The Big Broadcast of 1937
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The Big Broadcast of 1937 is a 1936 musical comedy film featuring Gracie Allen and other popular radio and vaudeville stars in a revue-style story built around a struggling radio station.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Big Broadcast of 1937 canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7237102 — 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)
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Target entity: The Big Broadcast of 1937 Context triple: [Gracie Allen, notableWork, The Big Broadcast of 1937]
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The Big Broadcast of 1936
The Big Broadcast of 1936 is a 1935 American musical comedy film featuring an ensemble cast of radio and musical stars, known for its variety-show format and early use of big-band performances on screen.
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The Big Broadcast of 1938
The Big Broadcast of 1938 is a Paramount musical comedy film best known for introducing the classic song "Thanks for the Memory," performed by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross.
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The Great American Broadcast
The Great American Broadcast is a 1941 musical comedy film about the early days of radio, featuring Gary Merrill among its cast.
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The Mercury Theatre on the Air
The Mercury Theatre on the Air was a 1938 American radio drama series created by Orson Welles and John Houseman, best known for its innovative, cinematic adaptations of literary classics and the infamous "War of the Worlds" broadcast.
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The Alcoa Hour
The Alcoa Hour was an American live television anthology drama series that aired on NBC in the 1950s, featuring original plays and adaptations sponsored by the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa).
- 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 Big Broadcast of 1937 Target entity description: The Big Broadcast of 1937 is a 1936 musical comedy film featuring Gracie Allen and other popular radio and vaudeville stars in a revue-style story built around a struggling radio station.
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A.
The Big Broadcast of 1936
The Big Broadcast of 1936 is a 1935 American musical comedy film featuring an ensemble cast of radio and musical stars, known for its variety-show format and early use of big-band performances on screen.
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B.
The Big Broadcast of 1938
The Big Broadcast of 1938 is a Paramount musical comedy film best known for introducing the classic song "Thanks for the Memory," performed by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross.
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C.
The Great American Broadcast
The Great American Broadcast is a 1941 musical comedy film about the early days of radio, featuring Gary Merrill among its cast.
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D.
The Mercury Theatre on the Air
The Mercury Theatre on the Air was a 1938 American radio drama series created by Orson Welles and John Houseman, best known for its innovative, cinematic adaptations of literary classics and the infamous "War of the Worlds" broadcast.
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E.
The Alcoa Hour
The Alcoa Hour was an American live television anthology drama series that aired on NBC in the 1950s, featuring original plays and adaptations sponsored by the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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 Big Broadcast of 1937 Description of subject: The Big Broadcast of 1937 is a 1936 musical comedy film featuring Gracie Allen and other popular radio and vaudeville stars in a revue-style story built around a struggling radio station.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.