Side Show
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Side Show is a Broadway musical by composer Henry Krieger that dramatizes the lives of conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton in the world of 1930s sideshow entertainment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Side Show canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6278948 — 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: Side Show Context triple: [Henry Krieger, notableWork, Side Show]
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A.
Palookaville
Palookaville is a 2004 studio album by British DJ and producer Norman Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim, blending big beat, electronic, and alternative influences.
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B.
Tootsie
Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film in which Dustin Hoffman plays an out-of-work actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a role, leading to unexpected fame and complications.
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C.
Peepshow
"Peepshow" is a 1988 studio album by British post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees, noted for its eclectic, experimental sound and critical acclaim.
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D.
Bullets over Broadway
Bullets over Broadway is a 1994 comedy film directed by Woody Allen about a struggling playwright who becomes entangled with gangsters while trying to stage his Broadway show.
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E.
Elwood Blues
Elwood Blues is a fictional harmonica-playing musician and one half of the comedic rhythm and blues duo The Blues Brothers, famously portrayed by Dan Aykroyd.
- 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: Side Show Target entity description: Side Show is a Broadway musical by composer Henry Krieger that dramatizes the lives of conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton in the world of 1930s sideshow entertainment.
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A.
Palookaville
Palookaville is a 2004 studio album by British DJ and producer Norman Cook, better known as Fatboy Slim, blending big beat, electronic, and alternative influences.
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B.
Tootsie
Tootsie is a 1982 American comedy film in which Dustin Hoffman plays an out-of-work actor who disguises himself as a woman to land a role, leading to unexpected fame and complications.
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C.
Peepshow
"Peepshow" is a 1988 studio album by British post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees, noted for its eclectic, experimental sound and critical acclaim.
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D.
Bullets over Broadway
Bullets over Broadway is a 1994 comedy film directed by Woody Allen about a struggling playwright who becomes entangled with gangsters while trying to stage his Broadway show.
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E.
Elwood Blues
Elwood Blues is a fictional harmonica-playing musician and one half of the comedic rhythm and blues duo The Blues Brothers, famously portrayed by Dan Aykroyd.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Broadway musical ⓘ |
| actStructure | two-act musical ⓘ |
| awardNomination |
Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Award for Best Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Award for Best Original Score NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | lives of Daisy and Violet Hilton ⓘ |
| bookBy | Bill Russell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadwayRunLength | 91 performances ⓘ |
| broadwaySeason | 1997–1998 Broadway season ⓘ |
| choreographer | Anthony Van Laast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closingDate |
1998-01-03
ⓘ
2015-01-04 ⓘ |
| composer | Henry Krieger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director |
Bill Condon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Longbottom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical musical
ⓘ
musical theatre ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Bill Russell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature | features conjoined twins as central characters ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Come Look at the Freaks
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
I Will Never Leave You NERFINISHED ⓘ Like Everyone Else NERFINISHED ⓘ One Plus One Equals Three NERFINISHED ⓘ Tunnel of Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Who Will Love Me As I Am? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orchestrator | Harold Wheeler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalCastMember |
Alice Ripley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Emily Padgett NERFINISHED ⓘ Emily Skinner NERFINISHED ⓘ Erin Davie NERFINISHED ⓘ Hugh Panaro NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeff McCarthy NERFINISHED ⓘ Norm Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereDate |
1997-10-16
ⓘ
2014-11-17 ⓘ |
| premiereLocation | Broadway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereTheatre |
Richard Rodgers Theatre
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. James Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Livent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| revival | 2014 Broadway revival of Side Show ⓘ |
| settingContext | sideshow entertainment ⓘ |
| settingTime | 1930s ⓘ |
| subject |
Daisy Hilton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Violet Hilton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Side Show Description of subject: Side Show is a Broadway musical by composer Henry Krieger that dramatizes the lives of conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton in the world of 1930s sideshow entertainment.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.