Brewster's Millions (stage play)
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Brewster's Millions (stage play) is a theatrical adaptation of George Barr McCutcheon's comic novel about a man who must spend a large inheritance under strict conditions to receive an even larger fortune.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2253704 — 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: Brewster's Millions (stage play) Context triple: [Brewster's Millions (1985 film), basedOn, Brewster's Millions (stage play)]
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Brewster's Millions
Brewster's Millions is a 1985 comedy film starring Richard Pryor as a minor-league baseball player who must spend a vast fortune in a short time to inherit an even larger one.
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B.
The Barkleys of Broadway
The Barkleys of Broadway is a 1949 MGM musical film that reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their only Technicolor feature together, blending song, dance, and comedy in a backstage showbiz story.
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C.
Dodsworth (play)
Dodsworth is a 1934 stage adaptation by Sidney Howard of Sinclair Lewis's novel, focusing on the disintegration of a middle-aged American couple's marriage during their travels in Europe.
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The Great Ziegfeld
The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 American musical biographical film that dramatizes the life and lavish Broadway productions of showman Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
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Manhattan Melodrama
Manhattan Melodrama is a 1934 American crime drama film, best known for starring Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy and for being the movie John Dillinger watched before his death.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brewster's Millions (stage play) Target entity description: Brewster's Millions (stage play) is a theatrical adaptation of George Barr McCutcheon's comic novel about a man who must spend a large inheritance under strict conditions to receive an even larger fortune.
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A.
Brewster's Millions
Brewster's Millions is a 1985 comedy film starring Richard Pryor as a minor-league baseball player who must spend a vast fortune in a short time to inherit an even larger one.
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B.
The Barkleys of Broadway
The Barkleys of Broadway is a 1949 MGM musical film that reunited Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their only Technicolor feature together, blending song, dance, and comedy in a backstage showbiz story.
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C.
Dodsworth (play)
Dodsworth is a 1934 stage adaptation by Sidney Howard of Sinclair Lewis's novel, focusing on the disintegration of a middle-aged American couple's marriage during their travels in Europe.
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D.
The Great Ziegfeld
The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 American musical biographical film that dramatizes the life and lavish Broadway productions of showman Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
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E.
Manhattan Melodrama
Manhattan Melodrama is a 1934 American crime drama film, best known for starring Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy and for being the movie John Dillinger watched before his death.
- F. None of above. chosen
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| instanceOf |
stage play
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theatrical adaptation ⓘ |
| adaptationOfGenre | comic novel ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Brewster's Millions (novel)
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linked to:
Brewster's Millions (stage play)
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| basedOnWorkBy | George Barr McCutcheon ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| fictionalUniverse |
Brewster's Millions series
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linked to:
Brewster's Millions (stage play)
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| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasPlotElement |
conditional larger fortune
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time-limited spending requirement ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistGoal | qualify for larger inheritance ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistTrait | sudden wealth ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
conditions of inheritance
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extravagance ⓘ responsibility ⓘ wealth ⓘ |
| literarySourceGenre | comic fiction ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Montgomery Brewster ⓘ |
| medium | live theatre ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
inheritance
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spending challenge ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | comedic farce ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| setting | early 20th century ⓘ |
| workTitle |
Brewster's Millions
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linked to:
Brewster's Millions (stage play)
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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: Brewster's Millions (stage play) Description of subject: Brewster's Millions (stage play) is a theatrical adaptation of George Barr McCutcheon's comic novel about a man who must spend a large inheritance under strict conditions to receive an even larger fortune.
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