Richard Maltby Jr.
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Richard Maltby Jr. is an American lyricist and director best known for his work on Broadway musicals and musical revues such as "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Fosse."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Maltby Jr. canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5317422 — 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 Maltby Jr. Context triple: [Miss Potter, screenwriter, Richard Maltby Jr.]
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A.
Jerry Mitchell
Jerry Mitchell is an American theater director and choreographer best known for his work on hit Broadway musicals such as "Kinky Boots," "Legally Blonde," and "Hairspray."
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B.
Richard Marden
Richard Marden was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including adaptations of classic literature.
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C.
Barry Robinson
Barry Robinson is a recurring character from the animated TV series "American Dad!", known as one of Steve Smith’s nerdy yet unpredictably dangerous friends.
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D.
Richard O'Connor
Richard O'Connor was a British Army general best known for leading the highly successful Western Desert campaign against Italian forces in North Africa during the early years of World War II.
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E.
Joby Harold
Joby Harold is a British screenwriter, director, and producer known for his work on genre films and television series, including projects like "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" and "Obi-Wan Kenobi."
- 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 Maltby Jr. Target entity description: Richard Maltby Jr. is an American lyricist and director best known for his work on Broadway musicals and musical revues such as "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Fosse."
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A.
Jerry Mitchell
Jerry Mitchell is an American theater director and choreographer best known for his work on hit Broadway musicals such as "Kinky Boots," "Legally Blonde," and "Hairspray."
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B.
Richard Marden
Richard Marden was a British film editor known for his work on notable mid-20th-century films, including adaptations of classic literature.
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C.
Barry Robinson
Barry Robinson is a recurring character from the animated TV series "American Dad!", known as one of Steve Smith’s nerdy yet unpredictably dangerous friends.
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D.
Richard O'Connor
Richard O'Connor was a British Army general best known for leading the highly successful Western Desert campaign against Italian forces in North Africa during the early years of World War II.
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E.
Joby Harold
Joby Harold is a British screenwriter, director, and producer known for his work on genre films and television series, including projects like "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" and "Obi-Wan Kenobi."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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lyricist ⓘ musical revue ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Broadway
NERFINISHED
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Off-Broadway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Tony Award for Best Musical
NERFINISHED
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Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Fats Waller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creativeWork |
Ain't Misbehavin'
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Baby NERFINISHED ⓘ Closer Than Ever NERFINISHED ⓘ Fosse NERFINISHED ⓘ Miss Saigon (English lyrics) NERFINISHED ⓘ Starting Here, Starting Now NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Richard Maltby Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Maltby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Broadway musicals
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musical revues ⓘ musical theatre ⓘ |
| genre |
musical theatre
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revue ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| knownFor |
conceiving Ain't Misbehavin'
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directing Ain't Misbehavin' NERFINISHED ⓘ directing Fosse ⓘ writing English lyrics for Miss Saigon ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Richard Maltby Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole |
co-conceiver of Fosse
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director of Ain't Misbehavin' ⓘ lyricist for Baby ⓘ lyricist for Closer Than Ever ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ain't Misbehavin'
NERFINISHED
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Baby NERFINISHED ⓘ Closer Than Ever NERFINISHED ⓘ Fosse NERFINISHED ⓘ Miss Saigon NERFINISHED ⓘ Starting Here, Starting Now NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
Broadway director
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lyricist ⓘ stage director ⓘ theatre director ⓘ |
| workLocation | 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 Maltby Jr. Description of subject: Richard Maltby Jr. is an American lyricist and director best known for his work on Broadway musicals and musical revues such as "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Fosse."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Miss Potter