Once in a Lifetime
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"Once in a Lifetime" is a satirical stage comedy co-written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman that lampoons Hollywood’s chaotic transition from silent films to talkies.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Once in a Lifetime canonical | 14 |
| Once in a Lifetime (Broadway play) | 1 |
| Once in a Lifetime (stage play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T440146 — 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: Once in a Lifetime Context triple: [Moss Hart, notableWork, Once in a Lifetime]
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A.
Time Out of Mind
Time Out of Mind is a critically acclaimed 1997 album by Bob Dylan that marked his late-career renaissance and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
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B.
Twenty Years After
Twenty Years After is Alexandre Dumas’ historical adventure novel that continues the story of d’Artagnan and the three musketeers two decades later amid the turmoil of the Fronde and the English Civil War.
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C.
Born to Run
Born to Run is Bruce Springsteen’s landmark 1975 rock album, celebrated for its anthemic sound, cinematic storytelling, and role in establishing him as a major American rock icon.
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D.
The Joshua Tree
The Joshua Tree is U2’s critically acclaimed 1987 rock album known for its atmospheric sound and politically charged anthems like “With or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.”
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E.
Genie in a Bottle
"Genie in a Bottle" is a 1999 pop song that served as Christina Aguilera's breakout hit, helping to launch her to international fame.
- 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: Once in a Lifetime Target entity description: "Once in a Lifetime" is a satirical stage comedy co-written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman that lampoons Hollywood’s chaotic transition from silent films to talkies.
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A.
Time Out of Mind
Time Out of Mind is a critically acclaimed 1997 album by Bob Dylan that marked his late-career renaissance and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
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B.
Twenty Years After
Twenty Years After is Alexandre Dumas’ historical adventure novel that continues the story of d’Artagnan and the three musketeers two decades later amid the turmoil of the Fronde and the English Civil War.
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C.
Born to Run
Born to Run is Bruce Springsteen’s landmark 1975 rock album, celebrated for its anthemic sound, cinematic storytelling, and role in establishing him as a major American rock icon.
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D.
The Joshua Tree
The Joshua Tree is U2’s critically acclaimed 1987 rock album known for its atmospheric sound and politically charged anthems like “With or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.”
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E.
Genie in a Bottle
"Genie in a Bottle" is a 1999 pop song that served as Christina Aguilera's breakout hit, helping to launch her to international fame.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy play
ⓘ
film adaptation ⓘ satirical play ⓘ stage play ⓘ |
| author |
George S. Kaufman
ⓘ
Moss Hart ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Hollywood’s transition from silent films to talkies
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Once in a Lifetime self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coWriter |
George S. Kaufman
ⓘ
Moss Hart ⓘ |
| firstBroadwayProductionDirector | George S. Kaufman ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
satire ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | Once in a Lifetime (1932 film) ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | theatre ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | transition from silent films to talkies ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
George Lewis
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Herman Glogauer ⓘ Jerry Hyland ⓘ May Daniels ⓘ |
| originalBroadwayTheatre | Music Box Theatre ⓘ |
| setting | Hollywood ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | late 1920s ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Hollywood film industry
ⓘ
transition from silent films to sound films ⓘ |
| tone | satirical ⓘ |
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: Once in a Lifetime Description of subject: "Once in a Lifetime" is a satirical stage comedy co-written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman that lampoons Hollywood’s chaotic transition from silent films to talkies.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Once in a Lifetime (Broadway play)
subject surface form:
Moss Hart
subject surface form:
Once in a Lifetime (1932 film)
subject surface form:
Once in a Lifetime
this entity surface form:
Once in a Lifetime (stage play)