The Distaff Side
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The Distaff Side is a 1933 stage comedy by British playwright John Van Druten that centers on the lives and relationships of several women in an upper-middle-class English family.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Distaff Side canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13881486 — 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 Distaff Side Context triple: [John Van Druten, notableWork, The Distaff Side]
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A.
Three Women
Three Women is a 1921 Cubist-inspired painting by Fernand Léger that depicts three stylized female figures in a bold, mechanized, and brightly colored composition emblematic of his “machine aesthetic.”
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B.
The Iron Petticoat
The Iron Petticoat is a 1956 Cold War romantic comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn as a Soviet pilot opposite Bob Hope as a British officer.
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C.
The Affected Ladies
The Affected Ladies is an English title for Molière’s one-act satirical comedy that mocks the pretentiousness and affectations of certain Parisian women in 17th-century high society.
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D.
A Woman’s Tale
A Woman’s Tale is a 1991 Australian drama film by director Paul Cox that poignantly portrays the final days and emotional resilience of an elderly woman facing terminal illness.
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E.
Women of the House
Women of the House is a mid-1990s American sitcom and spin-off of Designing Women that follows Suzanne Sugarbaker’s misadventures in Washington, D.C., featuring Patricia Heaton in a supporting role.
- 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 Distaff Side Target entity description: The Distaff Side is a 1933 stage comedy by British playwright John Van Druten that centers on the lives and relationships of several women in an upper-middle-class English family.
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A.
Three Women
Three Women is a 1921 Cubist-inspired painting by Fernand Léger that depicts three stylized female figures in a bold, mechanized, and brightly colored composition emblematic of his “machine aesthetic.”
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B.
The Iron Petticoat
The Iron Petticoat is a 1956 Cold War romantic comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn as a Soviet pilot opposite Bob Hope as a British officer.
-
C.
The Affected Ladies
The Affected Ladies is an English title for Molière’s one-act satirical comedy that mocks the pretentiousness and affectations of certain Parisian women in 17th-century high society.
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D.
A Woman’s Tale
A Woman’s Tale is a 1991 Australian drama film by director Paul Cox that poignantly portrays the final days and emotional resilience of an elderly woman facing terminal illness.
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E.
Women of the House
Women of the House is a mid-1990s American sitcom and spin-off of Designing Women that follows Suzanne Sugarbaker’s misadventures in Washington, D.C., featuring Patricia Heaton in a supporting role.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.