The Shannons of Broadway
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The Shannons of Broadway is a stage comedy by playwright Wilson Collison that centers on the humorous misadventures of an Irish-American family navigating life and show business in New York.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Shannons of Broadway canonical | 4 |
| The Shannons of Broadway (play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8977459 — 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 Shannons of Broadway Context triple: [Wilson Collison, notableWork, The Shannons of Broadway]
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Mulberry Row
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B.
Silk Stocking Row
Silk Stocking Row is a historic residential district in Blue Island, Illinois, known for its well-preserved, upscale homes that reflect the city’s affluent past.
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C.
The Avenue
The Avenue is an upmarket shopping and dining destination located within the Spinningfields district of Manchester, England.
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D.
Cross Four Ways
Cross Four Ways is a small settlement and road junction located within the parish of Malew on the Isle of Man.
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E.
Shawbost
Shawbost is a village on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, known for its Gaelic heritage and coastal scenery.
- 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 Shannons of Broadway Target entity description: The Shannons of Broadway is a stage comedy by playwright Wilson Collison that centers on the humorous misadventures of an Irish-American family navigating life and show business in New York.
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A.
Mulberry Row
Mulberry Row was the main industrial and domestic hub of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation, where enslaved laborers lived and worked in workshops, quarters, and service buildings.
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B.
Silk Stocking Row
Silk Stocking Row is a historic residential district in Blue Island, Illinois, known for its well-preserved, upscale homes that reflect the city’s affluent past.
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C.
The Avenue
The Avenue is an upmarket shopping and dining destination located within the Spinningfields district of Manchester, England.
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D.
Cross Four Ways
Cross Four Ways is a small settlement and road junction located within the parish of Malew on the Isle of Man.
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E.
Shawbost
Shawbost is a village on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, known for its Gaelic heritage and coastal scenery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
play
ⓘ
playwright ⓘ stage comedy ⓘ |
| author | Wilson Collison ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Wilson Collison ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
stage comedy ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacterFamily | the Shannons ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
family life
ⓘ
humorous misadventures ⓘ show business ⓘ |
| medium | theatre ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | Irish-American family ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Shannons of Broadway ⓘ |
| settingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
Broadway theatre
ⓘ
Irish-American culture ⓘ |
| workOf | Wilson Collison ⓘ |
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 Shannons of Broadway Description of subject: The Shannons of Broadway is a stage comedy by playwright Wilson Collison that centers on the humorous misadventures of an Irish-American family navigating life and show business in New York.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.