It Should Happen to You
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It Should Happen to You is a 1954 romantic comedy film starring Judy Holliday as an ambitious young woman who gains sudden fame by renting a billboard in New York City.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| It Should Happen to You canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10891136 — 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: It Should Happen to You Context triple: [Judy Holliday, notableWork, It Should Happen to You]
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A.
It Could Happen to You
"It Could Happen to You" is a popular jazz and pop standard from the Great American Songbook, composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Johnny Burke and widely recorded by numerous artists.
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B.
It Could Happen to You
It Could Happen to You is a 1994 romantic comedy-drama film best known for its story about a New York cop who shares his lottery winnings with a waitress instead of leaving her a tip.
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C.
When It Happens to You
"When It Happens to You" is a linked-story collection by actress and author Molly Ringwald that explores the complexities of modern relationships and family life.
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D.
Things Happen
"Things Happen" is a reflective indie rock song by Dawes known for its philosophical lyrics about accepting life's unpredictability.
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E.
Let It Happen
"Let It Happen" is a track by Greek composer Vangelis featured on his 1979 electronic music album "Earth."
- 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: It Should Happen to You Target entity description: It Should Happen to You is a 1954 romantic comedy film starring Judy Holliday as an ambitious young woman who gains sudden fame by renting a billboard in New York City.
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A.
It Could Happen to You
"It Could Happen to You" is a popular jazz and pop standard from the Great American Songbook, composed by Jimmy Van Heusen with lyrics by Johnny Burke and widely recorded by numerous artists.
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B.
It Could Happen to You
It Could Happen to You is a 1994 romantic comedy-drama film best known for its story about a New York cop who shares his lottery winnings with a waitress instead of leaving her a tip.
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C.
When It Happens to You
"When It Happens to You" is a linked-story collection by actress and author Molly Ringwald that explores the complexities of modern relationships and family life.
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D.
Things Happen
"Things Happen" is a reflective indie rock song by Dawes known for its philosophical lyrics about accepting life's unpredictability.
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E.
Let It Happen
"Let It Happen" is a track by Greek composer Vangelis featured on his 1979 electronic music album "Earth."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematography | Charles Lang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | George Cukor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedIn | theatrical release ⓘ |
| distributor | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Charles Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 1950s American cinema ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterOccupation | aspiring celebrity ⓘ |
| featuresMedium | outdoor advertising billboard ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
New York City
ⓘ
studio sets in the United States ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
romantic comedy ⓘ |
| hasBillboardMotif | true ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistGender | female ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
advertising
ⓘ
celebrity culture ⓘ fame ⓘ |
| hasTitleType | feature film ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActor |
Jack Lemmon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Judy Holliday NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Gladys Glover NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Friedrich Hollaender NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | sudden fame of an ordinary woman ⓘ |
| notableFor | early film role of Jack Lemmon ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | American romantic comedy film canon ⓘ |
| plotSummary | An ambitious young woman gains sudden fame by renting a billboard in New York City. ⓘ |
| producer | Fred Kohlmar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1950s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1954 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 87 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Garson Kanin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| starring |
Connie Gilchrist
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jack Lemmon NERFINISHED ⓘ Judy Holliday NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael O'Shea NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Lawford NERFINISHED ⓘ Wendy Barrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 1950s ⓘ |
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: It Should Happen to You Description of subject: It Should Happen to You is a 1954 romantic comedy film starring Judy Holliday as an ambitious young woman who gains sudden fame by renting a billboard in New York City.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Judy Holliday