It Happens Every Spring
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It Happens Every Spring is a 1949 American baseball-themed fantasy comedy film about a chemistry professor who discovers a substance that makes baseballs avoid bats, leading him to become an unbeatable pitcher.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| It Happens Every Spring canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11666206 — 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: It Happens Every Spring Context triple: [Paul Douglas, notableWork, It Happens Every Spring]
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A.
Suddenly, It’s Spring
"Suddenly, It’s Spring" is a 1947 romantic comedy film starring Fred MacMurray, known for its lighthearted postwar story and charming performances.
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B.
Spring in Town
"Spring in Town" is a 1941 painting by American artist Grant Wood that idealizes rural Midwestern life through a meticulously detailed, nostalgic small-town scene.
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C.
Jolly Springtime
"Jolly Springtime" is a song featured on James Taylor’s studio album "Before This World."
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D.
Spring Is Here
Spring Is Here is a 1929 Rodgers and Hart stage musical that introduced several enduring songs and was later adapted into film.
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E.
The First Days of Spring
The First Days of Spring is a 2009 indie folk concept album by Noah and the Whale that explores themes of heartbreak, loss, and emotional renewal.
- 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: It Happens Every Spring Target entity description: It Happens Every Spring is a 1949 American baseball-themed fantasy comedy film about a chemistry professor who discovers a substance that makes baseballs avoid bats, leading him to become an unbeatable pitcher.
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A.
Suddenly, It’s Spring
"Suddenly, It’s Spring" is a 1947 romantic comedy film starring Fred MacMurray, known for its lighthearted postwar story and charming performances.
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B.
Spring in Town
"Spring in Town" is a 1941 painting by American artist Grant Wood that idealizes rural Midwestern life through a meticulously detailed, nostalgic small-town scene.
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C.
Jolly Springtime
"Jolly Springtime" is a song featured on James Taylor’s studio album "Before This World."
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D.
Spring Is Here
Spring Is Here is a 1929 Rodgers and Hart stage musical that introduced several enduring songs and was later adapted into film.
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E.
The First Days of Spring
The First Days of Spring is a 2009 indie folk concept album by Noah and the Whale that explores themes of heartbreak, loss, and emotional renewal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
ⓘ
baseball film ⓘ fantasy comedy film ⓘ film ⓘ sports comedy film ⓘ |
| basedOn | unpublished novel by Shirley W. Smith ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| character |
Deborah Greenleaf
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Monk Lanigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Vernon K. Simpson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Leo Tover NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Leigh Harline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfRelease |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Lloyd Bacon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Philip W. Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
ⓘ
surface form:
Golden Age of Hollywood
|
| genre |
baseball film
ⓘ
comedy ⓘ fantasy ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| hasSport | baseball ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
baseball
ⓘ
scientific discovery ⓘ underdog success ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Vernon K. Simpson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | depicting a magical substance that makes baseballs avoid bats ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A chemistry professor discovers a substance that makes baseballs avoid bats and becomes an unbeatable pitcher. ⓘ |
| producer | William Perlberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | chemistry professor ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1949 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 87 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Lloyd C. Douglas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Malvin Wald NERFINISHED ⓘ Val Burton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Major League Baseball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Ed Begley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jean Peters NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Milland NERFINISHED ⓘ Ted de Corsia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | contemporary to late 1940s ⓘ |
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: It Happens Every Spring Description of subject: It Happens Every Spring is a 1949 American baseball-themed fantasy comedy film about a chemistry professor who discovers a substance that makes baseballs avoid bats, leading him to become an unbeatable pitcher.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.