Substitutiary Locomotion
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"Substitutiary Locomotion" is a magical, tongue-twisting song from Disney’s 1971 film *Bedknobs and Broomsticks*, in which an apprentice witch uses a spell to bring inanimate objects to life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Substitutiary Locomotion canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5228284 — 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: Substitutiary Locomotion Context triple: [Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971 film songs), hasSong, Substitutiary Locomotion]
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A.
Traction
Traction is the common nickname for the Citroën Traction Avant, a pioneering French automobile famous for its early use of front-wheel drive and unitary body construction.
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B.
Omnimover
Omnimover is a continuously moving ride system used in Disney theme park attractions to transport guests smoothly through elaborately themed environments.
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C.
Loco
Loco is one of the three glamorous, husband-seeking female characters in the romantic comedy "How to Marry a Millionaire," known for her comedic charm and gold-digging aspirations.
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D.
Crawlerway
Crawlerway is the massive, specially engineered roadway at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center used to transport rockets and spacecraft atop crawler-transporters between assembly and launch pads.
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E.
Trigno
Trigno is a river in central Italy that flows through the regions of Molise and Abruzzo before emptying into the Adriatic Sea.
- 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: Substitutiary Locomotion Target entity description: "Substitutiary Locomotion" is a magical, tongue-twisting song from Disney’s 1971 film *Bedknobs and Broomsticks*, in which an apprentice witch uses a spell to bring inanimate objects to life.
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A.
Traction
Traction is the common nickname for the Citroën Traction Avant, a pioneering French automobile famous for its early use of front-wheel drive and unitary body construction.
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B.
Omnimover
Omnimover is a continuously moving ride system used in Disney theme park attractions to transport guests smoothly through elaborately themed environments.
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C.
Loco
Loco is one of the three glamorous, husband-seeking female characters in the romantic comedy "How to Marry a Millionaire," known for her comedic charm and gold-digging aspirations.
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D.
Crawlerway
Crawlerway is the massive, specially engineered roadway at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center used to transport rockets and spacecraft atop crawler-transporters between assembly and launch pads.
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E.
Trigno
Trigno is a river in central Italy that flows through the regions of Molise and Abruzzo before emptying into the Adriatic Sea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | song ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Bedknobs and Broomsticks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithFranchise | Bedknobs and Broomsticks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithStudio | Disney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnConcept | magic spell ⓘ |
| characterType | apprentice witch ⓘ |
| composer |
Richard M. Sherman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert B. Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| describedAs |
magical song
ⓘ
tongue-twisting song ⓘ |
| diegetic | true ⓘ |
| featuredIn | live-action/animated hybrid film ⓘ |
| fictionalDiscipline | witchcraft ⓘ |
| fictionalEffect | causes objects to move on their own ⓘ |
| fictionalSpellName | Substitutiary Locomotion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1971 ⓘ |
| genre |
film musical number
ⓘ
musical ⓘ show tune ⓘ |
| hasFictionalIncantation | Treguna Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
central to plot sequence involving animated objects
ⓘ
requires precise pronunciation in story ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
animation of objects
ⓘ
magic ⓘ |
| hasType | musical number ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist |
Richard M. Sherman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert B. Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lyricsBy |
Richard M. Sherman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert B. Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Richard M. Sherman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert B. Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | brings inanimate objects to life ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complex magical incantation lyrics
ⓘ
use of animated objects in live-action scenes ⓘ |
| partOf | Bedknobs and Broomsticks soundtrack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedByCharacter | Eglantine Price NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Walt Disney Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingInFilm | World War II-era England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | family ⓘ |
| title | Substitutiary Locomotion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor | animating inanimate objects ⓘ |
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: Substitutiary Locomotion Description of subject: "Substitutiary Locomotion" is a magical, tongue-twisting song from Disney’s 1971 film *Bedknobs and Broomsticks*, in which an apprentice witch uses a spell to bring inanimate objects to life.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.