The Overwhelming (theatre production)
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The Overwhelming is a stage play set in Rwanda on the eve of the 1994 genocide, following an American academic and his family as they confront political turmoil and moral ambiguity.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Overwhelming (play) | 1 |
| The Overwhelming (theatre production) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11088717 — 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: The Overwhelming (theatre production) Context triple: [Chipo Chung, notableWork, The Overwhelming (theatre production)]
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A.
Eclipsed (Broadway production)
Eclipsed (Broadway production) is a critically acclaimed Broadway play about five Liberian women during the country’s civil war, noted for its all-Black female cast and creative team.
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B.
The Visit (Broadway)
The Visit (Broadway) is a darkly comic musical with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb, based on Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play about a wealthy woman who returns to her impoverished hometown seeking revenge.
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C.
The Pillowman (Broadway production)
The Pillowman (Broadway production) is the acclaimed Broadway staging of Martin McDonagh’s darkly comic, psychologically intense play about a writer interrogated over gruesome stories that resemble real-life child murders.
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D.
Clouds (play)
Clouds is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes that satirizes Socrates and the intellectual fashions of classical Athens.
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E.
The Playhouse
The Playhouse is a 1921 silent short comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton, famous for its groundbreaking multiple-exposure effects that show Keaton playing nearly every role on screen.
- 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: The Overwhelming (theatre production) Target entity description: The Overwhelming is a stage play set in Rwanda on the eve of the 1994 genocide, following an American academic and his family as they confront political turmoil and moral ambiguity.
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A.
Eclipsed (Broadway production)
Eclipsed (Broadway production) is a critically acclaimed Broadway play about five Liberian women during the country’s civil war, noted for its all-Black female cast and creative team.
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B.
The Visit (Broadway)
The Visit (Broadway) is a darkly comic musical with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb, based on Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play about a wealthy woman who returns to her impoverished hometown seeking revenge.
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C.
The Pillowman (Broadway production)
The Pillowman (Broadway production) is the acclaimed Broadway staging of Martin McDonagh’s darkly comic, psychologically intense play about a writer interrogated over gruesome stories that resemble real-life child murders.
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D.
Clouds (play)
Clouds is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes that satirizes Socrates and the intellectual fashions of classical Athens.
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E.
The Playhouse
The Playhouse is a 1921 silent short comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton, famous for its groundbreaking multiple-exposure effects that show Keaton playing nearly every role on screen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
stage play
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theatre production ⓘ |
| follows | an American academic and his family ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
moral ambiguity
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political turmoil ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Rwanda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | eve of the 1994 Rwandan genocide ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | Rwandan genocide 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: The Overwhelming (theatre production) Description of subject: The Overwhelming is a stage play set in Rwanda on the eve of the 1994 genocide, following an American academic and his family as they confront political turmoil and moral ambiguity.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Overwhelming (play)