Reuben Greene
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Reuben Greene is an American actor best known for his role in the groundbreaking 1968 stage and 1970 film versions of "The Boys in the Band," one of the first major works to depict gay life candidly.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Reuben Greene canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10751074 — 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: Reuben Greene Context triple: [The Boys in the Band, castMember, Reuben Greene]
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A.
Reuben Rogers
Reuben Rogers is a renowned jazz bassist known for his versatile, deeply melodic playing and collaborations with leading contemporary jazz artists.
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B.
Reuben Scott
Reuben Scott is a character in August Wilson’s play "Joe Turner’s Come and Gone," representing part of the African American experience in early 20th-century Pittsburgh.
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C.
Reuben Bright
Reuben Bright is a narrative poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson that poignantly portrays a butcher’s unexpected depth of grief and tenderness after his wife’s death.
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D.
Reuben Haines
Reuben Haines was an early American settler and landowner known for establishing the town of Northumberland in Pennsylvania.
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E.
Reuben Butler
Reuben Butler is a conscientious and morally upright Scottish minister who serves as one of the central figures in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "The Heart of Midlothian."
- 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: Reuben Greene Target entity description: Reuben Greene is an American actor best known for his role in the groundbreaking 1968 stage and 1970 film versions of "The Boys in the Band," one of the first major works to depict gay life candidly.
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A.
Reuben Rogers
Reuben Rogers is a renowned jazz bassist known for his versatile, deeply melodic playing and collaborations with leading contemporary jazz artists.
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B.
Reuben Scott
Reuben Scott is a character in August Wilson’s play "Joe Turner’s Come and Gone," representing part of the African American experience in early 20th-century Pittsburgh.
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C.
Reuben Bright
Reuben Bright is a narrative poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson that poignantly portrays a butcher’s unexpected depth of grief and tenderness after his wife’s death.
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D.
Reuben Haines
Reuben Haines was an early American settler and landowner known for establishing the town of Northumberland in Pennsylvania.
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E.
Reuben Butler
Reuben Butler is a conscientious and morally upright Scottish minister who serves as one of the central figures in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "The Heart of Midlothian."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actor
ⓘ
human ⓘ stage actor ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century American cinema
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20th-century American theatre ⓘ |
| basedOn | LGBT-related themes ⓘ |
| castMemberOf | The Boys in the Band ensemble NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasWorkType |
film performance
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stage performance ⓘ |
| knownFor | appearing in one of the first major works to depict gay life candidly ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notability | portrayed a gay character in early mainstream work about gay life ⓘ |
| notableFor | representation of gay characters on stage and screen ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Boys in the Band (1970 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Boys in the Band (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
The Boys in the Band (1968 Off-Broadway production)
NERFINISHED
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The Boys in the Band (1970 film adaptation) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | original cast of The Boys in the Band ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Reuben Greene Description of subject: Reuben Greene is an American actor best known for his role in the groundbreaking 1968 stage and 1970 film versions of "The Boys in the Band," one of the first major works to depict gay life candidly.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.