Broadway musical "Best Foot Forward"
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"Best Foot Forward" is a 1941 Broadway musical comedy, with music and lyrics by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, about a prep-school boy who invites a movie star to his prom, leading to romantic and comedic chaos.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Best Foot Forward (musical) | 1 |
| Broadway musical "Best Foot Forward" canonical | 1 |
| Broadway stage musical "Best Foot Forward" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6416753 — 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: Broadway musical "Best Foot Forward" Context triple: [Hugh Martin, workedOn, Broadway musical "Best Foot Forward"]
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A.
Broadway musical "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever"
"On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" is a Broadway musical that blends romance, reincarnation, and psychic phenomena, best known for its lush Burton Lane–Alan Jay Lerner score and later revivals featuring stars like Harry Connick Jr.
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B.
Broadway musical "Copper and Brass"
"Copper and Brass" is a lesser-known Broadway musical chiefly remembered today for featuring actress and comedian Nancy Walker in its cast.
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C.
Broadway musical Jubilee
"Jubilee" is a 1935 Broadway musical comedy with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, noted for introducing several of his classic songs.
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D.
Broadway production "Too Many Girls"
The Broadway production "Too Many Girls" is a 1939 musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, best known for its collegiate setting and for launching several performers who later appeared in its 1940 film adaptation.
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E.
Broadway musical "Do Re Mi"
The Broadway musical "Do Re Mi" is a 1960 Jule Styne–composed musical comedy about a small-time con man in the jukebox business, best known for its lively score and original production featuring stars like Nancy Walker and Phil Silvers.
- 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: Broadway musical "Best Foot Forward" Target entity description: "Best Foot Forward" is a 1941 Broadway musical comedy, with music and lyrics by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, about a prep-school boy who invites a movie star to his prom, leading to romantic and comedic chaos.
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A.
Broadway musical "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever"
"On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" is a Broadway musical that blends romance, reincarnation, and psychic phenomena, best known for its lush Burton Lane–Alan Jay Lerner score and later revivals featuring stars like Harry Connick Jr.
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B.
Broadway musical "Copper and Brass"
"Copper and Brass" is a lesser-known Broadway musical chiefly remembered today for featuring actress and comedian Nancy Walker in its cast.
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C.
Broadway musical Jubilee
"Jubilee" is a 1935 Broadway musical comedy with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, noted for introducing several of his classic songs.
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D.
Broadway production "Too Many Girls"
The Broadway production "Too Many Girls" is a 1939 musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, best known for its collegiate setting and for launching several performers who later appeared in its 1940 film adaptation.
-
E.
Broadway musical "Do Re Mi"
The Broadway musical "Do Re Mi" is a 1960 Jule Styne–composed musical comedy about a small-time con man in the jukebox business, best known for its lively score and original production featuring stars like Nancy Walker and Phil Silvers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway musical
ⓘ
musical comedy ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| firstPerformanceDate | 1941 ⓘ |
| genre | musical comedy ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
movie star
ⓘ
prep-school boy ⓘ |
| hasComposerLyricistTeam | Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
celebrity culture
ⓘ
prom night ⓘ teenage romance ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricsBy |
Hugh Martin
ⓘ
Ralph Blane ⓘ |
| medium | stage ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Hugh Martin
ⓘ
Ralph Blane ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
comedic chaos
ⓘ
romantic chaos ⓘ |
| period | 1940s American musical theatre ⓘ |
| productionType | Broadway ⓘ |
| setting | American prep school ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | prep-school boy invites a movie star to his prom ⓘ |
| workTitle | Best Foot Forward ⓘ |
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: Broadway musical "Best Foot Forward" Description of subject: "Best Foot Forward" is a 1941 Broadway musical comedy, with music and lyrics by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, about a prep-school boy who invites a movie star to his prom, leading to romantic and comedic chaos.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "Best Foot Forward" (1943)
linked to: Broadway musical "Best Foot Forward"
subject linked to:
film "Best Foot Forward" (1943)
linked to: Broadway musical "Best Foot Forward"