Things We Do for Love
E746864
"Things We Do for Love" is a darkly comic stage play by British dramatist Alan Ayckbourn that explores romantic entanglements and emotional cruelty among neighbors living in the same house.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Things We Do for Love canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8629857 — 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: Things We Do for Love Context triple: [Alan Ayckbourn, notableWork, Things We Do for Love]
-
A.
Things I Do for Love
"Things I Do for Love" is a musical track from the first season soundtrack of the television series Game of Thrones, composed by Ramin Djawadi.
-
B.
Our Love
"Our Love" is a song featured on Donna Summer's influential disco album "Bad Girls."
-
C.
Our Love Affair
"Our Love Affair" is a romantic popular song from the 1940 MGM musical film *Strike Up the Band*, composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
-
D.
What Love Can Do
"What Love Can Do" is a song by Bruce Springsteen featured on his 2009 rock album *Working on a Dream*.
-
E.
What You Won't Do for Love
"What You Won't Do for Love" is a smooth jazz-inflected R&B love song by Bobby Caldwell, released in 1978 and widely regarded as his signature hit.
- 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: Things We Do for Love Target entity description: "Things We Do for Love" is a darkly comic stage play by British dramatist Alan Ayckbourn that explores romantic entanglements and emotional cruelty among neighbors living in the same house.
-
A.
Things I Do for Love
"Things I Do for Love" is a musical track from the first season soundtrack of the television series Game of Thrones, composed by Ramin Djawadi.
-
B.
Our Love
"Our Love" is a song featured on Donna Summer's influential disco album "Bad Girls."
-
C.
Our Love Affair
"Our Love Affair" is a romantic popular song from the 1940 MGM musical film *Strike Up the Band*, composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
-
D.
What Love Can Do
"What Love Can Do" is a song by Bruce Springsteen featured on his 2009 rock album *Working on a Dream*.
-
E.
What You Won't Do for Love
"What You Won't Do for Love" is a smooth jazz-inflected R&B love song by Bobby Caldwell, released in 1978 and widely regarded as his signature hit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dark comedy
ⓘ
stage play ⓘ |
| author | Alan Ayckbourn ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dramaticDevice |
contrasting simultaneous action on different floors
ⓘ
farce elements ⓘ physical comedy ⓘ |
| explores |
emotional manipulation
ⓘ
power dynamics in relationships ⓘ self-deception in love ⓘ the gap between appearances and reality in domestic life ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
dark comedy ⓘ drama ⓘ |
| hasCharacterType |
middle-class professionals
ⓘ
romantically entangled neighbors ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
destructive aspects of love
ⓘ
romantic entanglements among neighbors ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
emotional cruelty
ⓘ
infidelity ⓘ obsessive love ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | neighbors in the same house ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Alan Ayckbourn plays ⓘ |
| setting |
a house divided into flats
ⓘ
contemporary England ⓘ |
| structure | three-level set showing different floors of the same house ⓘ |
| tone |
bitter-sweet
ⓘ
darkly comic ⓘ satirical ⓘ |
| writer | Alan Ayckbourn ⓘ |
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: Things We Do for Love Description of subject: "Things We Do for Love" is a darkly comic stage play by British dramatist Alan Ayckbourn that explores romantic entanglements and emotional cruelty among neighbors living in the same house.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.