Swing Shift Cinderella
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Swing Shift Cinderella is a 1945 Tex Avery animated short film that parodies the Cinderella fairy tale with wartime and adult-humor twists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Swing Shift Cinderella canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11386180 — 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: Swing Shift Cinderella Context triple: [Tex Avery, notableWork, Swing Shift Cinderella]
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A.
Swing Shift
Swing Shift is a 1984 romantic drama film set on the American home front during World War II, starring Goldie Hawn as a woman whose life changes when she takes a factory job while her husband is away at war.
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B.
Another Cinderella Story
Another Cinderella Story is a 2008 teen musical romantic comedy film that offers a modern, dance-focused retelling of the classic Cinderella fairy tale.
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C.
The Truth About Cinderella
The Truth About Cinderella is a book by evolutionary psychologists Martin Daly and Margo Wilson that uses parental investment theory to explain patterns of child abuse and favoritism, famously coining the “Cinderella effect.”
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D.
A Cinderella Story
A Cinderella Story is a 2004 teen romantic comedy film that modernizes the classic Cinderella fairy tale in a contemporary high school setting.
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E.
The Trouble With Cinderella
The Trouble With Cinderella is a memoir by jazz clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw, in which he reflects on his life, career, and disillusionment with fame and the music industry.
- 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: Swing Shift Cinderella Target entity description: Swing Shift Cinderella is a 1945 Tex Avery animated short film that parodies the Cinderella fairy tale with wartime and adult-humor twists.
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A.
Swing Shift
Swing Shift is a 1984 romantic drama film set on the American home front during World War II, starring Goldie Hawn as a woman whose life changes when she takes a factory job while her husband is away at war.
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B.
Another Cinderella Story
Another Cinderella Story is a 2008 teen musical romantic comedy film that offers a modern, dance-focused retelling of the classic Cinderella fairy tale.
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C.
The Truth About Cinderella
The Truth About Cinderella is a book by evolutionary psychologists Martin Daly and Margo Wilson that uses parental investment theory to explain patterns of child abuse and favoritism, famously coining the “Cinderella effect.”
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D.
A Cinderella Story
A Cinderella Story is a 2004 teen romantic comedy film that modernizes the classic Cinderella fairy tale in a contemporary high school setting.
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E.
The Trouble With Cinderella
The Trouble With Cinderella is a memoir by jazz clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw, in which he reflects on his life, career, and disillusionment with fame and the music industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Tex Avery film
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animated short film ⓘ cartoon ⓘ |
| animationStudioUnit | MGM cartoon studio ⓘ |
| animationType | traditional hand-drawn animation ⓘ |
| backgroundArtist | John Didrik Johnsen ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Cinderella fairy tale
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linked to:
Cinderella (fairy tale)
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| colorProcess | Technicolor ⓘ |
| containsElement |
adult humor
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slapstick comedy ⓘ wartime setting ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| director | Tex Avery ⓘ |
| distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Cinderella
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Fairy Godmother ⓘ Red Hot Riding Hood-style girl ⓘ Wolf ⓘ |
| featuresLocation |
city street
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nightclub ⓘ |
| featuresTheme |
World War II home front
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gender role reversal ⓘ nightclub culture ⓘ |
| followsWork | Red Hot Riding Hood ⓘ |
| genre |
animated fantasy
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comedy ⓘ parody ⓘ |
| hasCensorshipIssues | yes ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | yes ⓘ |
| hasMedium | theatrical short subject ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeDevice |
breaking the fourth wall
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self-aware narrator ⓘ |
| intendedFormat | cinema exhibition ⓘ |
| layoutArtist | Claude Smith ⓘ |
| musicBy | Scott Bradley ⓘ |
| notableFor |
fast-paced gag style
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risqué humor for its time ⓘ wartime references ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| parodiesWork | Cinderella ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Tex Avery MGM cartoons
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linked to:
MGM cartoon shorts
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| producer | Fred Quimby ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1945-07-07 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1945 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 8 ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | World War II era ⓘ |
| studio | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general audiences ⓘ |
| title | Swing Shift Cinderella ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Swing Shift Cinderella Description of subject: Swing Shift Cinderella is a 1945 Tex Avery animated short film that parodies the Cinderella fairy tale with wartime and adult-humor twists.
Referenced by (2)
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