Mart Crowley
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Mart Crowley was an American playwright best known for his groundbreaking 1968 play "The Boys in the Band," which depicted the lives of gay men with unprecedented candor on the mainstream stage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mart Crowley canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10751046 — 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: Mart Crowley Context triple: [The Boys in the Band, playwrightOfSource, Mart Crowley]
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A.
Mark Canton
Mark Canton is an American film producer and former studio executive known for overseeing and producing numerous Hollywood films across genres.
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B.
Marc McDermott
Marc McDermott was an Australian-born American actor of the silent film era, known for his prolific work in early Hollywood cinema.
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C.
Dean Parisot
Dean Parisot is an American film and television director best known for directing the sci-fi comedy "Galaxy Quest" and the action-comedy sequel "Red 2."
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D.
Lou Carmody
Lou Carmody is a central character in Joe Hill’s horror novel "NOS4A2," known as the kind-hearted, steadfast partner of protagonist Vic McQueen and the devoted father of their son.
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E.
Jim O’Connor
Jim O’Connor is the charismatic “gentleman caller” whose visit becomes the emotional climax of Tennessee Williams’s play *The Glass Menagerie*.
- 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: Mart Crowley Target entity description: Mart Crowley was an American playwright best known for his groundbreaking 1968 play "The Boys in the Band," which depicted the lives of gay men with unprecedented candor on the mainstream stage.
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A.
Mark Canton
Mark Canton is an American film producer and former studio executive known for overseeing and producing numerous Hollywood films across genres.
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B.
Marc McDermott
Marc McDermott was an Australian-born American actor of the silent film era, known for his prolific work in early Hollywood cinema.
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C.
Dean Parisot
Dean Parisot is an American film and television director best known for directing the sci-fi comedy "Galaxy Quest" and the action-comedy sequel "Red 2."
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D.
Lou Carmody
Lou Carmody is a central character in Joe Hill’s horror novel "NOS4A2," known as the kind-hearted, steadfast partner of protagonist Vic McQueen and the devoted father of their son.
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E.
Jim O’Connor
Jim O’Connor is the charismatic “gentleman caller” whose visit becomes the emotional climax of Tennessee Williams’s play *The Glass Menagerie*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American playwright
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person ⓘ playwright ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ stage play ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| almaMater | The Catholic University of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Mart Crowley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1935-08-21 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2020-03-07 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | The Catholic University of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Crowley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceLocation | Off-Broadway, New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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mystery television series ⓘ |
| givenName | Edward Martino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | gay theatre ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | LGBT theatre ⓘ |
| name | Mart Crowley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | depicting the lives of gay men with candor on the mainstream stage ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Boys in the Band NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
playwright
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screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New York City, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 1968-04-14 ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| subject | gay men ⓘ |
| workedOn | Hart to Hart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
A Breeze from the Gulf
NERFINISHED
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For Reasons That Remain Unclear NERFINISHED ⓘ Remote Asylum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Mart Crowley Description of subject: Mart Crowley was an American playwright best known for his groundbreaking 1968 play "The Boys in the Band," which depicted the lives of gay men with unprecedented candor on the mainstream stage.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.