The Student Prince
E337047
The Student Prince is a popular operetta set in a romanticized German university town, known for its sentimental story and memorable melodies like "Drink! Drink! Drink!" and "Serenade."
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3229739 — 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 Student Prince Context triple: [Sigmund Romberg, notableWork, The Student Prince]
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A.
The Waltz King
The Waltz King is the nickname of Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, famed for popularizing the Viennese waltz through works like "The Blue Danube."
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B.
Princesse Tam-Tam
Princesse Tam-Tam is a 1935 French film starring Josephine Baker, known for its blend of musical comedy and exoticized colonial fantasy.
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C.
The Merry Widow
The Merry Widow is a 1925 silent romantic drama film directed by Erich von Stroheim, celebrated for its lavish production, darkly comic tone, and influence on early Hollywood cinema.
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D.
Once Upon a Mattress
Once Upon a Mattress is a 1959 Broadway musical comedy, a spoof of "The Princess and the Pea," that helped launch Carol Burnett to stardom.
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E.
Die Fledermaus
Die Fledermaus is a celebrated comic operetta that premiered in 1874 and is renowned for its sparkling waltz melodies, farcical plot, and enduring popularity in the operatic repertoire.
- 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 Student Prince Target entity description: The Student Prince is a popular operetta set in a romanticized German university town, known for its sentimental story and memorable melodies like "Drink! Drink! Drink!" and "Serenade."
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A.
The Waltz King
The Waltz King is the nickname of Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, famed for popularizing the Viennese waltz through works like "The Blue Danube."
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B.
Princesse Tam-Tam
Princesse Tam-Tam is a 1935 French film starring Josephine Baker, known for its blend of musical comedy and exoticized colonial fantasy.
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C.
The Merry Widow
The Merry Widow is a 1925 silent romantic drama film directed by Erich von Stroheim, celebrated for its lavish production, darkly comic tone, and influence on early Hollywood cinema.
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D.
Once Upon a Mattress
Once Upon a Mattress is a 1959 Broadway musical comedy, a spoof of "The Princess and the Pea," that helped launch Carol Burnett to stardom.
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E.
Die Fledermaus
Die Fledermaus is a celebrated comic operetta that premiered in 1874 and is renowned for its sparkling waltz melodies, farcical plot, and enduring popularity in the operatic repertoire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | operetta ⓘ |
| actStructure | four acts ⓘ |
| basedOn | Karl Heinrich, a play by Wilhelm Meyer-Förster ⓘ |
| broadwayClosingYear | 1927 ⓘ |
| broadwayOpeningYear | 1924 ⓘ |
| broadwayRunLength | 608 performances ⓘ |
| broadwayTheatre | Jolson Theatre ⓘ |
| composer | Sigmund Romberg ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre | operetta ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Dr. Engel
ⓘ
Lutz ⓘ Princess Margaret ⓘ The Grand Duke ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation |
German student traditions
ⓘ
beer-drinking songs in popular culture ⓘ |
| hasOrchestrationBy | Sigmund Romberg ⓘ |
| hasSubgenre | romantic operetta ⓘ |
| knownFor |
drinking songs
ⓘ
memorable melodies ⓘ sentimental story ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Dorothy Donnelly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Kathie
ⓘ
Prince Karl Franz ⓘ |
| musicalStyle | late-Romantic operetta ⓘ |
| notableAdaptation |
The Student Prince
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Student Prince (1927 silent film)
The Student Prince self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Student Prince (1937 film)
The Student Prince self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Student Prince (1954 film)
|
| notableSong |
Deep in My Heart
ⓘ
surface form:
Deep in My Heart, Dear
Drink! Drink! Drink! ⓘ Golden Days ⓘ Serenade ⓘ |
| originalBroadwayStar |
Howard Marsh
ⓘ
Ilse Marvenga ⓘ |
| originalPremiereDate | 1924-12-02 ⓘ |
| originalPremiereLocation |
Hammerstein's Theater
ⓘ
surface form:
Jolson Theatre, New York City
|
| plotSummary | A crown prince studies at a German university, falls in love with an innkeeper’s niece, and must ultimately choose duty over love. ⓘ |
| producerOfOriginalBroadwayProduction | J. J. Shubert ⓘ |
| publisherOfVocalScore | G. Schirmer, Inc. ⓘ |
| setting |
Heidelberg
ⓘ
fictional German university town ⓘ |
| theme |
class differences in romance
ⓘ
nostalgia for student life ⓘ romantic love versus royal duty ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| typicalPerformanceLanguage | English ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Student Prince Description of subject: The Student Prince is a popular operetta set in a romanticized German university town, known for its sentimental story and memorable melodies like "Drink! Drink! Drink!" and "Serenade."
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
this entity surface form:
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
subject surface form:
Sigmund Romberg
this entity surface form:
The Student Prince (1927 silent film)
this entity surface form:
The Student Prince (1937 film)
this entity surface form:
The Student Prince (1954 film)
this entity surface form:
The Student Prince (radio adaptation)