Subways Are for Sleeping
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Subways Are for Sleeping is a 1961 Broadway musical comedy with book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne, loosely based on a book about people living in New York’s subway system.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Subways Are for Sleeping canonical | 5 |
| Subways Are for Sleeping (book) | 1 |
| Subways Are for Sleeping (original Broadway cast recording) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3367204 — 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: Subways Are for Sleeping Context triple: [Betty Comden, notableWork, Subways Are for Sleeping]
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A.
Take the "A" Train
"Take the 'A' Train" is a classic jazz standard composed by Billy Strayhorn that became the signature tune of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and one of the most famous pieces in big band jazz.
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B.
Living for the City
"Living for the City" is a socially conscious 1973 soul song by Stevie Wonder that powerfully depicts systemic racism and urban struggle through vivid storytelling and innovative production.
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C.
Bright Lights, Big City
Bright Lights, Big City is a 1988 drama film, based on Jay McInerney’s novel, that portrays a young man’s disintegration amid New York City’s 1980s nightlife and cocaine-fueled publishing scene.
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D.
Sleep Through the Static
Sleep Through the Static is a mellow, acoustic-driven studio album by singer-songwriter Jack Johnson that blends laid-back surf rock with introspective, environmentally conscious themes.
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E.
Sleeper
Sleeper is a 1973 science-fiction comedy film by Woody Allen that satirizes futuristic society through the misadventures of a man who wakes up 200 years after being cryogenically frozen.
- 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: Subways Are for Sleeping Target entity description: Subways Are for Sleeping is a 1961 Broadway musical comedy with book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne, loosely based on a book about people living in New York’s subway system.
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A.
Take the "A" Train
"Take the 'A' Train" is a classic jazz standard composed by Billy Strayhorn that became the signature tune of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and one of the most famous pieces in big band jazz.
-
B.
Living for the City
"Living for the City" is a socially conscious 1973 soul song by Stevie Wonder that powerfully depicts systemic racism and urban struggle through vivid storytelling and innovative production.
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C.
Bright Lights, Big City
Bright Lights, Big City is a 1988 drama film, based on Jay McInerney’s novel, that portrays a young man’s disintegration amid New York City’s 1980s nightlife and cocaine-fueled publishing scene.
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D.
Sleep Through the Static
Sleep Through the Static is a mellow, acoustic-driven studio album by singer-songwriter Jack Johnson that blends laid-back surf rock with introspective, environmentally conscious themes.
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E.
Sleeper
Sleeper is a 1973 science-fiction comedy film by Woody Allen that satirizes futuristic society through the misadventures of a man who wakes up 200 years after being cryogenically frozen.
- 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: Subways Are for Sleeping Description of subject: Subways Are for Sleeping is a 1961 Broadway musical comedy with book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne, loosely based on a book about people living in New York’s subway system.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Betty Comden
this entity surface form:
Subways Are for Sleeping (book)
Subways Are for Sleeping
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hasOriginalCastAlbum
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Subways Are for Sleeping
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this entity surface form:
Subways Are for Sleeping (original Broadway cast recording)