Good News (1927 stage musical)
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Good News (1927 stage musical) is a popular Broadway college-themed musical comedy with music by Ray Henderson and lyrics by B.G. DeSylva and Lew Brown, known for songs like "The Best Things in Life Are Free" and "Varsity Drag."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Good News (1927 stage musical) canonical | 1 |
| Good News (1947 film screenplay) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9535474 — 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: Good News (1927 stage musical) Context triple: [Good News (1947 film), basedOn, Good News (1927 stage musical)]
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A.
Broadway Melody of 1936
Broadway Melody of 1936 is a 1935 MGM musical film featuring elaborate song-and-dance numbers, backstage showbiz drama, and early performances by stars like Eleanor Powell and Jack Benny.
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B.
Broadway Melody of 1938
Broadway Melody of 1938 is a 1937 MGM musical film starring Eleanor Powell and Robert Taylor, known for its lavish song-and-dance numbers and place in the popular "Broadway Melody" film series.
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C.
Footlight Parade
Footlight Parade is a 1933 American musical film starring James Cagney, celebrated for its elaborate Busby Berkeley-choreographed production numbers and backstage showbiz storyline.
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D.
Broadway Melody
Broadway Melody is a landmark early sound musical film from 1929 that became one of Hollywood’s first major talking-picture hits and won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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E.
Broadway Melody of 1940
Broadway Melody of 1940 is a classic Hollywood musical film best known for its sophisticated song-and-dance numbers and the celebrated pairing of Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell.
- 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: Good News (1927 stage musical) Target entity description: Good News (1927 stage musical) is a popular Broadway college-themed musical comedy with music by Ray Henderson and lyrics by B.G. DeSylva and Lew Brown, known for songs like "The Best Things in Life Are Free" and "Varsity Drag."
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A.
Broadway Melody of 1936
Broadway Melody of 1936 is a 1935 MGM musical film featuring elaborate song-and-dance numbers, backstage showbiz drama, and early performances by stars like Eleanor Powell and Jack Benny.
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B.
Broadway Melody of 1938
Broadway Melody of 1938 is a 1937 MGM musical film starring Eleanor Powell and Robert Taylor, known for its lavish song-and-dance numbers and place in the popular "Broadway Melody" film series.
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C.
Footlight Parade
Footlight Parade is a 1933 American musical film starring James Cagney, celebrated for its elaborate Busby Berkeley-choreographed production numbers and backstage showbiz storyline.
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D.
Broadway Melody
Broadway Melody is a landmark early sound musical film from 1929 that became one of Hollywood’s first major talking-picture hits and won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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E.
Broadway Melody of 1940
Broadway Melody of 1940 is a classic Hollywood musical film best known for its sophisticated song-and-dance numbers and the celebrated pairing of Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway musical
ⓘ
stage musical ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasChoreographyFeature | Varsity Drag dance ⓘ |
| hasComposer | Ray Henderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEra | 1920s American musical theatre ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
college musical
ⓘ
musical comedy ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasLyricist |
B. G. DeSylva
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lew Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableSong |
Good News
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Just Imagine NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucky in Love NERFINISHED ⓘ The Best Things in Life Are Free NERFINISHED ⓘ Varsity Drag NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOriginalMedium | stage ⓘ |
| hasOriginalProductionType | Broadway production ⓘ |
| hasPremiereYear | 1927 ⓘ |
| hasProducer |
B. G. DeSylva
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lew Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Henderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStyle | jazz age musical ⓘ |
| hasSubjectMatter |
college football
ⓘ
student romance ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
college life
ⓘ
romantic comedy ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Good News NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSetIn | college campus ⓘ |
| openedOn | Broadway 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: Good News (1927 stage musical) Description of subject: Good News (1927 stage musical) is a popular Broadway college-themed musical comedy with music by Ray Henderson and lyrics by B.G. DeSylva and Lew Brown, known for songs like "The Best Things in Life Are Free" and "Varsity Drag."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Betty Comden
this entity surface form:
Good News (1947 film screenplay)