The Baker's Wife
E288285
The Baker's Wife is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, based on a French film about a small village disrupted when the baker’s young wife runs off with a handsome lover.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Baker's Wife canonical | 2 |
| The Baker’s Wife | 1 |
| The Baker’s Wife (TV series) | 1 |
| the Baker's Wife | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2666948 — 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: The Baker's Wife Context triple: [Stephen Schwartz, notableWork, The Baker's Wife]
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A.
The Baker's Wife
The Baker's Wife is a central, pragmatic yet yearning character in "Into the Woods," whose desire for a child drives much of the story’s moral complexity and emotional depth.
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B.
The Stolen Bride
The Stolen Bride is a silent-era film best known for featuring popular 1920s American actress Billie Dove in a leading role.
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C.
The Bishop's Wife
The Bishop's Wife is a 1947 romantic fantasy film starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven, about an angel who comes to Earth to help a troubled bishop and his wife.
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D.
The White Old Maid
"The White Old Maid" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, notable for its Gothic atmosphere and themes of guilt and lifelong penance.
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E.
The Wedding-Knell
"The Wedding-Knell" is a short Gothic tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of death, aging, and the macabre intrusion of the grave into a belated marriage ceremony.
- 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: The Baker's Wife Target entity description: The Baker's Wife is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, based on a French film about a small village disrupted when the baker’s young wife runs off with a handsome lover.
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A.
The Baker's Wife
The Baker's Wife is a central, pragmatic yet yearning character in "Into the Woods," whose desire for a child drives much of the story’s moral complexity and emotional depth.
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B.
The Stolen Bride
The Stolen Bride is a silent-era film best known for featuring popular 1920s American actress Billie Dove in a leading role.
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C.
The Bishop's Wife
The Bishop's Wife is a 1947 romantic fantasy film starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven, about an angel who comes to Earth to help a troubled bishop and his wife.
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D.
The White Old Maid
"The White Old Maid" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, notable for its Gothic atmosphere and themes of guilt and lifelong penance.
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E.
The Wedding-Knell
"The Wedding-Knell" is a short Gothic tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of death, aging, and the macabre intrusion of the grave into a belated marriage ceremony.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical theatre work
ⓘ
stage musical ⓘ |
| basedOn |
French film
ⓘ
La Femme du Boulanger ⓘ
linked to:
La Femme du boulanger
|
| composer | Stephen Schwartz ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre | musical comedy ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
the baker
ⓘ
the baker's wife ⓘ
linked to:
The Baker's Wife
the lover ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
betrayal
ⓘ
community solidarity ⓘ forgiveness ⓘ love ⓘ |
| hasType | book musical ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Stephen Schwartz ⓘ |
| lyricsBy | Stephen Schwartz ⓘ |
| musicBy | Stephen Schwartz ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Chanson
ⓘ
If I Have to Live Alone ⓘ Meadowlark ⓘ Where Is the Warmth? ⓘ |
| setting | French village ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
adultery
ⓘ
community relationships ⓘ marital conflict ⓘ small French village ⓘ |
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: The Baker's Wife Description of subject: The Baker's Wife is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, based on a French film about a small village disrupted when the baker’s young wife runs off with a handsome lover.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Baker's Wife
linked to: The Baker's Wife
linked to: The Baker's Wife