The Bad Man (play)
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The Bad Man (play) is a 1920 stage comedy-drama by Porter Emerson Browne about a notorious Mexican bandit whose antics upend the lives of ranchers on the U.S.–Mexico border and which inspired multiple film adaptations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Bad Man (play) canonical | 1 |
| The Bad Man (stage play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17868243 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: The Bad Man (play) Context triple: [The Bad Man (1941 film), basedOn, The Bad Man (play)]
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The Redhead (play)
The Redhead is a stage play that served as the source material for the musical "Redhead."
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B.
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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A Good Play
"A Good Play" is a children's poem by Robert Louis Stevenson that charmingly depicts imaginative play and adventure from a child's perspective.
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D.
The Enemy (play)
The Enemy is a 1925 anti-war stage play by Channing Pollock that explores the human cost of World War I through the intertwined lives of families on opposing sides of the conflict.
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E.
The Woodsman (play)
The Woodsman (play) is a stage adaptation that explores the backstory of the Tin Woodman from L. Frank Baum’s Oz universe through minimal dialogue, physical theater, and puppetry.
- 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 Bad Man (play) Target entity description: The Bad Man (play) is a 1920 stage comedy-drama by Porter Emerson Browne about a notorious Mexican bandit whose antics upend the lives of ranchers on the U.S.–Mexico border and which inspired multiple film adaptations.
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A.
The Redhead (play)
The Redhead is a stage play that served as the source material for the musical "Redhead."
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B.
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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C.
A Good Play
"A Good Play" is a children's poem by Robert Louis Stevenson that charmingly depicts imaginative play and adventure from a child's perspective.
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D.
The Enemy (play)
The Enemy is a 1925 anti-war stage play by Channing Pollock that explores the human cost of World War I through the intertwined lives of families on opposing sides of the conflict.
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E.
The Woodsman (play)
The Woodsman (play) is a stage adaptation that explores the backstory of the Tin Woodman from L. Frank Baum’s Oz universe through minimal dialogue, physical theater, and puppetry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Bad Man (play)