Ragtime
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Ragtime is a Tony Award–winning Broadway musical that intertwines the stories of three families in early 20th-century America to explore themes of race, class, and social change.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ragtime canonical | 16 |
| Ragtime (novel) | 3 |
| Ragtime (1981 film) | 1 |
| Ragtime (Broadway) | 1 |
| Ragtime (revival) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2146788 — 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: Ragtime Context triple: [Terrence McNally, notableWork, Ragtime]
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A.
Swing Time
Swing Time is a 2016 novel by British author Zadie Smith that explores friendship, race, class, and ambition through the intertwined lives of two mixed-race girls who dream of becoming dancers.
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B.
Swing Time
Swing Time is a classic 1936 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, renowned for its innovative dance sequences and Jerome Kern–Dorothy Fields score.
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C.
Manhattan Melodrama
Manhattan Melodrama is a 1934 American crime drama film, best known for starring Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy and for being the movie John Dillinger watched before his death.
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D.
Rose in Harlem
"Rose in Harlem" is a soulful, introspective R&B song by Teyana Taylor that reflects on struggle, resilience, and personal growth.
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E.
Harlem's Nocturne
"Harlem's Nocturne" is the atmospheric, piano-driven opening track by Alicia Keys that sets a soulful, introspective tone for her album "The Diary of Alicia Keys."
- 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: Ragtime Target entity description: Ragtime is a Tony Award–winning Broadway musical that intertwines the stories of three families in early 20th-century America to explore themes of race, class, and social change.
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A.
Swing Time
Swing Time is a 2016 novel by British author Zadie Smith that explores friendship, race, class, and ambition through the intertwined lives of two mixed-race girls who dream of becoming dancers.
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B.
Swing Time
Swing Time is a classic 1936 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, renowned for its innovative dance sequences and Jerome Kern–Dorothy Fields score.
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C.
Manhattan Melodrama
Manhattan Melodrama is a 1934 American crime drama film, best known for starring Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy and for being the movie John Dillinger watched before his death.
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D.
Rose in Harlem
"Rose in Harlem" is a soulful, introspective R&B song by Teyana Taylor that reflects on struggle, resilience, and personal growth.
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E.
Harlem's Nocturne
"Harlem's Nocturne" is the atmospheric, piano-driven opening track by Alicia Keys that sets a soulful, introspective tone for her album "The Diary of Alicia Keys."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Ragtime Description of subject: Ragtime is a Tony Award–winning Broadway musical that intertwines the stories of three families in early 20th-century America to explore themes of race, class, and social change.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ragtime (Broadway)
this entity surface form:
Ragtime (revival)
this entity surface form:
Ragtime (1981 film)
this entity surface form:
Ragtime (novel)
this entity surface form:
Ragtime (novel)
subject surface form:
Terrence McNally