Can-Can
E125536
Can-Can is a 1953 Broadway musical by Cole Porter, best known for its lively Parisian setting and memorable score featuring songs like "I Love Paris."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Can-Can canonical | 7 |
| Can-Can (1960 film) | 2 |
| "Can-Can" (Broadway, 1953) | 1 |
| French can-can | 1 |
| musical "Can-Can" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1005656 — 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: Can-Can Context triple: [Cole Porter, notableWork, Can-Can]
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A.
High Society
High Society is a 1956 musical romantic comedy film, starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra, that reimagines the play and film The Philadelphia Story with a jazz-infused score by Cole Porter.
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B.
On the Town
On the Town is a 1944 Broadway musical with music by Leonard Bernstein that follows three sailors on 24-hour shore leave in New York City, later adapted into a popular 1949 film.
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C.
Ziegfeld Girl
Ziegfeld Girl is a 1941 MGM musical drama film that follows the intertwined lives and romances of three women who become performers in the famed Ziegfeld Follies.
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D.
Ain't Misbehavin'
"Ain't Misbehavin'" is a classic jazz and swing standard, originally from the 1929 musical revue "Hot Chocolates," that became widely popular through performances by artists including Louis Armstrong.
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E.
The Band Wagon
The Band Wagon is a classic 1953 MGM musical film starring Fred Astaire, celebrated for its sophisticated song-and-dance numbers and backstage showbiz storyline.
- 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: Can-Can Target entity description: Can-Can is a 1953 Broadway musical by Cole Porter, best known for its lively Parisian setting and memorable score featuring songs like "I Love Paris."
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A.
High Society
High Society is a 1956 musical romantic comedy film, starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra, that reimagines the play and film The Philadelphia Story with a jazz-infused score by Cole Porter.
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B.
On the Town
On the Town is a 1944 Broadway musical with music by Leonard Bernstein that follows three sailors on 24-hour shore leave in New York City, later adapted into a popular 1949 film.
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C.
Ziegfeld Girl
Ziegfeld Girl is a 1941 MGM musical drama film that follows the intertwined lives and romances of three women who become performers in the famed Ziegfeld Follies.
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D.
Ain't Misbehavin'
"Ain't Misbehavin'" is a classic jazz and swing standard, originally from the 1929 musical revue "Hot Chocolates," that became widely popular through performances by artists including Louis Armstrong.
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E.
The Band Wagon
The Band Wagon is a classic 1953 MGM musical film starring Fred Astaire, celebrated for its sophisticated song-and-dance numbers and backstage showbiz storyline.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Can-Can Description of subject: Can-Can is a 1953 Broadway musical by Cole Porter, best known for its lively Parisian setting and memorable score featuring songs like "I Love Paris."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
French can-can
this entity surface form:
Can-Can (1960 film)
this entity surface form:
Can-Can (1960 film)
subject surface form:
"It's All Right with Me"
this entity surface form:
musical "Can-Can"
subject surface form:
"It's All Right with Me"
this entity surface form:
"Can-Can" (Broadway, 1953)