Shall We Dance (1937 film)
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Shall We Dance is a 1937 Hollywood musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, noted for its blend of dance, romance, and Gershwin songs.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shall We Dance (1937 film) canonical | 3 |
| RKO Radio Pictures film Shall We Dance | 1 |
| Shall We Dance (1937 American musical comedy film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9327199 — 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: Shall We Dance (1937 film) Context triple: [Slap That Bass, originallyReleasedIn, Shall We Dance (1937 film)]
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Song and Dance
Song and Dance is a two-act musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber that uniquely combines a song cycle with a dance-based narrative.
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B.
On with the Dance (1920 film)
On with the Dance is a 1920 American silent drama film notable for featuring actress Agnes Ayres in its cast.
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Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers
Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers was a pioneering all-male modern dance company in the United States that challenged gender norms in dance during the 1930s.
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Fred and Ginger
Fred and Ginger is the popular nickname for Prague’s famously curving, deconstructivist “Dancing House” building, whose twin towers evoke the dynamic motion of dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
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E.
An Evening with Fred Astaire
An Evening with Fred Astaire is a 1958 Emmy-winning American television musical special showcasing Fred Astaire’s song-and-dance performances and innovative use of video effects.
- 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: Shall We Dance (1937 film) Target entity description: Shall We Dance is a 1937 Hollywood musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, noted for its blend of dance, romance, and Gershwin songs.
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A.
Song and Dance
Song and Dance is a two-act musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber that uniquely combines a song cycle with a dance-based narrative.
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B.
On with the Dance (1920 film)
On with the Dance is a 1920 American silent drama film notable for featuring actress Agnes Ayres in its cast.
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C.
Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers
Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers was a pioneering all-male modern dance company in the United States that challenged gender norms in dance during the 1930s.
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D.
Fred and Ginger
Fred and Ginger is the popular nickname for Prague’s famously curving, deconstructivist “Dancing House” building, whose twin towers evoke the dynamic motion of dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
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E.
An Evening with Fred Astaire
An Evening with Fred Astaire is a 1958 Emmy-winning American television musical special showcasing Fred Astaire’s song-and-dance performances and innovative use of video effects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Shall We Dance (1937 film) Description of subject: Shall We Dance is a 1937 Hollywood musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, noted for its blend of dance, romance, and Gershwin songs.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Shall We Dance (1937 film)
linked to: Shall We Dance (1937 film)