The Best Man (play)
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The Best Man (play) is a 1960 political drama by Gore Vidal that explores the ruthless maneuvering and moral compromises behind a U.S. presidential nomination.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Best Man (play) canonical | 2 |
| The Best Man (stage) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14174093 — 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 Best Man (play) Context triple: [The Best Man, basedOn, The Best Man (play)]
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A.
The Boys from Syracuse
The Boys from Syracuse is a 1938 Rodgers and Hart musical comedy based on Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, known for its mistaken-identity plot and classic songs.
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B.
A Good Play
"A Good Play" is a children's poem by Robert Louis Stevenson that charmingly depicts imaginative play and adventure from a child's perspective.
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C.
Harvey (play)
Harvey (play) is a 1944 Pulitzer Prize–winning stage comedy by Mary Chase about a genial man whose best friend is an invisible six-foot-tall rabbit.
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D.
The Ringer (play)
The Ringer (play) is a stage adaptation of Edgar Wallace’s crime story about a mysterious master of disguise who outwits both criminals and the police.
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E.
Race (play)
Race is a 2009 courtroom drama play by David Mamet that explores themes of racism, power, and the American legal system through the story of lawyers defending a white man accused of raping a Black woman.
- 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 Best Man (play) Target entity description: The Best Man (play) is a 1960 political drama by Gore Vidal that explores the ruthless maneuvering and moral compromises behind a U.S. presidential nomination.
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A.
The Boys from Syracuse
The Boys from Syracuse is a 1938 Rodgers and Hart musical comedy based on Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, known for its mistaken-identity plot and classic songs.
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B.
A Good Play
"A Good Play" is a children's poem by Robert Louis Stevenson that charmingly depicts imaginative play and adventure from a child's perspective.
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C.
Harvey (play)
Harvey (play) is a 1944 Pulitzer Prize–winning stage comedy by Mary Chase about a genial man whose best friend is an invisible six-foot-tall rabbit.
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D.
The Ringer (play)
The Ringer (play) is a stage adaptation of Edgar Wallace’s crime story about a mysterious master of disguise who outwits both criminals and the police.
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E.
Race (play)
Race is a 2009 courtroom drama play by David Mamet that explores themes of racism, power, and the American legal system through the story of lawyers defending a white man accused of raping a Black woman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Best Man (play)