The College Widow
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The College Widow is a 1904 stage comedy by George Ade that satirizes college life and football culture, later serving as the basis for several adaptations in theater and film.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The College Widow canonical | 5 |
| The College Widow (1915 film) | 1 |
| The College Widow (1927 film) | 1 |
| The College Widow (play) | 1 |
| The College Widow (stage adaptations) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10954589 — 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)
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Target entity: The College Widow Context triple: [Leave It to Jane, basedOn, The College Widow]
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A.
Fresh Widow
Fresh Widow is a 1920 surrealist-style miniature French window sculpture by Marcel Duchamp that playfully subverts traditional painting and sculpture through its punning title and use of covered panes.
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B.
The Widower
The Widower is a poignant 19th-century social realist painting by Samuel Luke Fildes depicting a grieving father caring for his children in the aftermath of his wife's death.
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C.
The Widow’s Breakfast
The Widow’s Breakfast is a short story by Joe Hill, included in his horror and dark fantasy collection "20th Century Ghosts."
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D.
The Pregnant Widow
The Pregnant Widow is a darkly comic novel by Martin Amis that explores sexual politics, aging, and the aftermath of the 1960s sexual revolution through a group of friends on an Italian holiday.
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E.
The Five Wives
The Five Wives are a group of captive women in Mad Max: Fury Road who serve as the tyrant Immortan Joe’s prized breeders and become central to Imperator Furiosa’s rebellion.
- 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: The College Widow Target entity description: The College Widow is a 1904 stage comedy by George Ade that satirizes college life and football culture, later serving as the basis for several adaptations in theater and film.
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A.
Fresh Widow
Fresh Widow is a 1920 surrealist-style miniature French window sculpture by Marcel Duchamp that playfully subverts traditional painting and sculpture through its punning title and use of covered panes.
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B.
The Widower
The Widower is a poignant 19th-century social realist painting by Samuel Luke Fildes depicting a grieving father caring for his children in the aftermath of his wife's death.
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C.
The Widow’s Breakfast
The Widow’s Breakfast is a short story by Joe Hill, included in his horror and dark fantasy collection "20th Century Ghosts."
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D.
The Pregnant Widow
The Pregnant Widow is a darkly comic novel by Martin Amis that explores sexual politics, aging, and the aftermath of the 1960s sexual revolution through a group of friends on an Italian holiday.
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E.
The Five Wives
The Five Wives are a group of captive women in Mad Max: Fury Road who serve as the tyrant Immortan Joe’s prized breeders and become central to Imperator Furiosa’s rebellion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
play
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stage comedy ⓘ |
| author | George Ade ⓘ |
| basedOn | American college culture ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| depicts |
college athletics culture
ⓘ
intercollegiate football rivalry ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1904 ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Maybe It’s Love (1930 film)
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The College Widow (1915 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The College Widow
The College Widow (1927 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The College Widow
The College Widow (stage adaptations) ⓘ
linked to:
The College Widow
|
| hasGenre | satire ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
commercialization of college sports
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rivalry between colleges ⓘ romantic intrigue ⓘ social life of students ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The College Widow ⓘ |
| influenced | later college-themed stage comedies ⓘ |
| isBasisFor |
multiple film adaptations
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multiple theatrical adaptations ⓘ |
| literaryForm | satire ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
American college football
ⓘ
college life ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | George Ade ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | early 20th-century American popular theatre ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1904 ⓘ |
| setting | American college campus ⓘ |
| workPeriod | Progressive Era ⓘ |
| writer | George Ade ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: The College Widow Description of subject: The College Widow is a 1904 stage comedy by George Ade that satirizes college life and football culture, later serving as the basis for several adaptations in theater and film.
Referenced by (9)
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song "The College Widow"
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