Annie Get Your Gun (orchestration)

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musical theatre orchestration orchestration

Annie Get Your Gun (orchestration) is Robert Russell Bennett’s celebrated orchestral scoring of Irving Berlin’s classic 1946 Broadway musical, renowned for its vibrant, idiomatic treatment of the show’s songs.

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Label	Occurrences
Annie Get Your Gun (orchestration) canonical	1
Annie Get Your Gun (original cast recording)	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T681613 — 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: Annie Get Your Gun (orchestration)
Context triple: [Robert Russell Bennett, notableWork, Annie Get Your Gun (orchestration)]

A. Make Mine Music
Make Mine Music is a 1946 Walt Disney animated musical anthology film composed of ten segments set to popular and classical music.
B. The Band Wagon
The Band Wagon is a classic 1953 MGM musical film starring Fred Astaire, celebrated for its sophisticated song-and-dance numbers and backstage showbiz storyline.
C. The Most Happy Fella
The Most Happy Fella is a 1956 Broadway musical by Frank Loesser, known for its operatic score and romantic story set in California’s Napa Valley.
D. High Society
High Society is a 1956 musical romantic comedy film, starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra, that reimagines the play and film The Philadelphia Story with a jazz-infused score by Cole Porter.
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: Annie Get Your Gun (orchestration)
Target entity description: Annie Get Your Gun (orchestration) is Robert Russell Bennett’s celebrated orchestral scoring of Irving Berlin’s classic 1946 Broadway musical, renowned for its vibrant, idiomatic treatment of the show’s songs.

A. Make Mine Music
Make Mine Music is a 1946 Walt Disney animated musical anthology film composed of ten segments set to popular and classical music.
B. The Band Wagon
The Band Wagon is a classic 1953 MGM musical film starring Fred Astaire, celebrated for its sophisticated song-and-dance numbers and backstage showbiz storyline.
C. The Most Happy Fella
The Most Happy Fella is a 1956 Broadway musical by Frank Loesser, known for its operatic score and romantic story set in California’s Napa Valley.
D. High Society
High Society is a 1956 musical romantic comedy film, starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra, that reimagines the play and film The Philadelphia Story with a jazz-infused score by Cole Porter.
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 (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	musical theatre orchestration ⓘ orchestration ⓘ
associatedPerson	Ethel Merman ⓘ
associatedWithPerson	Irving Berlin ⓘ Oscar Hammerstein II ⓘ Richard Rodgers ⓘ
associatedWithProduction	original 1946 Broadway production of Annie Get Your Gun ⓘ
basedOn	Annie Get Your Gun (1946 Broadway musical) ⓘ
commissionedFor	Rodgers and Hammerstein ⓘ surface form: Rodgers and Hammerstein (producers of the original Broadway production)
composerOfSourceMaterial	Irving Berlin ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
criticalReputation	celebrated example of classic Broadway orchestration ⓘ
firstPerformanceYear	1946 ⓘ
genre	Broadway musical orchestration ⓘ show music orchestration ⓘ
hasCreator	Robert Russell Bennett ⓘ
hasSubject	Wild West ⓘ surface form: American Old West (as depicted in the musical)
includesMusicBy	Irving Berlin ⓘ
includesSong	Anything You Can Do ⓘ Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly ⓘ I Got the Sun in the Mornin’ ⓘ There's No Business Like Show Business ⓘ surface form: There’s No Business Like Show Business They Say It’s Wonderful ⓘ
influencedBy	American popular song tradition ⓘ big band jazz idioms ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
medium	orchestra ⓘ
notableFor	idiomatic treatment of songs ⓘ vibrant orchestral scoring ⓘ
orchestrator	Robert Russell Bennett ⓘ
partOf	Annie Get Your Gun (1946 Broadway musical) ⓘ surface form: Annie Get Your Gun (musical)
period	20th-century American musical theatre ⓘ
publicationContext	Broadway theater ⓘ surface form: Broadway theatre
relatedWork	Annie Get Your Gun (orchestration) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Annie Get Your Gun (original cast recording)
style	colorful wind and brass writing ⓘ lush symphonic Broadway style ⓘ rhythmically driven dance scoring ⓘ
usedIn	revivals and touring productions of Annie Get Your Gun ⓘ stage performances of Annie Get Your Gun ⓘ
usesInstrumentation	brass ⓘ harp ⓘ percussion ⓘ piano ⓘ strings ⓘ woodwinds ⓘ

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Robert Russell Bennett → notableWork → Annie Get Your Gun (orchestration) ⓘ

Annie Get Your Gun (orchestration) → relatedWork → Annie Get Your Gun (orchestration) self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Annie Get Your Gun (original cast recording)

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