Grand Hotel (play)
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Grand Hotel (play) is a stage adaptation of Vicki Baum’s novel about the intersecting lives of guests and staff in a luxurious Berlin hotel during the Weimar era.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Grand Hotel (play) canonical | 2 |
| Grand Hotel (Broadway musical, producer) | 1 |
| Grand Hotel (pre-Broadway engagement) | 1 |
| Grand Hotel (stage musical, book) | 1 |
| Grand Hotel (stage production) | 1 |
| drama of Grand Hotel | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7345083 — 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: Grand Hotel (play) Context triple: [Grand Hotel, adaptationOf, Grand Hotel (play)]
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A.
Dodsworth (play)
Dodsworth is a 1934 stage adaptation by Sidney Howard of Sinclair Lewis's novel, focusing on the disintegration of a middle-aged American couple's marriage during their travels in Europe.
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B.
Harvey (play)
Harvey (play) is a 1944 Pulitzer Prize–winning stage comedy by Mary Chase about a genial man whose best friend is an invisible six-foot-tall rabbit.
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C.
Terra Nova (play)
Terra Nova is a stage play by Ted Tally that dramatizes Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Antarctic expedition, blending historical fact with psychological exploration.
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D.
La locandiera (play)
La locandiera is an 18th-century Italian comedy by Carlo Goldoni that centers on a clever innkeeper who skillfully manipulates her suitors, and is considered one of his most famous and frequently performed plays.
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E.
The Women (play)
The Women is a 1936 satirical comedy play by Clare Boothe Luce that portrays the lives, rivalries, and romantic entanglements of a group of wealthy New York women, notable for its all-female cast.
- 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: Grand Hotel (play) Target entity description: Grand Hotel (play) is a stage adaptation of Vicki Baum’s novel about the intersecting lives of guests and staff in a luxurious Berlin hotel during the Weimar era.
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A.
Dodsworth (play)
Dodsworth is a 1934 stage adaptation by Sidney Howard of Sinclair Lewis's novel, focusing on the disintegration of a middle-aged American couple's marriage during their travels in Europe.
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B.
Harvey (play)
Harvey (play) is a 1944 Pulitzer Prize–winning stage comedy by Mary Chase about a genial man whose best friend is an invisible six-foot-tall rabbit.
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C.
Terra Nova (play)
Terra Nova is a stage play by Ted Tally that dramatizes Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Antarctic expedition, blending historical fact with psychological exploration.
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D.
La locandiera (play)
La locandiera is an 18th-century Italian comedy by Carlo Goldoni that centers on a clever innkeeper who skillfully manipulates her suitors, and is considered one of his most famous and frequently performed plays.
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E.
The Women (play)
The Women is a 1936 satirical comedy play by Clare Boothe Luce that portrays the lives, rivalries, and romantic entanglements of a group of wealthy New York women, notable for its all-female cast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | stage play ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Grand Hotel (novel)
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Vicki Baum ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| depicts | Weimar-era Berlin society ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
aging ballerina
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doctor ⓘ hotel staff ⓘ impoverished baron ⓘ industrialist ⓘ stenographer ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
class differences
ⓘ
economic insecurity ⓘ loneliness ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ social change in Weimar Berlin ⓘ transience of life ⓘ urban modernity ⓘ |
| language |
English
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German ⓘ |
| mainSubject | intersecting lives of hotel guests and staff ⓘ |
| medium | theatre ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | ensemble cast ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | ensemble perspective ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | multiple intersecting storylines ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Berlin ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Weimar Republic ⓘ |
| settingPlace | luxury hotel ⓘ |
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: Grand Hotel (play) Description of subject: Grand Hotel (play) is a stage adaptation of Vicki Baum’s novel about the intersecting lives of guests and staff in a luxurious Berlin hotel during the Weimar era.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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