Born Yesterday
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Born Yesterday is a classic 1950 American comedy film, based on the stage play by Garson Kanin, best known for Judy Holliday’s Oscar-winning performance and its satirical take on political corruption and social class.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Born Yesterday canonical | 25 |
| Born Yesterday (1950 film) | 4 |
| Born Yesterday (play) | 4 |
| Born Yesterday (stage play) | 3 |
| Born Yesterday (film) | 2 |
| Born Yesterday (1946 play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2269657 — 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: Born Yesterday Context triple: [George Cukor, notableWork, Born Yesterday]
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A.
There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
"There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" is an optimistic theme song written for Disney's Carousel of Progress attraction, celebrating faith in technological progress and the future.
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B.
Daydream Island
Daydream Island is a small resort island in Australia's Whitsundays, known for its tropical beaches, coral reefs, and popular holiday accommodations.
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C.
Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting
"Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting" is a high-energy rock song by Elton John, known for its aggressive guitar-driven sound and rebellious lyrics about youthful nightlife and brawling.
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D.
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever is a Broadway musical (later adapted into a film) that blends romance, reincarnation, and extrasensory perception, featuring music by Burton Lane and a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner.
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E.
Paper Moon
"Paper Moon" is a 1973 American comedy-drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, celebrated for its Depression-era setting and the Oscar-winning performance of child actress Tatum O'Neal.
- 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: Born Yesterday Target entity description: Born Yesterday is a classic 1950 American comedy film, based on the stage play by Garson Kanin, best known for Judy Holliday’s Oscar-winning performance and its satirical take on political corruption and social class.
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A.
There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
"There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" is an optimistic theme song written for Disney's Carousel of Progress attraction, celebrating faith in technological progress and the future.
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B.
Daydream Island
Daydream Island is a small resort island in Australia's Whitsundays, known for its tropical beaches, coral reefs, and popular holiday accommodations.
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C.
Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting
"Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting" is a high-energy rock song by Elton John, known for its aggressive guitar-driven sound and rebellious lyrics about youthful nightlife and brawling.
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D.
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever is a Broadway musical (later adapted into a film) that blends romance, reincarnation, and extrasensory perception, featuring music by Burton Lane and a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner.
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E.
Paper Moon
"Paper Moon" is a 1973 American comedy-drama film directed by Peter Bogdanovich, celebrated for its Depression-era setting and the Oscar-winning performance of child actress Tatum O'Neal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Born Yesterday Description of subject: Born Yesterday is a classic 1950 American comedy film, based on the stage play by Garson Kanin, best known for Judy Holliday’s Oscar-winning performance and its satirical take on political corruption and social class.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Judy Holliday (divorced)
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Judy Holliday (divorced)
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Judy Holliday (divorced)
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William Broderick
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Kanin
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