College Swing (1938 film)
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College Swing (1938 film) is a 1938 musical comedy film featuring Gracie Allen in a zany college-set story filled with songs, slapstick, and vaudeville-style humor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| College Swing (1938 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7237105 — 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: College Swing (1938 film) Context triple: [Gracie Allen, notableWork, College Swing (1938 film)]
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A.
Girl Crazy (1943 film)
Girl Crazy (1943 film) is a 1943 MGM musical comedy film adaptation of the Gershwin stage musical, best known for starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney with classic songs like "I Got Rhythm."
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B.
Tin Pan Alley (1940 film)
Tin Pan Alley (1940 film) is a 1940 American musical film set in the early 20th-century popular music publishing district, featuring songs, romance, and show business drama.
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C.
Girl Crazy (1950 film)
Girl Crazy (1950 film) is a 1950 MGM musical comedy adaptation of the Gershwin stage musical, starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.
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D.
Fred and Ginger
Fred and Ginger is the popular nickname for Prague’s famously curving, deconstructivist “Dancing House” building, whose twin towers evoke the dynamic motion of dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
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E.
For Me and My Gal
For Me and My Gal is a 1942 American musical film, co-starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly in his screen debut, about vaudeville performers whose careers and romance are affected by World War I.
- 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: College Swing (1938 film) Target entity description: College Swing (1938 film) is a 1938 musical comedy film featuring Gracie Allen in a zany college-set story filled with songs, slapstick, and vaudeville-style humor.
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A.
Girl Crazy (1943 film)
Girl Crazy (1943 film) is a 1943 MGM musical comedy film adaptation of the Gershwin stage musical, best known for starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney with classic songs like "I Got Rhythm."
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B.
Tin Pan Alley (1940 film)
Tin Pan Alley (1940 film) is a 1940 American musical film set in the early 20th-century popular music publishing district, featuring songs, romance, and show business drama.
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C.
Girl Crazy (1950 film)
Girl Crazy (1950 film) is a 1950 MGM musical comedy adaptation of the Gershwin stage musical, starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.
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D.
Fred and Ginger
Fred and Ginger is the popular nickname for Prague’s famously curving, deconstructivist “Dancing House” building, whose twin towers evoke the dynamic motion of dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
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E.
For Me and My Gal
For Me and My Gal is a 1942 American musical film, co-starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly in his screen debut, about vaudeville performers whose careers and romance are affected by World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | story by Ted Lesser ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | William C. Mellor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Raoul Walsh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Ellsworth Hoagland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| features |
slapstick comedy
ⓘ
vaudeville-style humor ⓘ |
| featuresPerformer |
Louis Armstrong
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Martha Raye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
musical comedy ⓘ musical film ⓘ |
| hasSong |
College Swing (title song)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
What Did Romeo Say? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
campus hijinks
ⓘ
college life ⓘ romantic misunderstandings ⓘ |
| musicBy | John Leipold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | early film appearance of Betty Grable ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | William LeBaron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1938-04-01 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1938 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 86 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Francis Martin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lewis R. Foster NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter DeLeon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | college campus ⓘ |
| starring |
Ben Blue
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Betty Grable NERFINISHED ⓘ Bob Hope NERFINISHED ⓘ Edward Everett Horton NERFINISHED ⓘ Edward Nugent NERFINISHED ⓘ Florence George NERFINISHED ⓘ Franklin Pangborn NERFINISHED ⓘ George Burns NERFINISHED ⓘ Gracie Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Whiting NERFINISHED ⓘ Martha Raye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | College Swing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: College Swing (1938 film) Description of subject: College Swing (1938 film) is a 1938 musical comedy film featuring Gracie Allen in a zany college-set story filled with songs, slapstick, and vaudeville-style humor.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.