Anthony Rapp
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Anthony Rapp is an American actor and singer best known for originating the role of Mark Cohen in the Broadway musical "Rent" and for his work in theater, film, and television, including "Star Trek: Discovery."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anthony Rapp canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7424025 — 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: Anthony Rapp Context triple: [If/Then, originalBroadwayCastMember, Anthony Rapp]
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A.
John Cameron Mitchell
John Cameron Mitchell is an American actor, writer, and director best known as the creator and star of the rock musical and film "Hedwig and the Angry Inch."
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B.
Kristopher Steven Keach
Kristopher Steven Keach is one of the twin sons of English-American actress Jane Seymour and her former husband, actor-director James Keach.
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C.
River Phoenix
River Phoenix was an acclaimed American actor and teen idol of the late 1980s and early 1990s, known for his sensitive, charismatic performances in films such as "Stand by Me" and "My Own Private Idaho."
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D.
Jason Patric
Jason Patric is an American film and stage actor known for roles in movies such as "The Lost Boys," "Sleepers," and "Speed 2: Cruise Control."
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E.
William H. Doremus
William H. Doremus was an American individual notable enough to be interred at Hackensack Cemetery in Hackensack, New Jersey.
- 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: Anthony Rapp Target entity description: Anthony Rapp is an American actor and singer best known for originating the role of Mark Cohen in the Broadway musical "Rent" and for his work in theater, film, and television, including "Star Trek: Discovery."
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A.
John Cameron Mitchell
John Cameron Mitchell is an American actor, writer, and director best known as the creator and star of the rock musical and film "Hedwig and the Angry Inch."
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B.
Kristopher Steven Keach
Kristopher Steven Keach is one of the twin sons of English-American actress Jane Seymour and her former husband, actor-director James Keach.
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C.
River Phoenix
River Phoenix was an acclaimed American actor and teen idol of the late 1980s and early 1990s, known for his sensitive, charismatic performances in films such as "Stand by Me" and "My Own Private Idaho."
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D.
Jason Patric
Jason Patric is an American film and stage actor known for roles in movies such as "The Lost Boys," "Sleepers," and "Speed 2: Cruise Control."
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E.
William H. Doremus
William H. Doremus was an American individual notable enough to be interred at Hackensack Cemetery in Hackensack, New Jersey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway performer
ⓘ
film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
film
ⓘ
music ⓘ television ⓘ theater ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1971-10-26 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | New York University ⓘ |
| familyName | Rapp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmRole |
Darryl in Adventures in Babysitting
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mark Cohen in Rent (2005 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard in A Beautiful Mind NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Olson in Dazed and Confused NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | musical theatre ⓘ |
| givenName | Anthony ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Adam Rapp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | originating the role of Mark Cohen in the musical Rent ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Anthony Rapp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Beautiful Mind
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Adventures in Babysitting NERFINISHED ⓘ Dazed and Confused NERFINISHED ⓘ If/Then NERFINISHED ⓘ Rent NERFINISHED ⓘ Star Trek: Discovery NERFINISHED ⓘ Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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author ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| performedIn |
Broadway production of Rent
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
film adaptation of Rent (2005) ⓘ original Off-Broadway production of Rent ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation |
gay
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queer ⓘ |
| siblingOccupation |
novelist
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playwright ⓘ |
| spouse | Ken Ithiphol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| televisionRole | Paul Stamets in Star Trek: Discovery ⓘ |
| theaterRole |
Lucas in If/Then
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mark Cohen in Rent ⓘ |
| wrote | Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent 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: Anthony Rapp Description of subject: Anthony Rapp is an American actor and singer best known for originating the role of Mark Cohen in the Broadway musical "Rent" and for his work in theater, film, and television, including "Star Trek: Discovery."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Broadway production of Rent
subject surface form:
If/Then (Broadway production)