Lady for a Day
E191712
Lady for a Day is a 1933 American comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra, based on a Damon Runyon story about a poor street peddler transformed into a society lady.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lady for a Day canonical | 7 |
| Lady for a Day (1933 film) | 1 |
| Lady for a Night | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1687337 — 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: Lady for a Day Context triple: [Robert Riskin, notableWork, Lady for a Day]
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A.
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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B.
The Seven Year Itch
The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 romantic comedy film best known for Marilyn Monroe’s iconic subway-grate dress scene and its satirical take on mid-century marriage and temptation.
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C.
Silk Stockings
Silk Stockings is a 1957 musical film adaptation of the stage musical (itself based on the film Ninotchka), best known for starring Fred Astaire in one of his final major screen musical roles.
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D.
Some Like It Hot
Some Like It Hot is a classic 1959 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon, widely acclaimed for its witty script and cross-dressing hijinks.
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E.
The Gay Divorcee
The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, celebrated for its elegant dance sequences and classic songs.
- 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: Lady for a Day Target entity description: Lady for a Day is a 1933 American comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra, based on a Damon Runyon story about a poor street peddler transformed into a society lady.
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A.
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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B.
The Seven Year Itch
The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 romantic comedy film best known for Marilyn Monroe’s iconic subway-grate dress scene and its satirical take on mid-century marriage and temptation.
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C.
Silk Stockings
Silk Stockings is a 1957 musical film adaptation of the stage musical (itself based on the film Ninotchka), best known for starring Fred Astaire in one of his final major screen musical roles.
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D.
Some Like It Hot
Some Like It Hot is a classic 1959 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon, widely acclaimed for its witty script and cross-dressing hijinks.
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E.
The Gay Divorcee
The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, celebrated for its elegant dance sequences and classic songs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Lady for a Day Description of subject: Lady for a Day is a 1933 American comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra, based on a Damon Runyon story about a poor street peddler transformed into a society lady.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lady for a Day (1933 film)
this entity surface form:
Lady for a Night