The Male Animal (play)
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The Male Animal is a 1940 stage comedy by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent about a mild-mannered English professor whose defense of academic freedom collides with romantic and social tensions at a Midwestern university.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Male Animal (play) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14053319 — 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 Male Animal (play) Context triple: [She’s Working Her Way Through College, adaptationOf, The Male Animal (play)]
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A.
The Women (play)
The Women is a 1936 satirical comedy play by Clare Boothe Luce that portrays the lives, rivalries, and romantic entanglements of a group of wealthy New York women, notable for its all-female cast.
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B.
Still Life (play)
Still Life is a stage play by American writer Alexander Dinelaris Jr. that explores themes of love, trauma, and emotional paralysis in contemporary New York City.
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C.
The Gazebo (play)
The Gazebo is a 1958 Broadway mystery-comedy play, co-written by Alec Coppel and Leueen MacGrath, about a television writer who tries to dispose of a blackmailer’s body in his backyard gazebo with farcical consequences.
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D.
The Dove (play)
The Dove is a stage play that gained prominence as the source material for the 1927 silent film adaptation of the same name.
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E.
The White Lioness (play adaptation)
The White Lioness (play adaptation) is a stage dramatization of Henning Mankell’s crime novel that follows Inspector Kurt Wallander as he uncovers a conspiracy linking a Swedish disappearance to political violence in post-apartheid South Africa.
- 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 Male Animal (play) Target entity description: The Male Animal is a 1940 stage comedy by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent about a mild-mannered English professor whose defense of academic freedom collides with romantic and social tensions at a Midwestern university.
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A.
The Women (play)
The Women is a 1936 satirical comedy play by Clare Boothe Luce that portrays the lives, rivalries, and romantic entanglements of a group of wealthy New York women, notable for its all-female cast.
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B.
Still Life (play)
Still Life is a stage play by American writer Alexander Dinelaris Jr. that explores themes of love, trauma, and emotional paralysis in contemporary New York City.
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C.
The Gazebo (play)
The Gazebo is a 1958 Broadway mystery-comedy play, co-written by Alec Coppel and Leueen MacGrath, about a television writer who tries to dispose of a blackmailer’s body in his backyard gazebo with farcical consequences.
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D.
The Dove (play)
The Dove is a stage play that gained prominence as the source material for the 1927 silent film adaptation of the same name.
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E.
The White Lioness (play adaptation)
The White Lioness (play adaptation) is a stage dramatization of Henning Mankell’s crime novel that follows Inspector Kurt Wallander as he uncovers a conspiracy linking a Swedish disappearance to political violence in post-apartheid South Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
She’s Working Her Way Through College