Second Chorus (1940 film)
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Second Chorus is a 1940 American musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire and Paulette Goddard, notable for its big-band jazz setting and Astaire’s song-and-dance performances.
All labels observed (1)
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| Second Chorus (1940 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9330134 — 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: Second Chorus (1940 film) Context triple: [Hank Taylor, createdFor, Second Chorus (1940 film)]
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A.
The Drum (1938 film)
The Drum (1938 film) is a 1938 British Technicolor adventure film set in colonial India, known for its depiction of imperial themes and starring actors such as Roger Livesey.
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B.
The Chaser (1928)
The Chaser (1928) is a silent comedy film best known for featuring Australian-born comic actor Clyde Cook in a leading role.
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C.
Random Harvest
Random Harvest is a 1942 romantic drama film, based on James Hilton’s novel, renowned for its amnesia-driven love story and considered one of director Mervyn LeRoy’s most enduring works.
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D.
Lady, Be Good
"Lady, Be Good" is a 1924 Broadway musical comedy with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin, best known for its hit songs and for featuring Fred Astaire in one of his early major stage roles.
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E.
Footlight Parade
Footlight Parade is a 1933 American musical film starring James Cagney, celebrated for its elaborate Busby Berkeley-choreographed production numbers and backstage 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: Second Chorus (1940 film) Target entity description: Second Chorus is a 1940 American musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire and Paulette Goddard, notable for its big-band jazz setting and Astaire’s song-and-dance performances.
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A.
The Drum (1938 film)
The Drum (1938 film) is a 1938 British Technicolor adventure film set in colonial India, known for its depiction of imperial themes and starring actors such as Roger Livesey.
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B.
The Chaser (1928)
The Chaser (1928) is a silent comedy film best known for featuring Australian-born comic actor Clyde Cook in a leading role.
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C.
Random Harvest
Random Harvest is a 1942 romantic drama film, based on James Hilton’s novel, renowned for its amnesia-driven love story and considered one of director Mervyn LeRoy’s most enduring works.
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D.
Lady, Be Good
"Lady, Be Good" is a 1924 Broadway musical comedy with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin, best known for its hit songs and for featuring Fred Astaire in one of his early major stage roles.
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E.
Footlight Parade
Footlight Parade is a 1933 American musical film starring James Cagney, celebrated for its elaborate Busby Berkeley-choreographed production numbers and backstage showbiz storyline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Second Chorus (1940 film) Description of subject: Second Chorus is a 1940 American musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire and Paulette Goddard, notable for its big-band jazz setting and Astaire’s song-and-dance performances.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hank Taylor – Burgess Meredith