Mahagonny Songspiel
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Mahagonny Songspiel is a short 1927 political song-play by Bertolt Brecht (with music by Kurt Weill) that satirically portrays a hedonistic, capitalist utopia called Mahagonny.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mahagonny Songspiel canonical | 3 |
| God in Mahagonny | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1348014 — 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: Mahagonny Songspiel Context triple: [Bertolt Brecht, notableWork, Mahagonny Songspiel]
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A.
Porgy and Bess
Porgy and Bess is a landmark American opera by George Gershwin that blends classical music, jazz, and blues to depict African American life in Charleston’s Catfish Row.
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B.
Jedermann
Jedermann is a famous morality play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal that has become an iconic centerpiece of the annual Salzburg Festival.
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C.
De Zwaan
De Zwaan is a historic Dutch windmill relocated to Holland, Michigan, where it serves as the iconic centerpiece of the Windmill Island Gardens attraction.
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D.
The Cradle Will Rock
The Cradle Will Rock is a 1937 pro-labor musical by Marc Blitzstein, famous for its controversial, government-censored premiere and its association with Orson Welles and the American leftist theater movement.
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E.
Show Boat
Show Boat is a landmark American musical, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II, that broke new ground by integrating serious themes and complex characters into its storytelling.
- 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: Mahagonny Songspiel Target entity description: Mahagonny Songspiel is a short 1927 political song-play by Bertolt Brecht (with music by Kurt Weill) that satirically portrays a hedonistic, capitalist utopia called Mahagonny.
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A.
Porgy and Bess
Porgy and Bess is a landmark American opera by George Gershwin that blends classical music, jazz, and blues to depict African American life in Charleston’s Catfish Row.
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B.
Jedermann
Jedermann is a famous morality play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal that has become an iconic centerpiece of the annual Salzburg Festival.
-
C.
De Zwaan
De Zwaan is a historic Dutch windmill relocated to Holland, Michigan, where it serves as the iconic centerpiece of the Windmill Island Gardens attraction.
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D.
The Cradle Will Rock
The Cradle Will Rock is a 1937 pro-labor musical by Marc Blitzstein, famous for its controversial, government-censored premiere and its association with Orson Welles and the American leftist theater movement.
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E.
Show Boat
Show Boat is a landmark American musical, with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II, that broke new ground by integrating serious themes and complex characters into its storytelling.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
political theatre
ⓘ
song-play ⓘ stage work ⓘ |
| approximateDuration | short ⓘ |
| composer | Kurt Weill ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| creator | Bertolt Brecht ⓘ |
| depicts |
capitalism
ⓘ
hedonism ⓘ utopian city ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1927 ⓘ |
| genre |
epic theatre
ⓘ
music theatre ⓘ political satire ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Alabama Song
ⓘ
Benares Song ⓘ Finale ⓘ Mahagonny Songspiel self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
God in Mahagonny
Whisky Song ⓘ |
| hasSetting | Mahagonny ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
class conflict
ⓘ
moral decay ⓘ pleasure and destruction ⓘ social criticism ⓘ |
| influenced |
20th-century political musical theatre
ⓘ
later Brecht–Weill collaborations ⓘ |
| intendedMedium | stage ⓘ |
| movement |
Weimar Republic culture
ⓘ
modernism ⓘ |
| musicStyle |
cabaret
ⓘ
jazz-influenced ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration | Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| period | interwar period ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1927 ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny ⓘ |
| satirizes |
bourgeois values
ⓘ
capitalist society ⓘ consumerism ⓘ |
| theatricalForm | song-play ⓘ |
| title | Mahagonny Songspiel self-link ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Mahagonny Songspiel Description of subject: Mahagonny Songspiel is a short 1927 political song-play by Bertolt Brecht (with music by Kurt Weill) that satirically portrays a hedonistic, capitalist utopia called Mahagonny.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
God in Mahagonny