Half a Sixpence (musical)
E182827
Half a Sixpence is a British stage musical, with music and lyrics by David Heneker, based on H.G. Wells’s novel "Kipps" about an orphaned draper’s assistant who unexpectedly inherits a fortune.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Half a Sixpence | 3 |
| Broadway production of Half a Sixpence | 1 |
| Half a Sixpence (1967 film) | 1 |
| Half a Sixpence (2016 stage adaptation) | 1 |
| Half a Sixpence (musical) canonical | 1 |
| “Half a Sixpence” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1616549 — 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: Half a Sixpence (musical) Context triple: [Kipps, hasAdaptation, Half a Sixpence (musical)]
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Yeomen of the Guard
The Yeomen of the Guard are the monarch’s ceremonial bodyguards in the United Kingdom, known as one of the oldest royal military corps and recognizable by their distinctive Tudor-style uniforms.
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Sweeney Todd (stage production)
Sweeney Todd is a dark, critically acclaimed stage musical—most famously composed by Stephen Sondheim—that tells the macabre story of a vengeful barber in Victorian London.
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C.
Stage Door
Stage Door is a 1937 American comedy-drama film about aspiring actresses living in a New York boarding house, noted for its sharp dialogue and ensemble cast including Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers.
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D.
The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance is a comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan that satirizes Victorian society through the misadventures of an apprentice pirate and his absurdly honorable comrades.
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E.
Finian's Rainbow
Finian's Rainbow is a 1968 musical fantasy film, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on the Broadway stage musical, known for blending romance, satire, and social commentary with song and dance.
- 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: Half a Sixpence (musical) Target entity description: Half a Sixpence is a British stage musical, with music and lyrics by David Heneker, based on H.G. Wells’s novel "Kipps" about an orphaned draper’s assistant who unexpectedly inherits a fortune.
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A.
Yeomen of the Guard
The Yeomen of the Guard are the monarch’s ceremonial bodyguards in the United Kingdom, known as one of the oldest royal military corps and recognizable by their distinctive Tudor-style uniforms.
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B.
Sweeney Todd (stage production)
Sweeney Todd is a dark, critically acclaimed stage musical—most famously composed by Stephen Sondheim—that tells the macabre story of a vengeful barber in Victorian London.
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C.
Stage Door
Stage Door is a 1937 American comedy-drama film about aspiring actresses living in a New York boarding house, noted for its sharp dialogue and ensemble cast including Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers.
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D.
The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance is a comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan that satirizes Victorian society through the misadventures of an apprentice pirate and his absurdly honorable comrades.
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E.
Finian's Rainbow
Finian's Rainbow is a 1968 musical fantasy film, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on the Broadway stage musical, known for blending romance, satire, and social commentary with song and dance.
- 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: Half a Sixpence (musical) Description of subject: Half a Sixpence is a British stage musical, with music and lyrics by David Heneker, based on H.G. Wells’s novel "Kipps" about an orphaned draper’s assistant who unexpectedly inherits a fortune.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Half a Sixpence
Half a Sixpence (musical)
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hasFilmAdaptation
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Half a Sixpence (musical)
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Half a Sixpence (1967 film)
this entity surface form:
Half a Sixpence (2016 stage adaptation)
Half a Sixpence (musical)
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2016AdaptationTitle
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Half a Sixpence (musical)
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Half a Sixpence
this entity surface form:
“Half a Sixpence”
this entity surface form:
Broadway production of Half a Sixpence
this entity surface form:
Half a Sixpence