Pick the Winner
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Pick the Winner is a short story by Damon Runyon that introduced characters and situations later expanded into the musical Guys and Dolls.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pick the Winner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5398181 — 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: Pick the Winner Context triple: [Guys and Dolls, basedOn, Pick the Winner]
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A.
It Pays to be a Winner
"It Pays to be a Winner" is a motivational slogan used within the Navy SEALs community to emphasize relentless effort, competition, and the tangible rewards of superior performance.
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B.
The Winner
The Winner is a suspense thriller novel by David Baldacci about a young woman entangled in a deadly conspiracy after being offered a rigged lottery win.
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C.
Win, Lose or Draw
Win, Lose or Draw is a television game show in which teams compete to guess phrases and titles from drawings made by their teammates.
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D.
Win, Lose or Draw
"Win, Lose or Draw" is a 1975 studio album by the Allman Brothers Band that blends Southern rock, blues, and jazz influences during a turbulent period in the group's history.
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E.
Winner's Circle
Winner's Circle is the high-stakes final round of the game show "The $100,000 Pyramid," where contestants attempt to guess categories to win the top prize.
- 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: Pick the Winner Target entity description: Pick the Winner is a short story by Damon Runyon that introduced characters and situations later expanded into the musical Guys and Dolls.
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A.
It Pays to be a Winner
"It Pays to be a Winner" is a motivational slogan used within the Navy SEALs community to emphasize relentless effort, competition, and the tangible rewards of superior performance.
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B.
The Winner
The Winner is a suspense thriller novel by David Baldacci about a young woman entangled in a deadly conspiracy after being offered a rigged lottery win.
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C.
Win, Lose or Draw
Win, Lose or Draw is a television game show in which teams compete to guess phrases and titles from drawings made by their teammates.
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D.
Win, Lose or Draw
"Win, Lose or Draw" is a 1975 studio album by the Allman Brothers Band that blends Southern rock, blues, and jazz influences during a turbulent period in the group's history.
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E.
Winner's Circle
Winner's Circle is the high-stakes final round of the game show "The $100,000 Pyramid," where contestants attempt to guess categories to win the top prize.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American musical theatre history
ⓘ
Broadway milieu ⓘ |
| author | Damon Runyon ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Damon Runyon ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Guys and Dolls universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Guys and Dolls
|
| genre |
fiction
ⓘ
humorous fiction ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | stage musical Guys and Dolls ⓘ |
| hasSetting | New York City ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
gambling
ⓘ
romance ⓘ underworld life ⓘ |
| influencedWork | Guys and Dolls ⓘ |
| introduced |
characters later used in Guys and Dolls
ⓘ
situations later used in Guys and Dolls ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | American popular fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | first-person vernacular ⓘ |
| partOf | Damon Runyon’s Broadway stories corpus ⓘ |
| periodOfPublication | 20th century ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | horse racing and betting ⓘ |
| tone |
comic
ⓘ
ironic ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Pick the Winner Description of subject: Pick the Winner is a short story by Damon Runyon that introduced characters and situations later expanded into the musical Guys and Dolls.
Referenced by (1)
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