Holiday (1930 play)
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Holiday (1930 play) is a stage comedy by Philip Barry about a free-spirited man torn between wealth and personal happiness, later adapted into the 1938 film of the same name.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Holiday (1930 play) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10676712 — 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: Holiday (1930 play) Context triple: [Holiday (1938 film), adaptationOf, Holiday (1930 play)]
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Last Holiday (1950 film)
Last Holiday (1950 film) is a British comedy-drama in which Alec Guinness plays a man mistakenly diagnosed as terminally ill who splurges on a final luxurious vacation, leading to ironic twists of fate.
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B.
Grand Hotel (play)
Grand Hotel (play) is a stage adaptation of Vicki Baum’s novel about the intersecting lives of guests and staff in a luxurious Berlin hotel during the Weimar era.
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C.
The Passing Show of 1930
The Passing Show of 1930 was a Broadway musical revue featuring songs and comedy sketches, co-written by lyricist Bert Kalmar.
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D.
The Heir to the Hoorah (play)
The Heir to the Hoorah is an early 20th-century stage play by American dramatist William C. deMille, known for its blend of drama and social commentary.
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E.
The Shoemaker's Holiday
The Shoemaker's Holiday is a late-16th-century English comedy play by Thomas Dekker that portrays the lives and aspirations of London shoemakers with a mix of humor, social commentary, and festive spirit.
- 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: Holiday (1930 play) Target entity description: Holiday (1930 play) is a stage comedy by Philip Barry about a free-spirited man torn between wealth and personal happiness, later adapted into the 1938 film of the same name.
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A.
Last Holiday (1950 film)
Last Holiday (1950 film) is a British comedy-drama in which Alec Guinness plays a man mistakenly diagnosed as terminally ill who splurges on a final luxurious vacation, leading to ironic twists of fate.
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B.
Grand Hotel (play)
Grand Hotel (play) is a stage adaptation of Vicki Baum’s novel about the intersecting lives of guests and staff in a luxurious Berlin hotel during the Weimar era.
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C.
The Passing Show of 1930
The Passing Show of 1930 was a Broadway musical revue featuring songs and comedy sketches, co-written by lyricist Bert Kalmar.
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D.
The Heir to the Hoorah (play)
The Heir to the Hoorah is an early 20th-century stage play by American dramatist William C. deMille, known for its blend of drama and social commentary.
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E.
The Shoemaker's Holiday
The Shoemaker's Holiday is a late-16th-century English comedy play by Thomas Dekker that portrays the lives and aspirations of London shoemakers with a mix of humor, social commentary, and festive spirit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | stage play ⓘ |
| adaptedInto |
Holiday (1930 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Holiday (1938 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Philip Barry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfAdaptationSourceFor | Philip Barry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnByFilm |
Holiday (1930 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Holiday (1938 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| form | stage comedy ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Holiday (1930 film)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Holiday (1938 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitleInEnglish | Holiday NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | free-spirited man ⓘ |
| medium | theatre ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Philip Barry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| setting | affluent American society ⓘ |
| subject | conflict between wealth and personal happiness ⓘ |
| theme |
critique of materialism
ⓘ
individualism versus social expectations ⓘ pursuit of happiness ⓘ |
| title | Holiday NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Philip Barry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1930 ⓘ |
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: Holiday (1930 play) Description of subject: Holiday (1930 play) is a stage comedy by Philip Barry about a free-spirited man torn between wealth and personal happiness, later adapted into the 1938 film of the same name.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Holiday (1938 film)