Newsies (stage musical)
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Newsies (stage musical) is a high-energy Broadway show based on the 1992 Disney film, known for its athletic choreography, rousing Alan Menken score, and story of New York City newsboys striking against powerful publishers in the 1890s.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Newsies | 8 |
| Newsies (stage musical) canonical | 2 |
| Newsies (1992 film) | 1 |
| Newsies (musical) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1584553 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Newsies (stage musical) Context triple: [Disney Theatrical Group, notableWork, Newsies (stage musical)]
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Kids’ Night on Broadway
Kids’ Night on Broadway is a family-focused theatre initiative that offers free or discounted Broadway tickets to children when accompanied by a paying adult, encouraging young audiences to experience live theatre.
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B.
Fiorello! (musical)
Fiorello! is a Pulitzer Prize–winning Broadway musical that dramatizes the early political career and reformist zeal of New York City mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia.
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C.
The Lion King (stage musical)
The Lion King (stage musical) is a critically acclaimed Broadway adaptation of Disney's animated film, renowned for its innovative puppetry, visually striking staging, and Elton John–Tim Rice musical score.
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D.
Broadway Joe
Broadway Joe is the flamboyant Hall of Fame NFL quarterback Joe Namath, famed for his bold Super Bowl III guarantee and larger-than-life New York celebrity persona.
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E.
Hamilton (musical)
Hamilton is a critically acclaimed Broadway musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda that blends hip-hop, R&B, and traditional show tunes to tell the story of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.
- 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: Newsies (stage musical) Target entity description: Newsies (stage musical) is a high-energy Broadway show based on the 1992 Disney film, known for its athletic choreography, rousing Alan Menken score, and story of New York City newsboys striking against powerful publishers in the 1890s.
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A.
Kids’ Night on Broadway
Kids’ Night on Broadway is a family-focused theatre initiative that offers free or discounted Broadway tickets to children when accompanied by a paying adult, encouraging young audiences to experience live theatre.
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B.
Fiorello! (musical)
Fiorello! is a Pulitzer Prize–winning Broadway musical that dramatizes the early political career and reformist zeal of New York City mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia.
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C.
The Lion King (stage musical)
The Lion King (stage musical) is a critically acclaimed Broadway adaptation of Disney's animated film, renowned for its innovative puppetry, visually striking staging, and Elton John–Tim Rice musical score.
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D.
Broadway Joe
Broadway Joe is the flamboyant Hall of Fame NFL quarterback Joe Namath, famed for his bold Super Bowl III guarantee and larger-than-life New York celebrity persona.
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E.
Hamilton (musical)
Hamilton is a critically acclaimed Broadway musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda that blends hip-hop, R&B, and traditional show tunes to tell the story of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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: Newsies (stage musical) Description of subject: Newsies (stage musical) is a high-energy Broadway show based on the 1992 Disney film, known for its athletic choreography, rousing Alan Menken score, and story of New York City newsboys striking against powerful publishers in the 1890s.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Menken
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