They’re Playing Our Song (Broadway musical)
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"They’re Playing Our Song" is a 1979 Broadway musical comedy with music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, loosely based on their real-life relationship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| They’re Playing Our Song (Broadway musical) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10449045 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: They’re Playing Our Song (Broadway musical) Context triple: [Lucie Arnaz, notableWork, They’re Playing Our Song (Broadway musical)]
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A.
It's Only a Play (Broadway)
"It's Only a Play" is a Broadway revival of Terrence McNally's backstage comedy about the chaos and egos surrounding an opening night theatrical premiere.
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B.
Side Show (Broadway musical)
Side Show is a Broadway musical that dramatizes the lives of conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton as they navigate fame, love, and exploitation in the world of 1930s sideshows and vaudeville.
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C.
If/Then (musical)
If/Then is a contemporary Broadway musical with music by Tom Kitt and book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey that follows a woman whose life diverges into parallel storylines based on a single choice.
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D.
On Broadway
"On Broadway" is a jazz-infused cover of the classic song popularized by George Benson, known for its virtuosic guitar work and smooth vocal style.
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E.
Hair (Broadway revival)
Hair (Broadway revival) is a modern Broadway staging of the landmark 1960s rock musical about love, peace, and the counterculture movement.
- 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: They’re Playing Our Song (Broadway musical) Target entity description: "They’re Playing Our Song" is a 1979 Broadway musical comedy with music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, loosely based on their real-life relationship.
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A.
It's Only a Play (Broadway)
"It's Only a Play" is a Broadway revival of Terrence McNally's backstage comedy about the chaos and egos surrounding an opening night theatrical premiere.
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B.
Side Show (Broadway musical)
Side Show is a Broadway musical that dramatizes the lives of conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton as they navigate fame, love, and exploitation in the world of 1930s sideshows and vaudeville.
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C.
If/Then (musical)
If/Then is a contemporary Broadway musical with music by Tom Kitt and book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey that follows a woman whose life diverges into parallel storylines based on a single choice.
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D.
On Broadway
"On Broadway" is a jazz-infused cover of the classic song popularized by George Benson, known for its virtuosic guitar work and smooth vocal style.
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E.
Hair (Broadway revival)
Hair (Broadway revival) is a modern Broadway staging of the landmark 1960s rock musical about love, peace, and the counterculture movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway musical
ⓘ
musical comedy ⓘ |
| basedOn | relationship between Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager ⓘ |
| bookBy | Neil Simon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadwayClosingDate | 1981-09-06 ⓘ |
| broadwayOpeningDate | 1979-02-11 ⓘ |
| broadwayRunLength | 1082 performances ⓘ |
| broadwayTheatre | Imperial Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadwayType | commercial Broadway production ⓘ |
| castAlbumLabel | Casablanca Records NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Sonia Walsk
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vernon Gersch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| choreographer | Patricia Birch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Marvin Hamlisch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Robert Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresEnsemble | Greek chorus of voices representing the couple's inner thoughts ⓘ |
| genre | musical comedy ⓘ |
| hasCastAlbum | They're Playing Our Song (original Broadway cast recording) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTour | U.S. national tour ⓘ |
| hasWestEndProduction | London West End production ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Carole Bayer Sager NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme | creative collaboration and romance ⓘ |
| musicStyle | contemporary pop-influenced show tunes ⓘ |
| notableSong |
I Still Believe in Love
NERFINISHED
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If He Really Knew Me NERFINISHED ⓘ Right ⓘ They're Playing Our Song NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfActs | 2 ⓘ |
| orchestrator | Larry Blank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalBroadwayCastMember |
Lucie Arnaz
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Klein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| premiereCity | New York City ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 1979-02-11 ⓘ |
| premiereLocation | Imperial Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Ray Stark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | romantic relationship between a composer and a lyricist ⓘ |
| subjectOf | theatre reviews in The New York Times NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| westEndOpeningYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1979 ⓘ |
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: They’re Playing Our Song (Broadway musical) Description of subject: "They’re Playing Our Song" is a 1979 Broadway musical comedy with music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, loosely based on their real-life relationship.
Referenced by (1)
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