Road Show
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Road Show is a Stephen Sondheim musical that chronicles the restless, fortune-seeking lives of the Mizner brothers across early 20th-century America.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Road Show canonical | 1 |
| Road Show (Finale) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3510470 — 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: Road Show Context triple: [Stephen Sondheim, notableWork, Road Show]
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A.
Rock Show
"Rock Show" is a Paul McCartney and Wings rock song best known as a high-energy concert anthem from their 1975 album *Venus and Mars*.
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B.
Parade
Parade is a groundbreaking 1917 ballet with music by Erik Satie and designs by Pablo Picasso, created for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and noted for its avant-garde fusion of art, theater, and dance.
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C.
Parade
"Parade" is a 1986 album by Prince and The Revolution that serves as the soundtrack to the film "Under the Cherry Moon" and features the hit single "Kiss."
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D.
Rock of Ages
Rock of Ages is a jukebox musical film set in 1980s Los Angeles that features classic rock songs and an ensemble cast including Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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E.
The Show Goes On
"The Show Goes On" is a popular hip-hop single by Lupe Fiasco known for its uplifting message and prominent sample of Modest Mouse's "Float On."
- 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: Road Show Target entity description: Road Show is a Stephen Sondheim musical that chronicles the restless, fortune-seeking lives of the Mizner brothers across early 20th-century America.
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A.
Rock Show
"Rock Show" is a Paul McCartney and Wings rock song best known as a high-energy concert anthem from their 1975 album *Venus and Mars*.
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B.
Parade
Parade is a groundbreaking 1917 ballet with music by Erik Satie and designs by Pablo Picasso, created for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and noted for its avant-garde fusion of art, theater, and dance.
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C.
Parade
"Parade" is a 1986 album by Prince and The Revolution that serves as the soundtrack to the film "Under the Cherry Moon" and features the hit single "Kiss."
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D.
Rock of Ages
Rock of Ages is a jukebox musical film set in 1980s Los Angeles that features classic rock songs and an ensemble cast including Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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E.
The Show Goes On
"The Show Goes On" is a popular hip-hop single by Lupe Fiasco known for its uplifting message and prominent sample of Modest Mouse's "Float On."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
musical
ⓘ
stage work ⓘ |
| basedOn | lives of the Mizner brothers ⓘ |
| bookBy | John Weidman ⓘ |
| centralRelationship | bond between Addison and Wilson Mizner ⓘ |
| chronicles | restless, fortune-seeking lives of the Mizner brothers across early 20th-century America ⓘ |
| collaborator | John Weidman ⓘ |
| composer | Stephen Sondheim ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| developmentHistory | underwent multiple rewrites over several years ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Addison Mizner
ⓘ
Hollis Bessemer ⓘ Mama Mizner ⓘ Wilson Mizner ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical musical
ⓘ
concept musical ⓘ musical theatre ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
American capitalism
ⓘ
failure and success ⓘ family relationships ⓘ fortune seeking ⓘ identity ⓘ love between men ⓘ restlessness ⓘ American Dream ⓘ
surface form:
the American Dream
|
| includesSong |
Addison’s Trip
ⓘ
City of Boca Raton, Florida ⓘ
surface form:
Boca Raton
Isn’t He Something ⓘ Road Show self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Road Show (Finale)
The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened ⓘ Waste ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Stephen Sondheim ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | story told after the brothers’ deaths ⓘ |
| portrays |
American entrepreneurial culture
ⓘ
Florida land boom ⓘ Klondike Gold Rush (1897–1898) ⓘ
surface form:
Yukon Gold Rush
|
| previousTitle |
Bounce
ⓘ
Wise Guys ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| structure | nonlinear narrative ⓘ |
| subject |
Addison Mizner
ⓘ
Wilson Mizner ⓘ |
| workOf | Stephen Sondheim ⓘ |
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: Road Show Description of subject: Road Show is a Stephen Sondheim musical that chronicles the restless, fortune-seeking lives of the Mizner brothers across early 20th-century America.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Road Show (Finale)