Richard Halliday
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Richard Halliday was a prominent American Broadway producer best known for his work on classic mid-20th-century musical theatre.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Halliday canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3169046 — 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: Richard Halliday Context triple: [The Sound of Music, BroadwayProducer, Richard Halliday]
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A.
Richard Hiscott
Richard Hiscott is an editor known for his work on the television series "Willow."
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B.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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C.
Richard Sibson
Richard Sibson is a distinguished geologist recognized for his influential work on fault mechanics and earthquake processes.
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D.
Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce is a voice actor known for his work in animated films, including providing a character voice in Pixar's "A Bug's Life."
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E.
Cecil Brown
Cecil Brown is a name shared by several notable individuals, including an American novelist and academic, a World War II war correspondent, and a British politician.
- 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: Richard Halliday Target entity description: Richard Halliday was a prominent American Broadway producer best known for his work on classic mid-20th-century musical theatre.
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A.
Richard Hiscott
Richard Hiscott is an editor known for his work on the television series "Willow."
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B.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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C.
Richard Sibson
Richard Sibson is a distinguished geologist recognized for his influential work on fault mechanics and earthquake processes.
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D.
Richard Pearce
Richard Pearce is a voice actor known for his work in animated films, including providing a character voice in Pixar's "A Bug's Life."
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E.
Cecil Brown
Cecil Brown is a name shared by several notable individuals, including an American novelist and academic, a World War II war correspondent, and a British politician.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway producer
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person ⓘ theatre producer ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
musical theatre
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theatre ⓘ |
| genre | musical theatre ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notability | prominent American Broadway producer ⓘ |
| notableFor | producing mid-20th-century Broadway musicals ⓘ |
| occupation |
Broadway producer
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theatre producer ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Broadway
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New York City ⓘ |
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: Richard Halliday Description of subject: Richard Halliday was a prominent American Broadway producer best known for his work on classic mid-20th-century musical theatre.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.