The Wiz (film)
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The Wiz is a 1978 musical fantasy film adaptation of the Broadway show reimagining The Wizard of Oz with an African-American cast, starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Wiz | 10 |
| The Wiz (1978 film) | 1 |
| The Wiz (film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2294329 — 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 Wiz (film) Context triple: [Diana Ross, notableWork, The Wiz (film)]
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The Wiz Live!
The Wiz Live! is a televised musical adaptation of the Broadway show "The Wiz," featuring an all-star cast and live performances that reimagine "The Wizard of Oz" with an African-American cultural perspective.
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Wicked (musical)
Wicked is a hit Broadway musical that reimagines the backstory of the witches from "The Wizard of Oz," featuring music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman.
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Sarafina!
Sarafina! is a 1992 South African musical drama film about a young girl’s coming-of-age during the Soweto uprising against apartheid.
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Oz the Great and Powerful
Oz the Great and Powerful is a 2013 fantasy adventure film that serves as a prequel to L. Frank Baum’s Oz stories, exploring the origins of the Wizard of Oz.
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E.
Black Nativity
Black Nativity is a 2013 musical drama film adaptation of Langston Hughes’ gospel play, featuring a modern retelling of the Nativity story through music and an African-American family’s holiday struggles.
- 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 Wiz (film) Target entity description: The Wiz is a 1978 musical fantasy film adaptation of the Broadway show reimagining The Wizard of Oz with an African-American cast, starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.
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A.
The Wiz Live!
The Wiz Live! is a televised musical adaptation of the Broadway show "The Wiz," featuring an all-star cast and live performances that reimagine "The Wizard of Oz" with an African-American cultural perspective.
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B.
Wicked (musical)
Wicked is a hit Broadway musical that reimagines the backstory of the witches from "The Wizard of Oz," featuring music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman.
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C.
Sarafina!
Sarafina! is a 1992 South African musical drama film about a young girl’s coming-of-age during the Soweto uprising against apartheid.
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D.
Oz the Great and Powerful
Oz the Great and Powerful is a 2013 fantasy adventure film that serves as a prequel to L. Frank Baum’s Oz stories, exploring the origins of the Wizard of Oz.
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E.
Black Nativity
Black Nativity is a 2013 musical drama film adaptation of Langston Hughes’ gospel play, featuring a modern retelling of the Nativity story through music and an African-American family’s holiday struggles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Wiz (film) Description of subject: The Wiz is a 1978 musical fantasy film adaptation of the Broadway show reimagining The Wizard of Oz with an African-American cast, starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.
Referenced by (12)
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