Our American Cousin
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Our American Cousin is an 1858 three-act farce by Tom Taylor, best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Our American Cousin canonical | 26 |
| Performance of Our American Cousin | 2 |
| Our American Cousin (1858 play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1145508 — 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: Our American Cousin Context triple: [Our American Cousin, hasTitle, Our American Cousin]
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A.
The Jerk
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film starring Steve Martin as a naive, eccentric man whose rags-to-riches-to-rags journey showcases his signature absurdist humor.
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B.
The Great McGinty
The Great McGinty is a 1940 political satire film written and directed by Preston Sturges, notable for its sharp, comedic take on corruption and machine politics.
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C.
Tootsie
Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film in which Dustin Hoffman plays an out-of-work actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a role, leading to unexpected fame and complications.
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D.
My Wife and I
"My Wife and I" is a lesser-known domestic and social novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores marriage, morality, and middle-class life in the 19th century.
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E.
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Man Who Came to Dinner is a classic 1939 Broadway comedy play, co-written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, about an acerbic radio personality whose injury-induced stay with a Midwestern family wreaks hilarious havoc.
- 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: Our American Cousin Target entity description: Our American Cousin is an 1858 three-act farce by Tom Taylor, best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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A.
The Jerk
The Jerk is a 1979 American comedy film starring Steve Martin as a naive, eccentric man whose rags-to-riches-to-rags journey showcases his signature absurdist humor.
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B.
The Great McGinty
The Great McGinty is a 1940 political satire film written and directed by Preston Sturges, notable for its sharp, comedic take on corruption and machine politics.
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C.
Tootsie
Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film in which Dustin Hoffman plays an out-of-work actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a role, leading to unexpected fame and complications.
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D.
My Wife and I
"My Wife and I" is a lesser-known domestic and social novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores marriage, morality, and middle-class life in the 19th century.
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E.
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Man Who Came to Dinner is a classic 1939 Broadway comedy play, co-written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, about an acerbic radio personality whose injury-induced stay with a Midwestern family wreaks hilarious havoc.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Our American Cousin Description of subject: Our American Cousin is an 1858 three-act farce by Tom Taylor, best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Our American Cousin
this entity surface form:
Our American Cousin (1858 play)
subject surface form:
Tom Taylor
subject surface form:
Abraham Lincoln
this entity surface form:
Performance of Our American Cousin
subject surface form:
John Wilkes Booth
this entity surface form:
Performance of Our American Cousin