Mother Wore Tights
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Mother Wore Tights is a 1947 American musical film starring Betty Grable that follows the lives and careers of a vaudeville song-and-dance couple.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mother Wore Tights canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6875787 — 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: Mother Wore Tights Context triple: [20th Academy Awards, bestScoringOfAMusicalPictureWinner, Mother Wore Tights]
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A.
The Panties
The Panties is a track by Mos Def featured on his genre-blending album "The New Danger."
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B.
Between My Legs
"Between My Legs" is a song by singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright from his album "Release the Stars."
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C.
Sex Is in the Heel
"Sex Is in the Heel" is a showstopping musical number from the Broadway musical *Kinky Boots*, known for its upbeat celebration of self-expression and glamorous footwear.
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D.
This Woman
"This Woman" is a song featured on Kenny Rogers' 1983 country-pop album "Eyes That See in the Dark."
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E.
Girl Can’t Be Herself
"Girl Can’t Be Herself" is a song by Alicia Keys that addresses themes of self-acceptance and rejecting societal beauty standards.
- 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: Mother Wore Tights Target entity description: Mother Wore Tights is a 1947 American musical film starring Betty Grable that follows the lives and careers of a vaudeville song-and-dance couple.
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A.
The Panties
The Panties is a track by Mos Def featured on his genre-blending album "The New Danger."
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B.
Between My Legs
"Between My Legs" is a song by singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright from his album "Release the Stars."
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C.
Sex Is in the Heel
"Sex Is in the Heel" is a showstopping musical number from the Broadway musical *Kinky Boots*, known for its upbeat celebration of self-expression and glamorous footwear.
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D.
This Woman
"This Woman" is a song featured on Kenny Rogers' 1983 country-pop album "Eyes That See in the Dark."
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E.
Girl Can’t Be Herself
"Girl Can’t Be Herself" is a song by Alicia Keys that addresses themes of self-acceptance and rejecting societal beauty standards.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| award | Academy Award for Best Original Song nomination NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Mother Wore Tights (book)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
book by Miriam Young ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Harry Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Technicolor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Walter Lang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
20th Century Fox
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
20th Century Fox Film Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | J. Watson Webb Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
musical film ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Betty Grable
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Connie Marshall NERFINISHED ⓘ Dan Dailey NERFINISHED ⓘ Lee Patrick NERFINISHED ⓘ Mona Freeman NERFINISHED ⓘ Sara Allgood NERFINISHED ⓘ Veda Ann Borg NERFINISHED ⓘ William Frawley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
drama film
ⓘ
musical film ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicBy | Alfred Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | told from the viewpoint of the eldest daughter ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Original Song
ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Follows the lives and careers of a vaudeville song-and-dance couple and their family ⓘ |
| producer | Fred Kohlmar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1947-09-05 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1947 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 107 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Lamar Trotti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| songFeatured |
I Feel Like Dancing
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kokomo, Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ You Do NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Betty Grable
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Connie Marshall NERFINISHED ⓘ Dan Dailey NERFINISHED ⓘ Mona Freeman NERFINISHED ⓘ William Frawley 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: Mother Wore Tights Description of subject: Mother Wore Tights is a 1947 American musical film starring Betty Grable that follows the lives and careers of a vaudeville song-and-dance couple.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.