play "Our American Cousin"
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"Our American Cousin" is an 1858 three-act farcical stage comedy by English playwright Tom Taylor, best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Act III (Our American Cousin) | 1 |
| play "Our American Cousin" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T186029 — 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: play "Our American Cousin" Context triple: [Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, LincolnWasAttending, play "Our American Cousin"]
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A.
Strike Up the Band
"Strike Up the Band" is a 1940 MGM musical film starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, known for its lively song-and-dance numbers and classic big-band era style.
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B.
Broadway Boogie Woogie
Broadway Boogie Woogie is a late abstract painting by Piet Mondrian, celebrated for its vibrant grid of colored squares inspired by the rhythm and layout of New York City.
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C.
Heebie Jeebies
"Heebie Jeebies" is a 1926 jazz recording by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, famous for popularizing scat singing in mainstream jazz.
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D.
Footlights
Footlights is the famed Cambridge University theatrical and comedy club known for launching the careers of many prominent British humorists and performers.
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E.
Babes in Arms
Babes in Arms is a 1939 American musical film, based on the Rodgers and Hart stage musical, best known for starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney as aspiring performers putting on a show.
- 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: play "Our American Cousin" Target entity description: "Our American Cousin" is an 1858 three-act farcical stage comedy by English playwright Tom Taylor, best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
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A.
Strike Up the Band
"Strike Up the Band" is a 1940 MGM musical film starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, known for its lively song-and-dance numbers and classic big-band era style.
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B.
Broadway Boogie Woogie
Broadway Boogie Woogie is a late abstract painting by Piet Mondrian, celebrated for its vibrant grid of colored squares inspired by the rhythm and layout of New York City.
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C.
Heebie Jeebies
"Heebie Jeebies" is a 1926 jazz recording by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, famous for popularizing scat singing in mainstream jazz.
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D.
Footlights
Footlights is the famed Cambridge University theatrical and comedy club known for launching the careers of many prominent British humorists and performers.
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E.
Babes in Arms
Babes in Arms is a 1939 American musical film, based on the Rodgers and Hart stage musical, best known for starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney as aspiring performers putting on a show.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: play "Our American Cousin" Description of subject: "Our American Cousin" is an 1858 three-act farcical stage comedy by English playwright Tom Taylor, best known as the play being performed at Ford's Theatre when President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Act II
linked to: play "Our American Cousin"