A Prairie Home Companion
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A Prairie Home Companion is a 2006 ensemble comedy-drama film, directed by Robert Altman and based on Garrison Keillor’s long-running radio show, that portrays the backstage lives and final broadcast of a fictionalized variety program.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Prairie Home Companion canonical | 17 |
| A Prairie Home Companion (film) | 1 |
| A Prairie Home Companion (radio show) | 1 |
| “News from Lake Wobegon” segment | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2245406 — 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: A Prairie Home Companion Context triple: [Robert Altman, notableWork, A Prairie Home Companion]
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A.
The Late Show
The Late Show is a long-running American late-night talk show on CBS known for its celebrity interviews, comedy segments, and topical monologues.
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B.
The Great American Broadcast
The Great American Broadcast is a 1941 musical comedy film about the early days of radio, featuring Gary Merrill among its cast.
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C.
The Sunshine Boys
The Sunshine Boys is a 1975 comedy film, based on Neil Simon’s play, about two feuding former vaudeville partners reluctantly reunited for a television special.
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D.
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a long-running American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show known for its satirical take on politics and pop culture.
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E.
The Show of Shows
The Show of Shows is a 1929 Warner Bros. all-star revue film from the early sound era, featuring numerous studio contract players in musical and comedy sketches.
- 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: A Prairie Home Companion Target entity description: A Prairie Home Companion is a 2006 ensemble comedy-drama film, directed by Robert Altman and based on Garrison Keillor’s long-running radio show, that portrays the backstage lives and final broadcast of a fictionalized variety program.
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A.
The Late Show
The Late Show is a long-running American late-night talk show on CBS known for its celebrity interviews, comedy segments, and topical monologues.
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B.
The Great American Broadcast
The Great American Broadcast is a 1941 musical comedy film about the early days of radio, featuring Gary Merrill among its cast.
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C.
The Sunshine Boys
The Sunshine Boys is a 1975 comedy film, based on Neil Simon’s play, about two feuding former vaudeville partners reluctantly reunited for a television special.
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D.
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a long-running American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show known for its satirical take on politics and pop culture.
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E.
The Show of Shows
The Show of Shows is a 1929 Warner Bros. all-star revue film from the early sound era, featuring numerous studio contract players in musical and comedy sketches.
- 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: A Prairie Home Companion Description of subject: A Prairie Home Companion is a 2006 ensemble comedy-drama film, directed by Robert Altman and based on Garrison Keillor’s long-running radio show, that portrays the backstage lives and final broadcast of a fictionalized variety program.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
A Prairie Home Companion (radio show)
this entity surface form:
A Prairie Home Companion (film)
this entity surface form:
“News from Lake Wobegon” segment
subject surface form:
Garrison Keillor