Damn Yankees
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"Damn Yankees" is a 1958 musical comedy film adaptation of the Broadway show about a man who makes a Faustian bargain to help his favorite baseball team win the pennant.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Damn Yankees canonical | 18 |
| Damn Yankees (1958 film) | 2 |
| Damn Yankees (musical) | 2 |
| Damn Yankees (revival) | 1 |
| Damn Yankees (stage musical) | 1 |
| Yanks | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2342004 — 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: Damn Yankees Context triple: [Stanley Donen, notableWork, Damn Yankees]
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A.
The Yanks
The Yanks is a common nickname for the United States men's national soccer team, reflecting its American identity and heritage.
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B.
The Yankee
The Yankee is the nickname of Hank Morgan, the time-traveling 19th-century engineer who becomes a powerful figure in King Arthur’s court in Mark Twain’s novel "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court."
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C.
Curse of the Bambino
Curse of the Bambino is the popular superstition that blamed the Boston Red Sox’s 86-year World Series championship drought on their 1919 sale of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.
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D.
Jammin' in New York
Jammin' in New York is a 1992 stand-up comedy special by George Carlin, celebrated for its sharp social commentary and incisive critique of American culture and politics.
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E.
The Boys in Blue
The Boys in Blue is the popular nickname for Major League Soccer club Philadelphia Union, reflecting the team’s traditional blue kit and identity.
- 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: Damn Yankees Target entity description: "Damn Yankees" is a 1958 musical comedy film adaptation of the Broadway show about a man who makes a Faustian bargain to help his favorite baseball team win the pennant.
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A.
The Yanks
The Yanks is a common nickname for the United States men's national soccer team, reflecting its American identity and heritage.
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B.
The Yankee
The Yankee is the nickname of Hank Morgan, the time-traveling 19th-century engineer who becomes a powerful figure in King Arthur’s court in Mark Twain’s novel "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court."
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C.
Curse of the Bambino
Curse of the Bambino is the popular superstition that blamed the Boston Red Sox’s 86-year World Series championship drought on their 1919 sale of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.
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D.
Jammin' in New York
Jammin' in New York is a 1992 stand-up comedy special by George Carlin, celebrated for its sharp social commentary and incisive critique of American culture and politics.
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E.
The Boys in Blue
The Boys in Blue is the popular nickname for Major League Soccer club Philadelphia Union, reflecting the team’s traditional blue kit and identity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Damn Yankees Description of subject: "Damn Yankees" is a 1958 musical comedy film adaptation of the Broadway show about a man who makes a Faustian bargain to help his favorite baseball team win the pennant.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Damn Yankees (1958 film)
this entity surface form:
Yanks
this entity surface form:
Damn Yankees (musical)
this entity surface form:
Damn Yankees (stage musical)
this entity surface form:
Damn Yankees (musical)
this entity surface form:
Damn Yankees (revival)
subject surface form:
Harold Prince
subject surface form:
Gwen Verdon
subject surface form:
Lola (Damn Yankees)
subject surface form:
Lola (Damn Yankees)
this entity surface form:
Damn Yankees (1958 film)
subject surface form:
Gwen Verdon