The History Boys (Broadway production)
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The History Boys (Broadway production) is the acclaimed New York staging of Alan Bennett’s award-winning play about a group of British schoolboys preparing for university entrance exams, noted for its sharp wit and exploration of education, sexuality, and history.
All labels observed (5)
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| The History Boys | 11 |
| The History Boys (Broadway production) canonical | 2 |
| The History Boys (National Theatre production) | 2 |
| The History Boys (stage production) | 2 |
| The History Boys (play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T684135 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: The History Boys (Broadway production) Context triple: [Scott Rudin, notableWork, The History Boys (Broadway production)]
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Stage Door
Stage Door is a 1937 American comedy-drama film about aspiring actresses living in a New York boarding house, noted for its sharp dialogue and ensemble cast including Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers.
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The Last Five Years
The Last Five Years is a contemporary two-person musical by Jason Robert Brown that chronicles a couple’s five-year relationship through intersecting, reverse-chronological and forward-chronological narratives.
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The Damned United
The Damned United is a 2009 British sports drama film about Brian Clough’s turbulent 44-day tenure as manager of Leeds United, adapted from David Peace’s novel of the same name.
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Shakespeare in Love
"Shakespeare in Love" is a 1998 romantic period comedy-drama film that imagines a young William Shakespeare's love affair inspiring the writing of "Romeo and Juliet."
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Next to Normal
Next to Normal is a Pulitzer Prize–winning rock musical that explores a suburban family's struggle with mental illness and grief.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The History Boys (Broadway production) Target entity description: The History Boys (Broadway production) is the acclaimed New York staging of Alan Bennett’s award-winning play about a group of British schoolboys preparing for university entrance exams, noted for its sharp wit and exploration of education, sexuality, and history.
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A.
Stage Door
Stage Door is a 1937 American comedy-drama film about aspiring actresses living in a New York boarding house, noted for its sharp dialogue and ensemble cast including Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers.
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B.
The Last Five Years
The Last Five Years is a contemporary two-person musical by Jason Robert Brown that chronicles a couple’s five-year relationship through intersecting, reverse-chronological and forward-chronological narratives.
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C.
The Damned United
The Damned United is a 2009 British sports drama film about Brian Clough’s turbulent 44-day tenure as manager of Leeds United, adapted from David Peace’s novel of the same name.
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D.
Shakespeare in Love
"Shakespeare in Love" is a 1998 romantic period comedy-drama film that imagines a young William Shakespeare's love affair inspiring the writing of "Romeo and Juliet."
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E.
Next to Normal
Next to Normal is a Pulitzer Prize–winning rock musical that explores a suburban family's struggle with mental illness and grief.
- 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: The History Boys (Broadway production) Description of subject: The History Boys (Broadway production) is the acclaimed New York staging of Alan Bennett’s award-winning play about a group of British schoolboys preparing for university entrance exams, noted for its sharp wit and exploration of education, sexuality, and history.
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