DuBarry Was a Lady
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DuBarry Was a Lady is a 1939 Broadway musical comedy with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, known for its farcical plot involving a nightclub hat-check man who dreams he is King Louis XV.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Du Barry Was a Lady | 2 |
| Du Barry Was a Lady (1943 film) | 2 |
| DuBarry Was a Lady canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1005660 — 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: DuBarry Was a Lady Context triple: [Cole Porter, notableWork, DuBarry Was a Lady]
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A.
Her Majesty
Her Majesty is the formal royal style used to address or refer to a reigning queen such as Anne, Queen of Great Britain.
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B.
The Rose
The Rose is a 1979 musical drama film starring Bette Midler as a self-destructive rock singer, widely acclaimed for her powerful performance and the hit title song.
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C.
An American Lady
"An American Lady" is a written work associated with Jennie Jerome, better known as Lady Randolph Churchill, reflecting her experiences and perspective as a prominent American-born figure in British high society.
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D.
Magnificent Obsession
Magnificent Obsession is a 1954 romantic drama film, based on Lloyd C. Douglas’s novel, known for its themes of redemption and self-sacrifice and for earning Jane Wyman an Academy Award nomination.
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E.
The Lady of Pleasure
The Lady of Pleasure is a Caroline-era comedy play by James Shirley that satirizes the excesses and moral corruption of the English aristocracy.
- 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: DuBarry Was a Lady Target entity description: DuBarry Was a Lady is a 1939 Broadway musical comedy with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, known for its farcical plot involving a nightclub hat-check man who dreams he is King Louis XV.
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A.
Her Majesty
Her Majesty is the formal royal style used to address or refer to a reigning queen such as Anne, Queen of Great Britain.
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B.
The Rose
The Rose is a 1979 musical drama film starring Bette Midler as a self-destructive rock singer, widely acclaimed for her powerful performance and the hit title song.
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C.
An American Lady
"An American Lady" is a written work associated with Jennie Jerome, better known as Lady Randolph Churchill, reflecting her experiences and perspective as a prominent American-born figure in British high society.
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D.
Magnificent Obsession
Magnificent Obsession is a 1954 romantic drama film, based on Lloyd C. Douglas’s novel, known for its themes of redemption and self-sacrifice and for earning Jane Wyman an Academy Award nomination.
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E.
The Lady of Pleasure
The Lady of Pleasure is a Caroline-era comedy play by James Shirley that satirizes the excesses and moral corruption of the English aristocracy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: DuBarry Was a Lady Description of subject: DuBarry Was a Lady is a 1939 Broadway musical comedy with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, known for its farcical plot involving a nightclub hat-check man who dreams he is King Louis XV.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Du Barry Was a Lady
this entity surface form:
Du Barry Was a Lady (1943 film)
subject surface form:
DuBarry Was a Lady
this entity surface form:
Du Barry Was a Lady (1943 film)
this entity surface form:
Du Barry Was a Lady