The Wiz (film)

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American film film musical fantasy film

The Wiz is a 1978 musical fantasy film adaptation of the Broadway show reimagining The Wizard of Oz with an African-American cast, starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
The Wiz	10
The Wiz (1978 film)	1
The Wiz (film) canonical	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American film ⓘ film ⓘ musical fantasy film ⓘ
artDirectionStyle	urban reimagining of Oz ⓘ
basedOn	The Wiz (revival) ⓘ surface form: The Wiz (musical) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ⓘ
boxOfficePerformance	box office disappointment ⓘ
character	The Cowardly Lion ⓘ surface form: Cowardly Lion Dorothy Gale ⓘ Evillene ⓘ Glinda the Good Witch ⓘ The Scarecrow ⓘ surface form: Scarecrow The Wiz (film) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: The Wiz The Tin Man ⓘ surface form: Tin Man
cinematographer	Oswald Morris ⓘ
composer	Charlie Smalls ⓘ Quincy Jones ⓘ
costumeDesigner	Tony Walton ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
director	Sidney Lumet ⓘ
distributor	Universal Pictures ⓘ
editor	Alan Heim ⓘ
featuresCastType	predominantly African-American cast ⓘ
genre	adventure film ⓘ family film ⓘ fantasy film ⓘ musical film ⓘ
hasCultFollowing	true ⓘ
narrativeLocation	Oz ⓘ
notableSong	Ease On Down the Road ⓘ surface form: Ease on Down the Road Home ⓘ
originalLanguage	English ⓘ
partOfFranchise	The Wizard of Oz adaptations ⓘ
producer	Ken Harper ⓘ Rob Cohen ⓘ
productionCompany	Universal Pictures ⓘ
ratingMPAA	G ⓘ
releaseDate	1978-10-24 ⓘ
releaseYear	1978 ⓘ
runningTime	134 minutes ⓘ
screenwriter	Joel Schumacher ⓘ
setIn	New York City ⓘ
starring	Diana Ross ⓘ Lena Horne ⓘ Michael Jackson ⓘ Nipsey Russell ⓘ Richard Pryor ⓘ Ted Ross ⓘ

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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: The Wiz (film)
Description of subject: The Wiz is a 1978 musical fantasy film adaptation of the Broadway show reimagining The Wizard of Oz with an African-American cast, starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson.