There's No Business Like Show Business
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"There's No Business Like Show Business" is a classic American show tune from the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun that became one of the most iconic songs celebrating the world of entertainment.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1657608 — 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: There's No Business Like Show Business Context triple: [Irving Berlin, notableWork, There's No Business Like Show Business]
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A.
Anything Goes
"Anything Goes" is a classic 1934 Broadway musical by Cole Porter, celebrated for its witty lyrics, memorable songs, and farcical romantic plot set aboard an ocean liner.
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B.
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.
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C.
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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D.
Broadway Melody of 1940
Broadway Melody of 1940 is a classic Hollywood musical film best known for its sophisticated song-and-dance numbers and the celebrated pairing of Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell.
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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: There's No Business Like Show Business Target entity description: "There's No Business Like Show Business" is a classic American show tune from the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun that became one of the most iconic songs celebrating the world of entertainment.
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A.
Anything Goes
"Anything Goes" is a classic 1934 Broadway musical by Cole Porter, celebrated for its witty lyrics, memorable songs, and farcical romantic plot set aboard an ocean liner.
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B.
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.
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C.
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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D.
Broadway Melody of 1940
Broadway Melody of 1940 is a classic Hollywood musical film best known for its sophisticated song-and-dance numbers and the celebrated pairing of Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell.
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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 (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
popular song
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show tune ⓘ song ⓘ |
| associatedPerformer | Ethel Merman ⓘ |
| associatedWork |
There's No Business Like Show Business
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surface form:
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954 film)
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| composer | Irving Berlin ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describedAs |
anthem of show business
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classic American show tune ⓘ |
| describes | show business ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceIn |
Annie Get Your Gun (1946 Broadway musical)
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surface form:
Annie Get Your Gun (original Broadway production)
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| genre |
musical theatre
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show tune ⓘ |
| hasChorusLine |
Everything about it is appealing
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There's No Business Like Show Business self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
There's no business like show business
There's no people like show people ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact | became one of the most iconic songs celebrating the world of entertainment ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn | subsequent songs about show business ⓘ |
| includedIn | American popular song standards repertoire ⓘ |
| introducedIn |
Annie Get Your Gun (1946 Broadway musical)
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surface form:
Annie Get Your Gun (1946 musical)
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| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Irving Berlin ⓘ |
| notablePerformer | Ethel Merman ⓘ |
| originalMedium | stage musical ⓘ |
| partOf |
Annie Get Your Gun (1950 film)
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surface form:
Annie Get Your Gun
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| performanceContext | Broadway musical theatre ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1946 ⓘ |
| recordedBy |
Bing Crosby
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Ethel Merman ⓘ Judy Garland ⓘ Mary Martin ⓘ Various cast recordings of Annie Get Your Gun ⓘ |
| theme | celebration of the entertainment industry ⓘ |
| usedAs | signature song for Ethel Merman ⓘ |
| writer | Irving Berlin ⓘ |
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: There's No Business Like Show Business Description of subject: "There's No Business Like Show Business" is a classic American show tune from the 1946 musical Annie Get Your Gun that became one of the most iconic songs celebrating the world of entertainment.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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There’s No Business Like Show Business
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There’s No Business Like Show Business
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There’s No Business Like Show Business
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There’s No Business Like Show Business
There's No Business Like Show Business
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associatedWork
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There's No Business Like Show Business
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this entity surface form:
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954 film)
There's No Business Like Show Business
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hasChorusLine
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There's No Business Like Show Business
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this entity surface form:
There's no business like show business
Irving Berlin Music Corporation
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hasNotableWorkInCatalog
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There's No Business Like Show Business
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this entity surface form:
There’s No Business Like Show Business
Annie Get Your Gun (1946 Broadway musical)
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featuresSong
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There's No Business Like Show Business
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this entity surface form:
There’s No Business Like Show Business
this entity surface form:
There’s No Business Like Show Business