Sex and the Single Girl
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Sex and the Single Girl is a 1964 romantic comedy film starring Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood, loosely inspired by Helen Gurley Brown’s bestselling book of the same name.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sex and the Single Girl canonical | 2 |
| Sex and the Single Girl (1962) | 1 |
| Sex and the Single Girl (1964 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8376086 — 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: Sex and the Single Girl Context triple: [Tony Curtis, notableWork, Sex and the Single Girl]
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A.
The Gentle Sex
The Gentle Sex is a 1943 British wartime drama film that follows the experiences of several women who join the Auxiliary Territorial Service during World War II.
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B.
The Opposite Sex
The Opposite Sex is a 1956 MGM musical comedy film, a remake of the 1939 classic The Women, featuring an ensemble cast in a satirical story about love, marriage, and infidelity.
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C.
The Girl Friend
The Girl Friend is a 1926 Broadway musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart that helped establish their early success on the New York stage.
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D.
Every Girl Should Be Married
Every Girl Should Be Married is a 1948 romantic comedy film starring Betsy Drake and Cary Grant, centered on a determined young woman’s elaborate schemes to marry the man she loves.
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E.
In Love with a Girl
"In Love with a Girl" is a pop-rock single by American singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw, known for its soulful vocals and guitar-driven sound.
- 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: Sex and the Single Girl Target entity description: Sex and the Single Girl is a 1964 romantic comedy film starring Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood, loosely inspired by Helen Gurley Brown’s bestselling book of the same name.
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A.
The Gentle Sex
The Gentle Sex is a 1943 British wartime drama film that follows the experiences of several women who join the Auxiliary Territorial Service during World War II.
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B.
The Opposite Sex
The Opposite Sex is a 1956 MGM musical comedy film, a remake of the 1939 classic The Women, featuring an ensemble cast in a satirical story about love, marriage, and infidelity.
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C.
The Girl Friend
The Girl Friend is a 1926 Broadway musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart that helped establish their early success on the New York stage.
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D.
Every Girl Should Be Married
Every Girl Should Be Married is a 1948 romantic comedy film starring Betsy Drake and Cary Grant, centered on a determined young woman’s elaborate schemes to marry the man she loves.
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E.
In Love with a Girl
"In Love with a Girl" is a pop-rock single by American singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw, known for its soulful vocals and guitar-driven sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Sex and the Single Girl (book) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Helen Gurley Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Charles Lang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Richard Quine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy |
Warner Bros. Pictures
ⓘ
surface form:
Warner Bros.
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| distributorRegion |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| editedBy | Charles Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmColor | color ⓘ |
| genre | romantic comedy ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Bob Weston
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dr. Helen Gurley Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
magazine journalism
ⓘ
romantic relationships ⓘ sexual mores in the 1960s ⓘ |
| isLooselyBasedOn | Sex and the Single Girl (non-fiction book) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Neal Hefti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nonFictionSourceGenre | self-help ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Natalie Wood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tony Curtis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Joseph J. Mansfield
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Martin Melcher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1964 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 110 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
David R. Schwartz
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joseph Heller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Fran Jeffries
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry Fonda NERFINISHED ⓘ Lauren Bacall NERFINISHED ⓘ Leslie Parrish NERFINISHED ⓘ Mel Ferrer NERFINISHED ⓘ Natalie Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Curtis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Sex and the Single Girl 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: Sex and the Single Girl Description of subject: Sex and the Single Girl is a 1964 romantic comedy film starring Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood, loosely inspired by Helen Gurley Brown’s bestselling book of the same name.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sex and the Single Girl (1964 film)
this entity surface form:
Sex and the Single Girl (1962)