The Origin of the Species
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"The Origin of the Species" is a song from the Broadway musical *Lestat*, inspired by Anne Rice’s vampire chronicles and exploring themes of transformation and identity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Origin of the Species canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11859906 — 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: The Origin of the Species Context triple: [Lestat (musical), notableSong, The Origin of the Species]
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A.
On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species is Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking 1859 scientific work that introduced the theory of evolution by natural selection and transformed modern biology.
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B.
On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type
"On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type" is Alfred Russel Wallace’s seminal 1858 essay that independently outlined the theory of evolution by natural selection alongside Charles Darwin.
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C.
Systematics and the Origin of Species
Systematics and the Origin of Species is a landmark 1942 book by evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr that helped establish the modern biological species concept and integrated systematics with evolutionary theory.
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D.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation is a controversial 1844 anonymous work of evolutionary and cosmological speculation that popularized early ideas about species transmutation and natural development before Darwin’s theory of evolution.
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E.
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication is Charles Darwin’s extensive two-volume scientific work analyzing heredity, artificial selection, and variation in domesticated species to support and elaborate his theory of evolution.
- 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: The Origin of the Species Target entity description: "The Origin of the Species" is a song from the Broadway musical *Lestat*, inspired by Anne Rice’s vampire chronicles and exploring themes of transformation and identity.
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A.
On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species is Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking 1859 scientific work that introduced the theory of evolution by natural selection and transformed modern biology.
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B.
On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type
"On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type" is Alfred Russel Wallace’s seminal 1858 essay that independently outlined the theory of evolution by natural selection alongside Charles Darwin.
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C.
Systematics and the Origin of Species
Systematics and the Origin of Species is a landmark 1942 book by evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr that helped establish the modern biological species concept and integrated systematics with evolutionary theory.
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D.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation is a controversial 1844 anonymous work of evolutionary and cosmological speculation that popularized early ideas about species transmutation and natural development before Darwin’s theory of evolution.
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E.
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication is Charles Darwin’s extensive two-volume scientific work analyzing heredity, artificial selection, and variation in domesticated species to support and elaborate his theory of evolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
show tune
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song ⓘ |
| associatedWith | vampires ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Vampire Chronicles ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| fictionalUniverse | The Vampire Chronicles ⓘ |
| genre | musical theatre ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Origin of the Species ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Anne Rice ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalFocus |
otherness
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personal transformation ⓘ self-discovery ⓘ |
| medium | Broadway musical ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | character development song ⓘ |
| partOf |
Lestat
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linked to:
Lestat de Lioncourt
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| performanceContext | stage musical ⓘ |
| theme |
identity
ⓘ
transformation ⓘ |
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 Origin of the Species Description of subject: "The Origin of the Species" is a song from the Broadway musical *Lestat*, inspired by Anne Rice’s vampire chronicles and exploring themes of transformation and identity.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.