Pacific Overtures
E363289
Pacific Overtures is a 1976 Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman that explores the Westernization of Japan in the 19th century through a stylized, Kabuki-inspired form.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pacific Overtures canonical | 3 |
| Pacific Overtures (original Broadway cast recording) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3510463 — 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: Pacific Overtures Context triple: [Stephen Sondheim, notableWork, Pacific Overtures]
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A.
Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly is a tragic opera set in Japan that tells the story of a young geisha betrayed by her American husband, renowned for its lyrical beauty and emotional intensity.
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B.
La Bayadère
La Bayadère is a grand 19th-century classical ballet, choreographed by Marius Petipa to music by Ludwig Minkus, renowned for its exotic setting and the iconic "Kingdom of the Shades" scene.
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C.
The Teahouse of the August Moon
The Teahouse of the August Moon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning Broadway comedy about post–World War II American occupation in Okinawa, later adapted into a successful film and musical.
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D.
Chukagai Odori
Chukagai Odori is a prominent street in Yokohama’s Chinatown known for its dense concentration of Chinese restaurants, shops, and cultural attractions.
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E.
Takadanobaba
Takadanobaba is a lively Tokyo neighborhood known for its student population, affordable eateries, and strong connections to nearby universities like Waseda.
- 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: Pacific Overtures Target entity description: Pacific Overtures is a 1976 Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman that explores the Westernization of Japan in the 19th century through a stylized, Kabuki-inspired form.
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A.
Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly is a tragic opera set in Japan that tells the story of a young geisha betrayed by her American husband, renowned for its lyrical beauty and emotional intensity.
-
B.
La Bayadère
La Bayadère is a grand 19th-century classical ballet, choreographed by Marius Petipa to music by Ludwig Minkus, renowned for its exotic setting and the iconic "Kingdom of the Shades" scene.
-
C.
The Teahouse of the August Moon
The Teahouse of the August Moon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning Broadway comedy about post–World War II American occupation in Okinawa, later adapted into a successful film and musical.
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D.
Chukagai Odori
Chukagai Odori is a prominent street in Yokohama’s Chinatown known for its dense concentration of Chinese restaurants, shops, and cultural attractions.
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E.
Takadanobaba
Takadanobaba is a lively Tokyo neighborhood known for its student population, affordable eateries, and strong connections to nearby universities like Waseda.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Pacific Overtures Description of subject: Pacific Overtures is a 1976 Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman that explores the Westernization of Japan in the 19th century through a stylized, Kabuki-inspired form.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Harold Prince
this entity surface form:
Pacific Overtures (original Broadway cast recording)