https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footlight_Parade
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Footlight Parade is a 1933 American musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon and famed for its elaborate Busby Berkeley-choreographed musical numbers and James Cagney’s energetic performance.
All labels observed (1)
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footlight_Parade canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8999584 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footlight_Parade Context triple: [Footlight Parade, hasWikipediaPage, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footlight_Parade]
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Cavalcade of Lights
Cavalcade of Lights is an annual winter festival in Toronto featuring the official lighting of the city’s Christmas tree, live music, and fireworks at Nathan Phillips Square.
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Plaza Lighting Ceremony
The Plaza Lighting Ceremony is an annual holiday tradition in Kansas City where thousands gather at the Country Club Plaza to watch its iconic Spanish-style shopping district illuminated with festive lights.
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C.
Ziegfeld Follies
Ziegfeld Follies was a series of lavish Broadway theatrical revues produced in the early 20th century, renowned for their elaborate staging, glamorous showgirls, and performances by major stars of the era.
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Judy Garland Festival
The Judy Garland Festival is an annual celebration in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, honoring the life and legacy of the iconic actress and singer Judy Garland with films, exhibits, and themed events.
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Macy’s Day Parade
The Macy’s Day Parade, more commonly known as the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, is a famous annual New York City procession featuring giant character balloons, elaborate floats, marching bands, and performances to celebrate Thanksgiving.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footlight_Parade Target entity description: Footlight Parade is a 1933 American musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon and famed for its elaborate Busby Berkeley-choreographed musical numbers and James Cagney’s energetic performance.
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A.
Cavalcade of Lights
Cavalcade of Lights is an annual winter festival in Toronto featuring the official lighting of the city’s Christmas tree, live music, and fireworks at Nathan Phillips Square.
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B.
Plaza Lighting Ceremony
The Plaza Lighting Ceremony is an annual holiday tradition in Kansas City where thousands gather at the Country Club Plaza to watch its iconic Spanish-style shopping district illuminated with festive lights.
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C.
Ziegfeld Follies
Ziegfeld Follies was a series of lavish Broadway theatrical revues produced in the early 20th century, renowned for their elaborate staging, glamorous showgirls, and performances by major stars of the era.
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D.
Judy Garland Festival
The Judy Garland Festival is an annual celebration in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, honoring the life and legacy of the iconic actress and singer Judy Garland with films, exhibits, and themed events.
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E.
Macy’s Day Parade
The Macy’s Day Parade, more commonly known as the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, is a famous annual New York City procession featuring giant character balloons, elaborate floats, marching bands, and performances to celebrate Thanksgiving.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | story by James Seymour ⓘ |
| choreographer | Busby Berkeley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy |
George Barnes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sidney Hickox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Lloyd Bacon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Warner Bros. Pictures
ⓘ
surface form:
Warner Bros.
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| editedBy | George Amy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresMusicalNumber |
By a Waterfall
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Honeymoon Hotel NERFINISHED ⓘ Shanghai Lil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
musical ⓘ |
| hasWikipediaPage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footlight_Parade ⓘ |
| lyricsBy | Al Dubin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Harry Warren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
James Cagney’s energetic performance
ⓘ
elaborate Busby Berkeley musical numbers ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Warner Bros. backstage musical cycle ⓘ |
| producer |
Hal B. Wallis
ⓘ
Harry Joe Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1933-10-21 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1933 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 104 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
James Seymour
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lynn Starling NERFINISHED ⓘ Manuel Seff NERFINISHED ⓘ Sidney Sutherland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | early sound era of cinema ⓘ |
| setting | backstage musical production world ⓘ |
| starring |
Claire Dodd
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dick Powell NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank McHugh NERFINISHED ⓘ Guy Kibbee NERFINISHED ⓘ Hugh Herbert NERFINISHED ⓘ James Cagney NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Blondell NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruby Keeler NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruth Donnelly NERFINISHED ⓘ Zasu Pitts 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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footlight_Parade Description of subject: Footlight Parade is a 1933 American musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon and famed for its elaborate Busby Berkeley-choreographed musical numbers and James Cagney’s energetic performance.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.