The Way of the World (stage)
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The Way of the World (stage) is a theatrical production of William Congreve’s classic Restoration comedy, known for its witty dialogue and intricate plot about love, marriage, and social manners.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Way of the World | 4 |
| The Way of the World (stage) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2250275 — 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 Way of the World (stage) Context triple: [Alison Steadman, notableWork, The Way of the World (stage)]
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A.
That's How You Like It
"That's How You Like It" is an R&B song by Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z from her debut solo album "Dangerously in Love."
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B.
Harlequinade
Harlequinade is a one-act play by Terence Rattigan, often performed alongside *The Browning Version*, that offers a light, farcical backstage comedy contrasting with its companion piece’s serious tone.
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C.
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night is a comedic play by William Shakespeare that centers on mistaken identities, romantic entanglements, and themes of gender and disguise.
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D.
Measure for Measure
Measure for Measure is a dark comedic play by William Shakespeare that explores themes of justice, morality, and hypocrisy in a corrupt Vienna.
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E.
Lady Windermere’s Fan
Lady Windermere’s Fan is a comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde that satirizes Victorian high society through witty dialogue and a plot centered on scandal, morality, and mistaken identity.
- 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 Way of the World (stage) Target entity description: The Way of the World (stage) is a theatrical production of William Congreve’s classic Restoration comedy, known for its witty dialogue and intricate plot about love, marriage, and social manners.
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A.
That's How You Like It
"That's How You Like It" is an R&B song by Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z from her debut solo album "Dangerously in Love."
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B.
Harlequinade
Harlequinade is a one-act play by Terence Rattigan, often performed alongside *The Browning Version*, that offers a light, farcical backstage comedy contrasting with its companion piece’s serious tone.
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C.
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night is a comedic play by William Shakespeare that centers on mistaken identities, romantic entanglements, and themes of gender and disguise.
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D.
Measure for Measure
Measure for Measure is a dark comedic play by William Shakespeare that explores themes of justice, morality, and hypocrisy in a corrupt Vienna.
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E.
Lady Windermere’s Fan
Lady Windermere’s Fan is a comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde that satirizes Victorian high society through witty dialogue and a plot centered on scandal, morality, and mistaken identity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | theatrical production ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Way of the World (stage)
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Way of the World
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| basedOnWorkAuthor | William Congreve ⓘ |
| genre | Restoration comedy ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
love
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marriage ⓘ social manners ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | stage ⓘ |
| narrativeFeature |
intricate plot
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witty dialogue ⓘ |
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 Way of the World (stage) Description of subject: The Way of the World (stage) is a theatrical production of William Congreve’s classic Restoration comedy, known for its witty dialogue and intricate plot about love, marriage, and social manners.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Way of the World
this entity surface form:
The Way of the World
this entity surface form:
The Way of the World
this entity surface form:
The Way of the World