The Real Thing
E322838
The Real Thing is a 1982 play by Tom Stoppard that explores love, fidelity, and authenticity through a meta-theatrical story about a playwright whose personal and professional lives intertwine.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Real Thing canonical | 9 |
| The Real Thing (original Broadway production) | 1 |
| The Real Thing (play) | 1 |
| The Real Thing (stage play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3067128 — 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: The Real Thing Context triple: [Tom Stoppard, notableWork, The Real Thing]
-
A.
All for Love
All for Love is a 1985 R&B and pop studio album by American boy band New Edition, featuring hits that helped solidify their status in the mid-1980s music scene.
-
B.
Another Country
Another Country is a 1962 novel by James Baldwin that explores race, sexuality, and complex human relationships in mid-20th-century America.
-
C.
A Delicate Balance
A Delicate Balance is a Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Edward Albee that explores the fragility of family relationships and the existential anxieties underlying upper-middle-class life.
-
D.
Rabbit Hole
"Rabbit Hole" is a 2010 drama film, adapted from David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play, about a couple coping with the grief of losing their young son.
-
E.
Intimate Apparel
Intimate Apparel is a critically acclaimed play by Lynn Nottage that explores race, class, gender, and desire in early 20th-century New York through the story of a Black seamstress.
- 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: The Real Thing Target entity description: The Real Thing is a 1982 play by Tom Stoppard that explores love, fidelity, and authenticity through a meta-theatrical story about a playwright whose personal and professional lives intertwine.
-
A.
All for Love
All for Love is a 1985 R&B and pop studio album by American boy band New Edition, featuring hits that helped solidify their status in the mid-1980s music scene.
-
B.
Another Country
Another Country is a 1962 novel by James Baldwin that explores race, sexuality, and complex human relationships in mid-20th-century America.
-
C.
A Delicate Balance
A Delicate Balance is a Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Edward Albee that explores the fragility of family relationships and the existential anxieties underlying upper-middle-class life.
-
D.
Rabbit Hole
"Rabbit Hole" is a 2010 drama film, adapted from David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play, about a couple coping with the grief of losing their young son.
-
E.
Intimate Apparel
Intimate Apparel is a critically acclaimed play by Lynn Nottage that explores race, class, gender, and desire in early 20th-century New York through the story of a Black seamstress.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | play ⓘ |
| author | Tom Stoppard ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dramaticForm | two-act play ⓘ |
| explores |
complexities of romantic commitment
ⓘ
difference between genuine emotion and performance ⓘ role of the artist in society ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceYear | 1982 ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
metatheatre ⓘ romantic drama ⓘ |
| hasDialogueStyle |
intellectually playful
ⓘ
witty ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
Annie
ⓘ
Charlotte ⓘ Henry ⓘ Max ⓘ |
| hasTone |
bittersweet
ⓘ
comic ⓘ serious ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | adult theatre audiences ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
adultery
ⓘ
art and life ⓘ authenticity ⓘ fidelity ⓘ love ⓘ marriage ⓘ |
| medium | live theatre ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | play within a play ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blurring boundaries between art and reality
ⓘ
self-referential theatrical structure ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Tom Stoppard plays ⓘ |
| periodOfWork | late 20th century theatre ⓘ |
| premiereType | stage premiere ⓘ |
| setting |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| structure | metatheatrical ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
intersection of personal and professional life
ⓘ
relationships of a playwright ⓘ |
| workPeriodOfAuthor | Stoppard’s middle career ⓘ |
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: The Real Thing Description of subject: The Real Thing is a 1982 play by Tom Stoppard that explores love, fidelity, and authenticity through a meta-theatrical story about a playwright whose personal and professional lives intertwine.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Real Thing (play)
this entity surface form:
The Real Thing (original Broadway production)
this entity surface form:
The Real Thing (stage play)