Popular

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"Popular" is a comedic, character-driven show tune from the Broadway musical Wicked, written by Stephen Schwartz and performed by the character Glinda as she attempts to give Elphaba a makeover and social advice.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Popular canonical 1
Popular Song 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf musical theatre song
show tune
song
act Act I
addressedToCharacter Wicked Witch of the West
surface form: Elphaba
associatedWithCharacter Wicked Witch of the West
surface form: Elphaba

Glinda the Good Witch
surface form: Glinda
basedOnSourceMaterial Wicked (novel)
surface form: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
basedOnWork Wicked (musical)
broadwayOpeningYear 2003
characterPerformer Glinda the Good Witch
composer Stephen Schwartz
dramaticFunction Glinda gives Elphaba a makeover
Glinda teaches Elphaba how to be socially accepted
firstPerformanceCity New York City
firstPerformanceLocation Gershwin Theatre
genre comedy song
show tune
hasMusicalStyle light-hearted
up-tempo
language English
lyricalPerspective first person
lyricist Stephen Schwartz
musical Wicked (musical)
surface form: Wicked
narrativeRole character song
comic relief number
notablePerformer Kristin Chenoweth
originalBroadwayPerformer Kristin Chenoweth
originalCastAlbum Wicked (musical)
surface form: Wicked Original Broadway Cast Recording
partOf Wicked (musical)
partOfWork Wicked (musical)
surface form: Wicked
performer Glinda the Good Witch
surface form: Glinda
settingInStory Shiz University
show Wicked (musical)
surface form: Wicked (Broadway production)
sungByCharacter Galinda Upland
Glinda the Good Witch
surface form: Glinda
theme conformity
friendship
makeover
popularity
self-image
social advice
social status
tone comic
playful
workPeriod early 2000s

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: Popular
Description of subject: "Popular" is a comedic, character-driven show tune from the Broadway musical Wicked, written by Stephen Schwartz and performed by the character Glinda as she attempts to give Elphaba a makeover and social advice.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Stephen Schwartz notableSong Popular
Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr. notableWork Popular
this entity surface form: Popular Song