Light Up the Sky (Broadway play)
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Light Up the Sky is a 1948 Broadway comedy by Moss Hart that satirizes the egos and chaos surrounding a new play’s out-of-town tryout.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Light Up the Sky (Broadway play) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T440178 — 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: Light Up the Sky (Broadway play) Context triple: [Moss Hart, notableWork, Light Up the Sky (Broadway play)]
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A.
Footlights
Footlights is the famed Cambridge University theatrical and comedy club known for launching the careers of many prominent British humorists and performers.
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B.
Cavalcade of Lights
Cavalcade of Lights is an annual winter festival in Toronto featuring the official lighting of the city’s Christmas tree, live music, and fireworks at Nathan Phillips Square.
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C.
Limelight
Limelight is a 1952 drama film written, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, in which he portrays a faded music-hall comedian who befriends and mentors a young ballerina.
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D.
The Theatre of Dreams
The Theatre of Dreams is the famous moniker for Manchester United’s iconic Old Trafford stadium, renowned for its rich footballing history and passionate atmosphere.
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E.
The Last Five Years
The Last Five Years is a contemporary two-person musical by Jason Robert Brown that chronicles a couple’s five-year relationship through intersecting, reverse-chronological and forward-chronological narratives.
- 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: Light Up the Sky (Broadway play) Target entity description: Light Up the Sky is a 1948 Broadway comedy by Moss Hart that satirizes the egos and chaos surrounding a new play’s out-of-town tryout.
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A.
Footlights
Footlights is the famed Cambridge University theatrical and comedy club known for launching the careers of many prominent British humorists and performers.
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B.
Cavalcade of Lights
Cavalcade of Lights is an annual winter festival in Toronto featuring the official lighting of the city’s Christmas tree, live music, and fireworks at Nathan Phillips Square.
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C.
Limelight
Limelight is a 1952 drama film written, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, in which he portrays a faded music-hall comedian who befriends and mentors a young ballerina.
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D.
The Theatre of Dreams
The Theatre of Dreams is the famous moniker for Manchester United’s iconic Old Trafford stadium, renowned for its rich footballing history and passionate atmosphere.
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E.
The Last Five Years
The Last Five Years is a contemporary two-person musical by Jason Robert Brown that chronicles a couple’s five-year relationship through intersecting, reverse-chronological and forward-chronological narratives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway play
ⓘ
stage comedy ⓘ |
| author | Moss Hart ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creatorOccupation |
playwright Moss Hart
ⓘ
linked to:
Moss Hart
|
| dramaticForm | three-act comedy ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1948 ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasPart | out-of-town tryout sequence ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
backstage comedy
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satirical ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
artistic ego
ⓘ
backstage chaos ⓘ vagaries of theatrical success ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | adult theatregoers ⓘ |
| isAbout | a new play’s out-of-town opening ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locationOfFirstPerformance | Broadway ⓘ |
| mainSubject | production of a new play ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | creative team of a new play ⓘ |
| originalMedium | stage ⓘ |
| partOf | Moss Hart’s body of theatrical work ⓘ |
| period | mid-20th-century American theatre ⓘ |
| productionType | commercial Broadway production ⓘ |
| satirizes |
chaos of out-of-town tryouts
ⓘ
theatre world egos ⓘ |
| setting | hotel suite during an out-of-town tryout ⓘ |
| theatricalTradition | American commercial theatre ⓘ |
| workChronologyOfAuthor | later-career play by Moss Hart ⓘ |
| writer | Moss Hart ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Light Up the Sky (Broadway play) Description of subject: Light Up the Sky is a 1948 Broadway comedy by Moss Hart that satirizes the egos and chaos surrounding a new play’s out-of-town tryout.
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