Whoopee!
E490493
Whoopee! is a 1928 Broadway musical comedy (later adapted into a 1930 film) known for its starring role by Eddie Cantor and its lively, vaudeville-style humor and songs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Whoopee! canonical | 4 |
| “Whoopee!” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5056801 — 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: Whoopee! Context triple: [Eddie Cantor, notableWork, Whoopee!]
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A.
Woohoo
"Woohoo" is an energetic, genre-blending pop track by Christina Aguilera featuring Nicki Minaj, known for its playful lyrics and bold, futuristic production.
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B.
Makin’ Whoopee
"Makin’ Whoopee" is a popular jazz and pop standard, often performed as a playful, romantic duet and widely recorded by notable vocalists.
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C.
Whoa
"Whoa" is a song released as a single from the work titled "The Naked Truth."
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D.
Smilin'
"Smilin'" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Gideon, known for its upbeat tone and emotive, melodic pop style.
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E.
Heebie Jeebies
"Heebie Jeebies" is a 1926 jazz recording by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, famous for popularizing scat singing in mainstream jazz.
- 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: Whoopee! Target entity description: Whoopee! is a 1928 Broadway musical comedy (later adapted into a 1930 film) known for its starring role by Eddie Cantor and its lively, vaudeville-style humor and songs.
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A.
Woohoo
"Woohoo" is an energetic, genre-blending pop track by Christina Aguilera featuring Nicki Minaj, known for its playful lyrics and bold, futuristic production.
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B.
Makin’ Whoopee
"Makin’ Whoopee" is a popular jazz and pop standard, often performed as a playful, romantic duet and widely recorded by notable vocalists.
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C.
Whoa
"Whoa" is a song released as a single from the work titled "The Naked Truth."
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D.
Smilin'
"Smilin'" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Gideon, known for its upbeat tone and emotive, melodic pop style.
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E.
Heebie Jeebies
"Heebie Jeebies" is a 1926 jazz recording by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, famous for popularizing scat singing in mainstream jazz.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway musical
ⓘ
musical film ⓘ stage musical ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Nervous Wreck
ⓘ
Whoopee! ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
musical comedy ⓘ vaudeville-style ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | Whoopee! (1930 film) ⓘ |
| hasFilmAdaptationYear | 1930 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | theatre ⓘ |
| notableCastMember | Eddie Cantor ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
lively songs
ⓘ
vaudeville-style humor ⓘ |
| originalBroadwayOpeningDate | 1928 ⓘ |
| originalBroadwayOpeningYear | 1928 ⓘ |
| productionType | Broadway production ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1930 ⓘ |
| setting |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| starred | Eddie Cantor ⓘ |
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: Whoopee! Description of subject: Whoopee! is a 1928 Broadway musical comedy (later adapted into a 1930 film) known for its starring role by Eddie Cantor and its lively, vaudeville-style humor and songs.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.