The Shop Around the Corner
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The Shop Around the Corner is a classic 1940 romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, celebrated for its witty dialogue and tender portrayal of anonymous pen-pal lovers who unknowingly work together in the same shop.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1271891 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Shop Around the Corner Context triple: [James Stewart, notableWork, The Shop Around the Corner]
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The Philadelphia Story
The Philadelphia Story is a classic 1939 romantic comedy play by Philip Barry, best known through its acclaimed 1940 film adaptation starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and James Stewart.
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The Most Happy Fella
The Most Happy Fella is a 1956 Broadway musical by Frank Loesser, known for its operatic score and romantic story set in California’s Napa Valley.
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Ninotchka
Ninotchka is a classic 1939 romantic comedy film starring Greta Garbo, celebrated for its witty script and satirical take on Soviet–Western relations.
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Bringing Up Baby
Bringing Up Baby is a classic 1938 screwball comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, renowned for its fast-paced farce, witty dialogue, and influential place in Hollywood comedy history.
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The Lady Is a Tramp
"The Lady Is a Tramp" is a popular show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical "Babes in Arms," later becoming a jazz and pop standard widely recorded by major artists.
- 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 Shop Around the Corner Target entity description: The Shop Around the Corner is a classic 1940 romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, celebrated for its witty dialogue and tender portrayal of anonymous pen-pal lovers who unknowingly work together in the same shop.
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A.
The Philadelphia Story
The Philadelphia Story is a classic 1939 romantic comedy play by Philip Barry, best known through its acclaimed 1940 film adaptation starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and James Stewart.
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B.
The Most Happy Fella
The Most Happy Fella is a 1956 Broadway musical by Frank Loesser, known for its operatic score and romantic story set in California’s Napa Valley.
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C.
Ninotchka
Ninotchka is a classic 1939 romantic comedy film starring Greta Garbo, celebrated for its witty script and satirical take on Soviet–Western relations.
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D.
Bringing Up Baby
Bringing Up Baby is a classic 1938 screwball comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, renowned for its fast-paced farce, witty dialogue, and influential place in Hollywood comedy history.
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E.
The Lady Is a Tramp
"The Lady Is a Tramp" is a popular show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical "Babes in Arms," later becoming a jazz and pop standard widely recorded by major artists.
- 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: The Shop Around the Corner Description of subject: The Shop Around the Corner is a classic 1940 romantic comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, celebrated for its witty dialogue and tender portrayal of anonymous pen-pal lovers who unknowingly work together in the same shop.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Shop Around the Corner (1940 film)
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You've Got Mail
subject surface form:
You've Got Mail
this entity surface form:
The Shop Around the Corner (screenplay)
this entity surface form:
The Shop Around the Corner (1940 film)
this entity surface form:
The Shop Around the Corner (film and screenplay)
this entity surface form:
The Shop Around the Corner (film adaptation)
this entity surface form:
The Shop Around the Corner (adaptations)
this entity surface form:
The Shop Around the Corner (film, screenplay, adaptations)
this entity surface form:
The Shop Around the Corner (1940 film)
this entity surface form:
The Shop Around the Corner (1940 film)