The Music Man
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The Music Man is a classic American musical by Meredith Willson about a charming con man who poses as a boys’ band organizer in a small Iowa town, ultimately finding redemption through love and community.
All labels observed (25)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T486126 — 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: The Music Man Context triple: [Kermit Bloomgarden, notableWork, The Music Man]
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A.
Meet Me in St. Louis
Meet Me in St. Louis is a classic 1944 American musical film set in early 20th-century St. Louis, following the lives and romances of the Smith family in the lead-up to the 1904 World's Fair.
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B.
Hello, Dolly!
"Hello, Dolly!" is a classic 1964 jazz and pop song, famously performed by Louis Armstrong, that became one of his signature hits and a major crossover success.
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C.
Broadway Melody of 1940
Broadway Melody of 1940 is a classic Hollywood musical film best known for its sophisticated song-and-dance numbers and the celebrated pairing of Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell.
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D.
You Can't Take It with You
You Can't Take It with You is a Pulitzer Prize–winning 1936 comedic play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman about an eccentric family whose free-spirited lifestyle clashes with conventional society.
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The Barkleys of Broadway
The Barkleys of Broadway is a 1949 MGM musical film that reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their only Technicolor feature together, blending song, dance, and comedy in a backstage showbiz story.
- 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: The Music Man Target entity description: The Music Man is a classic American musical by Meredith Willson about a charming con man who poses as a boys’ band organizer in a small Iowa town, ultimately finding redemption through love and community.
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A.
Meet Me in St. Louis
Meet Me in St. Louis is a classic 1944 American musical film set in early 20th-century St. Louis, following the lives and romances of the Smith family in the lead-up to the 1904 World's Fair.
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B.
Hello, Dolly!
"Hello, Dolly!" is a classic 1964 jazz and pop song, famously performed by Louis Armstrong, that became one of his signature hits and a major crossover success.
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C.
Broadway Melody of 1940
Broadway Melody of 1940 is a classic Hollywood musical film best known for its sophisticated song-and-dance numbers and the celebrated pairing of Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell.
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D.
You Can't Take It with You
You Can't Take It with You is a Pulitzer Prize–winning 1936 comedic play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman about an eccentric family whose free-spirited lifestyle clashes with conventional society.
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E.
The Barkleys of Broadway
The Barkleys of Broadway is a 1949 MGM musical film that reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their only Technicolor feature together, blending song, dance, and comedy in a backstage showbiz story.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: The Music Man Description of subject: The Music Man is a classic American musical by Meredith Willson about a charming con man who poses as a boys’ band organizer in a small Iowa town, ultimately finding redemption through love and community.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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The Music Man (2003 television film)
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Shirley Jones
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Shirley Jones
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The Music Man (stage production)
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Shirley Jones
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The Music Man (film)
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Shirley Jones
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The Music Man (stage production)
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The Music Man (1962 film)
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Kermit Bloomgarden
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The Music Man (1962 film)
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The Music Man (2003 television film)
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The Music Man (2000 Broadway revival choreography)
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The Music Man (2002 film, small role)
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The Music Man (1962 film)
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The Music Man (1962 film)
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Broadway musical The Music Man
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The Music Man (1957 Broadway production)
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The Music Man (1957 Broadway musical)
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The Music Man (1957 Broadway production)
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The Music Man (1962 film)
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The Music Man (2003 television film)
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"The Music Man"
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The Music Man (musical)
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The Music Man (1957 stage musical)
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The Music Man (1962 film)
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The Music Man (2003 television film)
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The Music Man (1957 stage musical)
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The Music Man (1962 film)
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The Music Man (2003 television film)
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The Music Man franchise
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The Music Man (1957 musical)
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The Music Man (1962 film)
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The Music Man (2003 television film)