The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer is a 1947 romantic comedy film best known for pairing Cary Grant with Myrna Loy and Shirley Temple in a lighthearted story about a playboy entangled with a teenage admirer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7656815 — 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 Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer Context triple: [Myrna Loy, notableWork, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer]
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A.
The Seven Year Itch
The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 romantic comedy film best known for Marilyn Monroe’s iconic subway-grate dress scene and its satirical take on mid-century marriage and temptation.
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B.
On the Town
On the Town is a 1944 Broadway musical with music by Leonard Bernstein that follows three sailors on 24-hour shore leave in New York City, later adapted into a popular 1949 film.
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C.
Lady for a Day
Lady for a Day is a 1933 American comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra, based on a Damon Runyon story about a poor street peddler transformed into a society lady.
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D.
The Most Happy Fella
The Most Happy Fella is a 1956 Broadway musical by Frank Loesser, known for its operatic score and romantic story set in California’s Napa Valley.
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E.
Husbands and Wives
Husbands and Wives is a 1992 Woody Allen film, styled as a mock-documentary, that explores the unraveling relationships of two New York couples.
- 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 Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer Target entity description: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer is a 1947 romantic comedy film best known for pairing Cary Grant with Myrna Loy and Shirley Temple in a lighthearted story about a playboy entangled with a teenage admirer.
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A.
The Seven Year Itch
The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 romantic comedy film best known for Marilyn Monroe’s iconic subway-grate dress scene and its satirical take on mid-century marriage and temptation.
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B.
On the Town
On the Town is a 1944 Broadway musical with music by Leonard Bernstein that follows three sailors on 24-hour shore leave in New York City, later adapted into a popular 1949 film.
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C.
Lady for a Day
Lady for a Day is a 1933 American comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra, based on a Damon Runyon story about a poor street peddler transformed into a society lady.
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D.
The Most Happy Fella
The Most Happy Fella is a 1956 Broadway musical by Frank Loesser, known for its operatic score and romantic story set in California’s Napa Valley.
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E.
Husbands and Wives
Husbands and Wives is a 1992 Woody Allen film, styled as a mock-documentary, that explores the unraveling relationships of two New York couples.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay ⓘ |
| awardReceivedBy | Sidney Sheldon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematography | Nicholas Musuraca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Leigh Harline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Irving Reis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributionFormat | theatrical release ⓘ |
| distributor | RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ |
| editor | Frederic Knudtson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
ⓘ
surface form:
Golden Age of Hollywood
|
| featuresCharacterOccupation |
judge
ⓘ
playboy artist ⓘ |
| filmingStudio | RKO Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
romantic comedy ⓘ |
| hasFormat | theatrical film ⓘ |
| hasSetting | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
age difference in relationships
ⓘ
romantic misunderstanding ⓘ teenage infatuation ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Judge Margaret Turner
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Richard Nugent NERFINISHED ⓘ Susan Turner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motionPictureRating | Approved ⓘ |
| notableFor | pairing Cary Grant with Myrna Loy and Shirley Temple ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Cary Grant
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Myrna Loy NERFINISHED ⓘ Shirley Temple NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Dore Schary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | RKO Radio Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1947-09-01 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1947 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 95 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Sidney Sheldon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1940s ⓘ |
| starring |
Cary Grant
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry Davenport NERFINISHED ⓘ Myrna Loy NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ Rudy Vallée NERFINISHED ⓘ Shirley Temple 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: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer Description of subject: The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer is a 1947 romantic comedy film best known for pairing Cary Grant with Myrna Loy and Shirley Temple in a lighthearted story about a playboy entangled with a teenage admirer.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.