Harvey (play)
E611049
Harvey (play) is a 1944 Pulitzer Prize–winning stage comedy by Mary Chase about a genial man whose best friend is an invisible six-foot-tall rabbit.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harvey (Broadway revival) | 1 |
| Harvey (play) canonical | 1 |
| Harvey (stage production) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6673807 — 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: Harvey (play) Context triple: [Harvey, basedOn, Harvey (play)]
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A.
Dodsworth (play)
Dodsworth is a 1934 stage adaptation by Sidney Howard of Sinclair Lewis's novel, focusing on the disintegration of a middle-aged American couple's marriage during their travels in Europe.
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B.
The Heir to the Hoorah (play)
The Heir to the Hoorah is an early 20th-century stage play by American dramatist William C. deMille, known for its blend of drama and social commentary.
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C.
Albert Herring
Albert Herring is a comic opera by Benjamin Britten that satirically portrays the moral rigidity and social pretensions of a small English village.
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D.
The Iceman Cometh
The Iceman Cometh is a 1939 play by American dramatist Eugene O’Neill that portrays a group of down-and-out barflies confronting their shattered illusions when visited by a charismatic salesman.
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E.
The Ringer (play)
The Ringer (play) is a stage adaptation of Edgar Wallace’s crime story about a mysterious master of disguise who outwits both criminals and the police.
- 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: Harvey (play) Target entity description: Harvey (play) is a 1944 Pulitzer Prize–winning stage comedy by Mary Chase about a genial man whose best friend is an invisible six-foot-tall rabbit.
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A.
Dodsworth (play)
Dodsworth is a 1934 stage adaptation by Sidney Howard of Sinclair Lewis's novel, focusing on the disintegration of a middle-aged American couple's marriage during their travels in Europe.
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B.
The Heir to the Hoorah (play)
The Heir to the Hoorah is an early 20th-century stage play by American dramatist William C. deMille, known for its blend of drama and social commentary.
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C.
Albert Herring
Albert Herring is a comic opera by Benjamin Britten that satirically portrays the moral rigidity and social pretensions of a small English village.
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D.
The Iceman Cometh
The Iceman Cometh is a 1939 play by American dramatist Eugene O’Neill that portrays a group of down-and-out barflies confronting their shattered illusions when visited by a charismatic salesman.
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E.
The Ringer (play)
The Ringer (play) is a stage adaptation of Edgar Wallace’s crime story about a mysterious master of disguise who outwits both criminals and the police.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fantasy play
ⓘ
stage play ⓘ |
| author | Mary Chase NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Pulitzer Prize for Drama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTypeOfHarvey | invisible rabbit ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstPerformanceYear | 1944 ⓘ |
| firstPublicationCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
fantasy ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Harvey (1950 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harvey (1972 television film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Harvey (other television adaptations) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBroadwayRun | yes ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Dr. Lyman Sanderson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dr. William Chumley NERFINISHED ⓘ Elwood P. Dowd NERFINISHED ⓘ Harvey NERFINISHED ⓘ Judge Omar Gaffney NERFINISHED ⓘ Myrtle Mae Simmons NERFINISHED ⓘ Nurse Ruth Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ Veta Louise Simmons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubject | a man whose best friend is an invisible six-foot-tall rabbit ⓘ |
| hasWestEndProduction | yes ⓘ |
| influenced | later works about imaginary companions ⓘ |
| isPulitzerPrizeWinningWork | true ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Elwood P. Dowd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableActorInAdaptation | James Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAwardYear | 1945 ⓘ |
| notableBroadwayProductionYear | 1944 ⓘ |
| notableTheme |
kindness and compassion
ⓘ
reality versus illusion ⓘ tolerance of eccentricity ⓘ |
| originalBroadwayProducer | Brock Pemberton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalBroadwayTheatre | 42nd Street Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| PulitzerPrize | Pulitzer Prize for Drama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| PulitzerPrizeYear | 1945 ⓘ |
| setting | an American town ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
imaginary friend
ⓘ
mental health ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| titleCharacter | Harvey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Mary Chase 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: Harvey (play) Description of subject: Harvey (play) is a 1944 Pulitzer Prize–winning stage comedy by Mary Chase about a genial man whose best friend is an invisible six-foot-tall rabbit.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Harvey (stage production)
this entity surface form:
Harvey (Broadway revival)