Follies
E136794
Follies is a celebrated Stephen Sondheim musical that nostalgically explores aging, memory, and lost dreams through a reunion of former showgirls in a crumbling Broadway theater.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Follies canonical | 12 |
| Follies (1971 Broadway production) | 1 |
| Follies (book) | 1 |
| Follies (original Broadway cast recording) | 1 |
| Follies (pre-Broadway engagement) | 1 |
| Follies (pre-Broadway tryout) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1191486 — 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: Follies Context triple: [Winter Garden Theatre, notableProduction, Follies]
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A.
Can-Can
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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B.
Between Riverside and Crazy
"Between Riverside and Crazy" is a Pulitzer Prize–winning dark comedy-drama play by Stephen Adly Guirgis that explores race, family, and gentrification through the story of a retired New York City cop fighting eviction from his rent-controlled apartment.
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C.
Babes in Arms
Babes in Arms is a 1939 American musical film, based on the Rodgers and Hart stage musical, best known for starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney as aspiring performers putting on a show.
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D.
All That Jazz
All That Jazz is a 1979 musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse that offers a semi-autobiographical, stylized look at the life of a driven, self-destructive choreographer-director.
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E.
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.
- 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: Follies Target entity description: Follies is a celebrated Stephen Sondheim musical that nostalgically explores aging, memory, and lost dreams through a reunion of former showgirls in a crumbling Broadway theater.
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A.
Can-Can
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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B.
Between Riverside and Crazy
"Between Riverside and Crazy" is a Pulitzer Prize–winning dark comedy-drama play by Stephen Adly Guirgis that explores race, family, and gentrification through the story of a retired New York City cop fighting eviction from his rent-controlled apartment.
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C.
Babes in Arms
Babes in Arms is a 1939 American musical film, based on the Rodgers and Hart stage musical, best known for starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney as aspiring performers putting on a show.
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D.
All That Jazz
All That Jazz is a 1979 musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse that offers a semi-autobiographical, stylized look at the life of a driven, self-destructive choreographer-director.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Follies Description of subject: Follies is a celebrated Stephen Sondheim musical that nostalgically explores aging, memory, and lost dreams through a reunion of former showgirls in a crumbling Broadway theater.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Follies (pre-Broadway tryout)
subject surface form:
Alvin Theatre
this entity surface form:
Follies (pre-Broadway engagement)
this entity surface form:
Follies (book)
subject surface form:
Harold Prince
this entity surface form:
Follies (1971 Broadway production)
this entity surface form:
Follies (original Broadway cast recording)