The Piano Lesson (TV film)
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The Piano Lesson is a television film adaptation of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize–winning play about a 1930s African American family torn over whether to sell a heirloom piano carved with their ancestors’ history.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Piano Lesson | 8 |
| The Piano Lesson (Broadway revival, producer) | 1 |
| The Piano Lesson (TV film) canonical | 1 |
| The Piano Lesson (play) | 1 |
| “The Piano Lesson” by August Wilson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Piano Lesson (TV film) Context triple: [Stuart Dryburgh, notableWork, The Piano Lesson (TV film)]
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A.
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is a 1984 play by August Wilson that explores African American identity, migration, and spiritual searching in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse in 1911.
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B.
My Boy Willie
"My Boy Willie" is a traditional military march closely associated with the Royal Tank Regiment of the British Army.
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C.
Dutchman
"Dutchman" is a 1964 one-act play by Amiri Baraka that confronts racism and violence in American society through a tense, symbolic encounter on a New York City subway.
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D.
Fences (2016 film)
Fences (2016 film) is a 2016 drama directed by and starring Denzel Washington, adapted from August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about an African American family in 1950s Pittsburgh.
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E.
King Hedley II
King Hedley II is a drama by August Wilson that forms part of his Pittsburgh Cycle, exploring themes of legacy, violence, and redemption in an African American community in the 1980s.
- 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 Piano Lesson (TV film) Target entity description: The Piano Lesson is a television film adaptation of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize–winning play about a 1930s African American family torn over whether to sell a heirloom piano carved with their ancestors’ history.
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A.
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is a 1984 play by August Wilson that explores African American identity, migration, and spiritual searching in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse in 1911.
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B.
My Boy Willie
"My Boy Willie" is a traditional military march closely associated with the Royal Tank Regiment of the British Army.
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C.
Dutchman
"Dutchman" is a 1964 one-act play by Amiri Baraka that confronts racism and violence in American society through a tense, symbolic encounter on a New York City subway.
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D.
Fences (2016 film)
Fences (2016 film) is a 2016 drama directed by and starring Denzel Washington, adapted from August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about an African American family in 1950s Pittsburgh.
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E.
King Hedley II
King Hedley II is a drama by August Wilson that forms part of his Pittsburgh Cycle, exploring themes of legacy, violence, and redemption in an African American community in the 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television film ⓘ |
| adaptationOfGenre | stage play ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Piano Lesson (TV film)
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Piano Lesson (play)
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| basedOnWorkBy | August Wilson ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
African American experience in the early 20th century
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intergenerational trauma ⓘ migration from the rural South to the urban North ⓘ |
| distributionFormat | TV broadcast ⓘ |
| featuresMotif |
ghosts and hauntings
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music as a link to the past ⓘ property ownership ⓘ |
| featuresObject | carved upright piano ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
television drama ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Avery
ⓘ
Bernice ⓘ
surface form:
Berniece
Boy Willie ⓘ Doaker Charles ⓘ Lymon ⓘ Maretha ⓘ Sutter ⓘ Wining Boy ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext |
African American history
ⓘ
post-slavery United States ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
ⓘ
surface form:
Pittsburgh
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| hasTheme |
ancestral memory
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conflict between economic progress and cultural memory ⓘ family inheritance ⓘ spirituality and the supernatural ⓘ |
| hasWorkAttribute | Pulitzer Prize–winning source material ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
African American family
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cultural heritage ⓘ family conflict ⓘ heirloom piano ⓘ legacy of slavery in the United States ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | dispute over selling a family heirloom piano ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | family home ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A 1930s African American family is torn over whether to sell a heirloom piano carved with their ancestors’ history. ⓘ |
| portrays |
respect for ancestors
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struggle for economic independence ⓘ tension between siblings ⓘ |
| setInTimePeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
| workType | screen adaptation ⓘ |
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Subject: The Piano Lesson (TV film) Description of subject: The Piano Lesson is a television film adaptation of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize–winning play about a 1930s African American family torn over whether to sell a heirloom piano carved with their ancestors’ history.
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The Piano Lesson (Broadway revival, producer)
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The Piano Lesson
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The Piano Lesson (play)
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“The Piano Lesson” by August Wilson
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The Piano Lesson
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The Piano Lesson
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The Piano Lesson
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