Tall Story (play adaptation)
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Tall Story (play adaptation) is a stage comedy by Howard Lindsay, adapted from the novel "The Homecoming Game" and best known for its humorous take on college basketball and romantic entanglements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tall Story (play adaptation) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9326506 — 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: Tall Story (play adaptation) Context triple: [Howard Lindsay, notableWork, Tall Story (play adaptation)]
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The Tall Story
The Tall Story is a work by British poet and painter Frieda Hughes, reflecting her distinctive, often darkly lyrical voice shaped by her literary heritage.
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B.
The Playhouse
The Playhouse is a 1921 silent short comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton, famous for its groundbreaking multiple-exposure effects that show Keaton playing nearly every role on screen.
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C.
Terra Nova (play)
Terra Nova is a stage play by Ted Tally that dramatizes Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Antarctic expedition, blending historical fact with psychological exploration.
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D.
Das kleine Welttheater
Das kleine Welttheater is a short allegorical play by Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal that adapts the medieval “theatrum mundi” motif to explore human roles and destiny.
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E.
Faerie Tale Theatre
Faerie Tale Theatre is an American television anthology series from the 1980s that presents live-action adaptations of classic fairy tales, created and hosted by actress Shelley Duvall.
- 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: Tall Story (play adaptation) Target entity description: Tall Story (play adaptation) is a stage comedy by Howard Lindsay, adapted from the novel "The Homecoming Game" and best known for its humorous take on college basketball and romantic entanglements.
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A.
The Tall Story
The Tall Story is a work by British poet and painter Frieda Hughes, reflecting her distinctive, often darkly lyrical voice shaped by her literary heritage.
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B.
The Playhouse
The Playhouse is a 1921 silent short comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton, famous for its groundbreaking multiple-exposure effects that show Keaton playing nearly every role on screen.
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C.
Terra Nova (play)
Terra Nova is a stage play by Ted Tally that dramatizes Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Antarctic expedition, blending historical fact with psychological exploration.
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D.
Das kleine Welttheater
Das kleine Welttheater is a short allegorical play by Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal that adapts the medieval “theatrum mundi” motif to explore human roles and destiny.
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E.
The High Ground (play)
The High Ground is a stage play written by Leueen MacGrath, best known as part of her body of work as a mid-20th-century playwright and screenwriter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | stage play ⓘ |
| adaptationType | stage adaptation ⓘ |
| adaptedFromWorkType | novel ⓘ |
| author | Howard Lindsay ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Homecoming Game
ⓘ
novel The Homecoming Game ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
sports comedy ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | theatre ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
humorous take on college basketball
ⓘ
romantic entanglements ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blend of sports and romantic comedy elements
ⓘ
humorous portrayal of college basketball culture ⓘ |
| playwright | Howard Lindsay ⓘ |
| setting | American college campus ⓘ |
| subject |
college basketball
ⓘ
romantic relationships ⓘ |
| title | Tall Story ⓘ |
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: Tall Story (play adaptation) Description of subject: Tall Story (play adaptation) is a stage comedy by Howard Lindsay, adapted from the novel "The Homecoming Game" and best known for its humorous take on college basketball and romantic entanglements.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.