Nothing But the Truth (1916 play)

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Nothing But the Truth (1916 play) is a Broadway comedy by James Montgomery about a man who wagers that he can tell the absolute truth for 24 hours, leading to a series of humorous complications.

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Label Occurrences
Nothing But the Truth (1916 play) canonical 1

Statements (23)

Predicate Object
instanceOf stage play
author James Montgomery NERFINISHED
basedOn Nothing But the Truth (1914 novel) NERFINISHED
basedOnWorkBy Frederick S. Isham NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator James Montgomery NERFINISHED
firstPerformedOn Broadway NERFINISHED
genre comedy
hasAdaptation Nothing But the Truth (1920 film) NERFINISHED
Nothing But the Truth (1929 film) NERFINISHED
Nothing But the Truth (1941 film) NERFINISHED
language English
mainTheme honesty
social satire
truthfulness
medium theatre
narrativeDevice wager about telling the truth for 24 hours
originalNetwork Broadway NERFINISHED
plotSummary A man wagers that he can tell the absolute truth for 24 hours, causing humorous complications.
premiereYear 1916
publicationYear 1916
setting United States of America
surface form: United States
title Nothing But the Truth NERFINISHED

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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.
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Subject: Nothing But the Truth (1916 play)
Description of subject: Nothing But the Truth (1916 play) is a Broadway comedy by James Montgomery about a man who wagers that he can tell the absolute truth for 24 hours, leading to a series of humorous complications.

Referenced by (1)

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Nothing But the Truth (1941 film) basedOn Nothing But the Truth (1916 play)