The Passing Show of 1918
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The Passing Show of 1918 was a popular Broadway musical revue from the World War I era, known for its satirical sketches, songs, and variety acts.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Passing Show of 1918 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9649725 — 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 1918 Context triple: [Bert Kalmar, notableWork, The Passing Show of 1918]
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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 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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C.
The Passing Show of 1917
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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 1918 Target entity description: The Passing Show of 1918 was a popular Broadway musical revue from the World War I era, known for its satirical sketches, songs, and variety acts.
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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 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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C.
The Passing Show of 1917
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway musical revue
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theatrical production ⓘ |
| artForm | live theatre ⓘ |
| basedOn | contemporary news and popular culture ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| firstPerformanceYear | 1918 ⓘ |
| follows |
The Passing Show of 1917
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
earlier Passing Show revues ⓘ |
| genre |
musical theatre
ⓘ
revue ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasAudience | Broadway theatre-goers ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
large ensemble cast
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parody of current events ⓘ spectacular staging ⓘ topical humor ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | American popular culture of the 1910s ⓘ |
| hasPart |
satirical sketches
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songs ⓘ variety acts ⓘ |
| hasReception | popular with contemporary audiences ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
comic revue
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light entertainment ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
patriotism
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romance and comedy ⓘ social satire ⓘ |
| hasType | commercial theatre production ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
earlier musical revues
ⓘ
vaudeville ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | adult audiences ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Broadway history ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locationOfPremiere |
Broadway
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject | World War I era society ⓘ |
| medium | stage performance ⓘ |
| notableFor |
combination of sketches and musical numbers
ⓘ
satirical treatment of wartime themes ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | The Passing Show NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Shubert Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Shubert Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1918 ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1910s ⓘ |
| temporalContext | World War I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workPeriod | World War I era ⓘ |
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: The Passing Show of 1918 Description of subject: The Passing Show of 1918 was a popular Broadway musical revue from the World War I era, known for its satirical sketches, songs, and variety acts.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.