Jonathan Larson
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Jonathan Larson was an American composer and playwright best known for creating the groundbreaking rock musical "Rent" and the autobiographical work "Tick, Tick... Boom!".
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jonathan Larson canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4979358 — 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: Jonathan Larson Context triple: [Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021 film), musicBy, Jonathan Larson]
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A.
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim was a groundbreaking American composer and lyricist renowned for revolutionizing musical theatre with complex characters, sophisticated lyrics, and innovative works such as "Sweeney Todd," "Company," and "Into the Woods."
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B.
Henry Krieger
Henry Krieger is an American composer best known for his work on Broadway musicals, particularly the hit show "Dreamgirls."
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C.
Maury Yeston
Maury Yeston is an American composer and lyricist best known for his work on Broadway musicals such as "Nine," "Titanic," and "Grand Hotel," for which he has won multiple Tony Awards.
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D.
Howard Ashman
Howard Ashman was an American lyricist, playwright, and producer best known for his acclaimed work on Disney animated musicals such as "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Aladdin."
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E.
Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally was an acclaimed American playwright known for his insightful, often darkly comic explorations of human relationships, LGBTQ+ themes, and contemporary social issues in works such as "Love! Valour! Compassion!" and "Master Class."
- 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: Jonathan Larson Target entity description: Jonathan Larson was an American composer and playwright best known for creating the groundbreaking rock musical "Rent" and the autobiographical work "Tick, Tick... Boom!".
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A.
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim was a groundbreaking American composer and lyricist renowned for revolutionizing musical theatre with complex characters, sophisticated lyrics, and innovative works such as "Sweeney Todd," "Company," and "Into the Woods."
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B.
Henry Krieger
Henry Krieger is an American composer best known for his work on Broadway musicals, particularly the hit show "Dreamgirls."
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C.
Maury Yeston
Maury Yeston is an American composer and lyricist best known for his work on Broadway musicals such as "Nine," "Titanic," and "Grand Hotel," for which he has won multiple Tony Awards.
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D.
Howard Ashman
Howard Ashman was an American lyricist, playwright, and producer best known for his acclaimed work on Disney animated musicals such as "The Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast," and "Aladdin."
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E.
Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally was an acclaimed American playwright known for his insightful, often darkly comic explorations of human relationships, LGBTQ+ themes, and contemporary social issues in works such as "Love! Valour! Compassion!" and "Master Class."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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composer ⓘ human ⓘ lyricist ⓘ musician ⓘ playwright ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics
NERFINISHED
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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music NERFINISHED ⓘ Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for Drama NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Award for Best Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Award for Best Original Score NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | aortic dissection ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1960-02-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1996-01-25 ⓘ |
| diedBefore | the Broadway premiere of Rent ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Adelphi University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Larson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Jonathan David Larson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
musical theatre
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rock musical ⓘ |
| givenName | Jonathan ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
HIV/AIDS in Rent
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bohemian life in New York City in Rent ⓘ |
| hasWorkLocation |
Broadway
NERFINISHED
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Off-Broadway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | 21st-century musical theatre composers ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Stephen Sondheim
NERFINISHED
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rock music ⓘ |
| knownFor |
depicting bohemian life in New York City
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modernizing musical theatre with rock music ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memorial | Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary musical theatre ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Rent
NERFINISHED
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Superbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Tick, Tick... Boom! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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lyricist ⓘ musician ⓘ playwright ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | White Plains, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| subjectOf |
Tick, Tick... Boom! (film)
NERFINISHED
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Tick, Tick... Boom! (stage musical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Jonathan Larson Description of subject: Jonathan Larson was an American composer and playwright best known for creating the groundbreaking rock musical "Rent" and the autobiographical work "Tick, Tick... Boom!".
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jonathan Larson Grants
subject surface form:
Jonathan Larson Grants
subject surface form:
Broadway production of Rent
subject surface form:
Broadway production of Rent
subject surface form:
Broadway production of Rent