They're Playing Our Song (stage musical, story basis)
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"They're Playing Our Song" is a stage musical inspired by the real-life romantic and professional relationship between lyricist Carole Bayer Sager and composer Marvin Hamlisch.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| They're Playing Our Song (stage musical) | 1 |
| They're Playing Our Song (stage musical, story basis) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5534475 — 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: They're Playing Our Song (stage musical, story basis) Context triple: [Carole Bayer Sager, notableWork, They're Playing Our Song (stage musical, story basis)]
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A.
Spring Is Here (stage musical)
Spring Is Here is a 1929 Broadway musical by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, notable for introducing several standards of the American songbook.
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B.
the Nightman Cometh musical
The Nightman Cometh musical is a cult-favorite rock opera episode of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," featuring Charlie Kelly’s bizarre stage production about the Nightman and Dayman.
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C.
No Strings (musical)
No Strings is a 1962 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers that is notable for its jazz-influenced score and its then-unconventional interracial romance storyline.
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D.
Curtains (musical)
Curtains is a comedic murder-mystery musical set in 1950s Boston, featuring music and lyrics by Kander and Ebb and a book by Rupert Holmes.
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E.
Applause (musical)
Applause is a 1970 Broadway musical adaptation of the film "All About Eve," featuring music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams.
- 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: They're Playing Our Song (stage musical, story basis) Target entity description: "They're Playing Our Song" is a stage musical inspired by the real-life romantic and professional relationship between lyricist Carole Bayer Sager and composer Marvin Hamlisch.
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A.
Spring Is Here (stage musical)
Spring Is Here is a 1929 Broadway musical by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, notable for introducing several standards of the American songbook.
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B.
the Nightman Cometh musical
The Nightman Cometh musical is a cult-favorite rock opera episode of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," featuring Charlie Kelly’s bizarre stage production about the Nightman and Dayman.
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C.
No Strings (musical)
No Strings is a 1962 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers that is notable for its jazz-influenced score and its then-unconventional interracial romance storyline.
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D.
Curtains (musical)
Curtains is a comedic murder-mystery musical set in 1950s Boston, featuring music and lyrics by Kander and Ebb and a book by Rupert Holmes.
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E.
Applause (musical)
Applause is a 1970 Broadway musical adaptation of the film "All About Eve," featuring music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
professional collaboration
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real-life relationship ⓘ romantic relationship ⓘ |
| basedOnBy | book by Neil Simon for They're Playing Our Song (stage musical) ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| field |
musical theatre
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popular music ⓘ |
| hasAspect |
romantic partnership
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show-business setting ⓘ songwriting collaboration ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
comedy
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romantic ⓘ |
| hasParticipant |
Carole Bayer Sager
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Marvin Hamlisch ⓘ |
| hasRoleOf |
composer
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lyricist ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
balancing love and career
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creative partnership ⓘ romantic conflict ⓘ |
| influenced |
character dynamics in They're Playing Our Song (stage musical)
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narrative structure of They're Playing Our Song (stage musical) ⓘ |
| inspirationFor | fictional characters in They're Playing Our Song (stage musical) ⓘ |
| inspired | They're Playing Our Song (stage musical) ⓘ |
| notableWorkOfParticipant |
Carole Bayer Sager
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Marvin Hamlisch ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | relationship between a composer and a lyricist in They're Playing Our Song (stage musical) ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 20th century ⓘ |
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: They're Playing Our Song (stage musical, story basis) Description of subject: "They're Playing Our Song" is a stage musical inspired by the real-life romantic and professional relationship between lyricist Carole Bayer Sager and composer Marvin Hamlisch.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
They're Playing Our Song (stage musical, story basis)
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inspired
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They're Playing Our Song (stage musical)
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linked to: They're Playing Our Song (stage musical, story basis)