatre
|
| genre |
dark comedy
ⓘ
drama ⓘ family drama ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Austin
ⓘ
Lee ⓘ Mom ⓘ Saul Kimmer ⓘ |
| hasDialogueStyle | naturalistic ⓘ |
| hasRightsHolder |
Sam Shepard
ⓘ
surface form:
Sam Shepard estate
|
| hasTone |
absurdist
ⓘ
darkly comic ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
American Western films
ⓘ
Hollywood screenwriting culture ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Austin
ⓘ
Lee ⓘ |
| medium | live theatre ⓘ |
| notableProduction |
1982 Steppenwolf Theatre production
ⓘ
2000 Broadway revival ⓘ 2019 Broadway revival ⓘ |
| numberOfActs | 2 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Buried Child
ⓘ
surface form:
Sam Shepard family trilogy
|
| premiereTheatre | Magic Theatre, San Francisco ⓘ |
| relatedWorkInTrilogy |
Buried Child
ⓘ
Curse of the Starving Class ⓘ |
| setting |
Southern California
ⓘ
suburban house ⓘ |
| structure | four scenes ⓘ |
| subject |
American West myth
ⓘ
family conflict ⓘ identity ⓘ masculinity ⓘ sibling rivalry ⓘ |
| theme |
breakdown of the American Dream
ⓘ
conflict between civilization and wilderness ⓘ duality of personality ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 20th century ⓘ |
| writer | Sam Shepard ⓘ |
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: True West Description of subject: True West is a darkly comic stage play by Sam Shepard that explores the volatile relationship between two estranged brothers and the myth of the American West.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
True West (stage performance)
subject surface form:
Sam Shepard
subject surface form:
Sam Shepard