The Jolson Story
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The Jolson Story is a 1946 musical biographical film dramatizing the life and career of legendary entertainer Al Jolson.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Jolson Story canonical | 19 |
| Cantor Yoelson in The Jolson Story | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8607243 — 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 Jolson Story Context triple: [April Showers, usedIn, The Jolson Story]
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A.
Ziegfeld Girl
Ziegfeld Girl is a 1941 MGM musical drama film that follows the intertwined lives and romances of three women who become performers in the famed Ziegfeld Follies.
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B.
Mack & Mabel
Mack & Mabel is a 1974 Broadway musical by Jerry Herman that dramatizes the turbulent relationship between silent film director Mack Sennett and his star Mabel Normand.
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C.
The Great Ziegfeld
The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 American musical biographical film that dramatizes the life and lavish Broadway productions of showman Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
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D.
Ain't Misbehavin'
"Ain't Misbehavin'" is a classic jazz and swing standard, originally from the 1929 musical revue "Hot Chocolates," that became widely popular through performances by artists including Louis Armstrong.
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E.
Crazy for You
Crazy for You is a Tony Award–winning Broadway musical comedy featuring the songs of George and Ira Gershwin, known for its energetic choreography and classic showbiz storyline.
- 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 Jolson Story Target entity description: The Jolson Story is a 1946 musical biographical film dramatizing the life and career of legendary entertainer Al Jolson.
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A.
Ziegfeld Girl
Ziegfeld Girl is a 1941 MGM musical drama film that follows the intertwined lives and romances of three women who become performers in the famed Ziegfeld Follies.
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B.
Mack & Mabel
Mack & Mabel is a 1974 Broadway musical by Jerry Herman that dramatizes the turbulent relationship between silent film director Mack Sennett and his star Mabel Normand.
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C.
The Great Ziegfeld
The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 American musical biographical film that dramatizes the life and lavish Broadway productions of showman Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
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D.
Ain't Misbehavin'
"Ain't Misbehavin'" is a classic jazz and swing standard, originally from the 1929 musical revue "Hot Chocolates," that became widely popular through performances by artists including Louis Armstrong.
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E.
Crazy for You
Crazy for You is a Tony Award–winning Broadway musical comedy featuring the songs of George and Ira Gershwin, known for its energetic choreography and classic showbiz storyline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Jolson Story Description of subject: The Jolson Story is a 1946 musical biographical film dramatizing the life and career of legendary entertainer Al Jolson.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Jolson Story