Mame
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Mame is the flamboyant, free-spirited title character of the stage musical "Mame," known for her larger-than-life personality and unconventional approach to life and family.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mame canonical | 9 |
| Auntie Mame | 6 |
| Mame (1966 musical) | 2 |
| Mame (stage musical) | 2 |
| Mame (1974 film musical) | 1 |
| Mame (Broadway musical) | 1 |
| “Mame” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2546986 — 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: Mame Context triple: [Mame (stage role), hasName, Mame]
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A.
You Can't Take It with You
You Can't Take It with You is a Pulitzer Prize–winning 1936 comedic play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman about an eccentric family whose free-spirited lifestyle clashes with conventional society.
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B.
My Mammy
"My Mammy" is a popular early 20th-century American song closely associated with Al Jolson and classic vaudeville and film performances.
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C.
Meet Me in St. Louis
Meet Me in St. Louis is a classic 1944 American musical film set in early 20th-century St. Louis, following the lives and romances of the Smith family in the lead-up to the 1904 World's Fair.
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D.
Adam's Rib
Adam's Rib is a classic 1949 American romantic comedy film starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn as married lawyers who oppose each other in a high-profile court case about gender equality.
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E.
The Barkleys of Broadway
The Barkleys of Broadway is a 1949 MGM musical film that reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their only Technicolor feature together, blending song, dance, and comedy in a backstage showbiz story.
- 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: Mame Target entity description: Mame is the flamboyant, free-spirited title character of the stage musical "Mame," known for her larger-than-life personality and unconventional approach to life and family.
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A.
You Can't Take It with You
You Can't Take It with You is a Pulitzer Prize–winning 1936 comedic play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman about an eccentric family whose free-spirited lifestyle clashes with conventional society.
-
B.
My Mammy
"My Mammy" is a popular early 20th-century American song closely associated with Al Jolson and classic vaudeville and film performances.
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C.
Meet Me in St. Louis
Meet Me in St. Louis is a classic 1944 American musical film set in early 20th-century St. Louis, following the lives and romances of the Smith family in the lead-up to the 1904 World's Fair.
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D.
Adam's Rib
Adam's Rib is a classic 1949 American romantic comedy film starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn as married lawyers who oppose each other in a high-profile court case about gender equality.
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E.
The Barkleys of Broadway
The Barkleys of Broadway is a 1949 MGM musical film that reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their only Technicolor feature together, blending song, dance, and comedy in a backstage showbiz story.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
protagonist ⓘ stage musical character ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Mame
ⓘ
surface form:
Auntie Mame
|
| appearsInWork |
Auntie Mame (play)
ⓘ
surface form:
Auntie Mame (novel)
Auntie Mame (play) ⓘ
surface form:
Auntie Mame (stage play)
Mame self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mame (stage musical)
|
| basedOn |
Auntie Mame (screenplay adaptation)
ⓘ
surface form:
Auntie Mame (novel)
|
| basedOnCharacterFrom | Auntie Mame (play) ⓘ |
| catchphraseAssociated | “Life is a banquet and most poor sons-of-bitches are starving to death.” ⓘ |
| centralThemeInvolving |
celebration of life
ⓘ
family ⓘ nonconformity ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
extravagant
ⓘ
flamboyant ⓘ free-spirited ⓘ larger-than-life ⓘ unconventional ⓘ warm-hearted ⓘ witty ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Jerome Lawrence
ⓘ
Patrick Dennis ⓘ Robert E. Lee Jr. ⓘ
surface form:
Robert E. Lee
|
| culturalRole |
icon of theatrical camp
ⓘ
symbol of unconventional family life ⓘ |
| familyRole | aunt ⓘ |
| fullName | Mame Dennis ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
musical theatre ⓘ |
| guardianOf | Patrick Dennis (character) ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Mame self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| influencesCharacterOf | Patrick Dennis (character) ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableSongAssociated |
“It’s Today”
ⓘ
Mame self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
“Mame”
“Open a New Window” ⓘ “We Need a Little Christmas” ⓘ |
| occupation | socialite ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Angela Lansbury
ⓘ
Bea Arthur ⓘ
surface form:
Bea Arthur (in related stage/film works, supporting role context)
Lucille Ball ⓘ
surface form:
Lucille Ball (in film adaptation of Mame)
|
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFictionalSetting |
1920s
ⓘ
Great Depression ⓘ |
| titleCharacterOf |
Mame
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Mame (1966 musical)
Mame self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mame (stage musical)
|
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: Mame Description of subject: Mame is the flamboyant, free-spirited title character of the stage musical "Mame," known for her larger-than-life personality and unconventional approach to life and family.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mame (Broadway musical)
this entity surface form:
Auntie Mame
this entity surface form:
Auntie Mame
this entity surface form:
Auntie Mame
this entity surface form:
Auntie Mame
this entity surface form:
Auntie Mame
this entity surface form:
Mame (1966 musical)
this entity surface form:
Mame (1974 film musical)
subject surface form:
Mame Dennis
subject surface form:
Mame Dennis
this entity surface form:
Mame (stage musical)
subject surface form:
Mame Dennis
this entity surface form:
Mame (1966 musical)
subject surface form:
Mame Dennis
this entity surface form:
Mame (stage musical)
subject surface form:
Mame Dennis
this entity surface form:
“Mame”