Heaven Can Wait (play)

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Heaven Can Wait is a 1938 stage comedy-fantasy by Harry Segall about a man taken to the afterlife before his time who must return to Earth in another body.

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Label	Occurrences
the play "Heaven Can Wait" by Harry Segall	3
Heaven Can Wait (play) canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21878192 — 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: Heaven Can Wait (play)
Context triple: [Here Comes Mr. Jordan, basedOn, Heaven Can Wait (play)]

A. Seventh Heaven (play)
Seventh Heaven (play) is a romantic drama by Austin Strong about a Parisian sewer worker and a young woman whose love is tested amid the turmoil of World War I.
B. Remains to Be Seen (play)
Remains to Be Seen is a mid-20th-century Broadway comedy play co-written by Howard Lindsay that blends murder mystery elements with lighthearted, sophisticated humor.
C. Wait Until Dark (stage)
Wait Until Dark (stage) is a theatrical adaptation of Frederick Knott’s suspense thriller about a blind woman terrorized by criminals searching for hidden drugs in her apartment.
D. Heaven Can Wait
Heaven Can Wait is a 1978 romantic fantasy-comedy film, co-directed by and starring Warren Beatty, about a football player mistakenly taken to heaven before his time and given a second chance at life in another body.
E. Heaven Can Wait
Heaven Can Wait is a 1943 romantic fantasy-comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, known for its witty exploration of love, morality, and the afterlife.
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: Heaven Can Wait (play)
Target entity description: Heaven Can Wait is a 1938 stage comedy-fantasy by Harry Segall about a man taken to the afterlife before his time who must return to Earth in another body.

A. Seventh Heaven (play)
Seventh Heaven (play) is a romantic drama by Austin Strong about a Parisian sewer worker and a young woman whose love is tested amid the turmoil of World War I.
B. Remains to Be Seen (play)
Remains to Be Seen is a mid-20th-century Broadway comedy play co-written by Howard Lindsay that blends murder mystery elements with lighthearted, sophisticated humor.
C. Wait Until Dark (stage)
Wait Until Dark (stage) is a theatrical adaptation of Frederick Knott’s suspense thriller about a blind woman terrorized by criminals searching for hidden drugs in her apartment.
D. Heaven Can Wait
Heaven Can Wait is a 1978 romantic fantasy-comedy film, co-directed by and starring Warren Beatty, about a football player mistakenly taken to heaven before his time and given a second chance at life in another body.
E. Heaven Can Wait
Heaven Can Wait is a 1943 romantic fantasy-comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, known for its witty exploration of love, morality, and the afterlife.
F. None of above. chosen