The Passing Show of 1917
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The Passing Show of 1917 was a popular Broadway musical revue of the World War I era, known for its comedy sketches, songs, and satirical take on contemporary events.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Passing Show of 1917 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9649724 — 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: The Passing Show of 1917 Context triple: [Bert Kalmar, notableWork, The Passing Show of 1917]
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The Passing Show of 1916
The Passing Show of 1916 was a popular early 20th-century Broadway musical revue known for its satirical sketches, songs, and variety acts.
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The Passing Show of 1915
The Passing Show of 1915 was a popular early 20th-century Broadway musical revue, featuring comedy sketches, songs, and variety acts that helped establish Bert Kalmar’s reputation as a songwriter.
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The Passing Show of 1914
The Passing Show of 1914 was a popular early 20th-century Broadway musical revue, remembered for its comedic sketches, songs, and satirical take on contemporary events.
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The Passing Show of 1913
The Passing Show of 1913 was a popular early 20th-century Broadway musical revue known for its comedic sketches, songs, and satirical take on contemporary culture.
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The Passing Show of 1912
The Passing Show of 1912 was an early 20th-century Broadway musical revue, remembered as one of lyricist Bert Kalmar’s significant stage successes.
- 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: The Passing Show of 1917 Target entity description: The Passing Show of 1917 was a popular Broadway musical revue of the World War I era, known for its comedy sketches, songs, and satirical take on contemporary events.
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A.
The Passing Show of 1916
The Passing Show of 1916 was a popular early 20th-century Broadway musical revue known for its satirical sketches, songs, and variety acts.
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B.
The Passing Show of 1915
The Passing Show of 1915 was a popular early 20th-century Broadway musical revue, featuring comedy sketches, songs, and variety acts that helped establish Bert Kalmar’s reputation as a songwriter.
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C.
The Passing Show of 1914
The Passing Show of 1914 was a popular early 20th-century Broadway musical revue, remembered for its comedic sketches, songs, and satirical take on contemporary events.
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D.
The Passing Show of 1913
The Passing Show of 1913 was a popular early 20th-century Broadway musical revue known for its comedic sketches, songs, and satirical take on contemporary culture.
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E.
The Passing Show of 1912
The Passing Show of 1912 was an early 20th-century Broadway musical revue, remembered as one of lyricist Bert Kalmar’s significant stage successes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway musical revue
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theatrical production ⓘ |
| artForm | performing arts ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creativeWorkStatus | stage work ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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musical theatre ⓘ revue ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
comic sketches linked by musical numbers
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light entertainment ⓘ satirical take on contemporary events ⓘ topical references ⓘ |
| hasPart |
comedy sketches
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dance numbers ⓘ ensemble musical numbers ⓘ satirical sketches ⓘ songs ⓘ topical sketches ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 1910s American theatre ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
contemporary news events
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wartime public sentiment ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | Broadway audiences ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locationOfFirstPerformance | Broadway, New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject | World War I era ⓘ |
| mediumOfPerformance | live theatre ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
contemporary events
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current politics ⓘ popular culture ⓘ wartime society ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | The Passing Show series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performanceMode | live stage performance ⓘ |
| productionType | Broadway production ⓘ |
| reception |
commercially successful
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popular ⓘ |
| style |
musical comedy
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topical humor ⓘ variety entertainment ⓘ |
| subjectOf | theatre histories of World War I era Broadway ⓘ |
| temporalContext | World War I era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesHumorStyle |
burlesque elements
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parody ⓘ topical satire ⓘ |
| workType | commercial theatre revue ⓘ |
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: The Passing Show of 1917 Description of subject: The Passing Show of 1917 was a popular Broadway musical revue of the World War I era, known for its comedy sketches, songs, and satirical take on contemporary events.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.