The Prom
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The Prom is a Broadway musical comedy that follows a group of down-on-their-luck theater actors who rally to support a lesbian teenager banned from bringing her girlfriend to the high school prom.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Prom canonical | 12 |
| F the Prom | 1 |
| The Prom (2018 Broadway musical) | 1 |
| The Prom (2020 film) | 1 |
| The Prom (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6527457 — 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: The Prom Context triple: [Andrew Rannells, notableWork, The Prom]
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A.
Booksmart
Booksmart is a 2019 coming-of-age comedy film that follows two overachieving high school friends who decide to cram four years of missed fun into one wild night before graduation.
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B.
Kinky Boots
Kinky Boots is a Tony Award–winning Broadway musical, with music by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein, about a struggling shoe factory that reinvents itself by producing flamboyant boots for drag performers.
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C.
Promising Young Woman
Promising Young Woman is a 2020 darkly comedic thriller film written and directed by Emerald Fennell that follows a woman seeking revenge for past sexual trauma, acclaimed for its bold storytelling and social commentary.
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D.
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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E.
The Holdovers
The Holdovers is a 2023 comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne about a curmudgeonly teacher stuck supervising students over Christmas break at a New England boarding school.
- 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: The Prom Target entity description: The Prom is a Broadway musical comedy that follows a group of down-on-their-luck theater actors who rally to support a lesbian teenager banned from bringing her girlfriend to the high school prom.
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A.
Booksmart
Booksmart is a 2019 coming-of-age comedy film that follows two overachieving high school friends who decide to cram four years of missed fun into one wild night before graduation.
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B.
Kinky Boots
Kinky Boots is a Tony Award–winning Broadway musical, with music by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein, about a struggling shoe factory that reinvents itself by producing flamboyant boots for drag performers.
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C.
Promising Young Woman
Promising Young Woman is a 2020 darkly comedic thriller film written and directed by Emerald Fennell that follows a woman seeking revenge for past sexual trauma, acclaimed for its bold storytelling and social commentary.
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D.
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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E.
The Holdovers
The Holdovers is a 2023 comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne about a curmudgeonly teacher stuck supervising students over Christmas break at a New England boarding school.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway musical
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stage musical ⓘ |
| basedOn | an original concept by Jack Viertel ⓘ |
| bookBy |
Bob Martin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chad Beguelin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadwayClosingDate | 2019-08-11 ⓘ |
| broadwayOpeningDate | 2018-11-15 ⓘ |
| broadwayPreviewsStartDate | 2018-10-23 ⓘ |
| broadwayTheatre | Longacre Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| choreographer | Casey Nicholaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Matthew Sklar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Casey Nicholaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDirector | Ryan Murphy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmAdaptationDistributor | Netflix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | musical comedy ⓘ |
| hasFilmAdaptation | The Prom (2020 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lyricist | Chad Beguelin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicSupervisor | Mary-Mitchell Campbell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tony Award for Best Musical NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Award for Best Original Score NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (Brooks Ashmanskas) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical (Beth Leavel) NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical (Caitlin Kinnunen) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacter |
Alyssa Greene
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Angie Dickinson (character) NERFINISHED ⓘ Barry Glickman NERFINISHED ⓘ Dee Dee Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ Emma Nolan NERFINISHED ⓘ Trent Oliver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Changing Lives
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dance with You NERFINISHED ⓘ It’s Time to Dance NERFINISHED ⓘ Just Breathe NERFINISHED ⓘ Tonight Belongs to You NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orchestrator | Larry Hochman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalBroadwayCastMember |
Angie Schworer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Beth Leavel NERFINISHED ⓘ Brooks Ashmanskas NERFINISHED ⓘ Caitlin Kinnunen NERFINISHED ⓘ Christopher Sieber NERFINISHED ⓘ Courtenay Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ Isabelle McCalla NERFINISHED ⓘ Josh Lamon NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael James Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Potts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereCity | Atlanta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 2016-08-18 ⓘ |
| premiereVenue | Alliance Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Bill Damaschke
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dori Berinstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Lane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
LGBTQ+ issues
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lesbian teenager banned from bringing her girlfriend to prom ⓘ |
| title | The Prom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: The Prom Description of subject: The Prom is a Broadway musical comedy that follows a group of down-on-their-luck theater actors who rally to support a lesbian teenager banned from bringing her girlfriend to the high school prom.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Prom (2018 Broadway musical)
this entity surface form:
The Prom (2020 film)
this entity surface form:
F the Prom
this entity surface form:
The Prom (film)