The Life (Broadway musical)
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The Life is a gritty Broadway musical with music by Cy Coleman that portrays the lives of Times Square sex workers and hustlers in 1980s New York City.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Life (Broadway musical) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10888597 — 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 Life (Broadway musical) Context triple: [Martin Richards, notableWork, The Life (Broadway musical)]
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A.
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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B.
Hair (Broadway revival)
Hair (Broadway revival) is a modern Broadway staging of the landmark 1960s rock musical about love, peace, and the counterculture movement.
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C.
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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D.
They’re Playing Our Song (Broadway musical)
"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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E.
Give My Regards to Broadway
Give My Regards to Broadway is a 1948 American musical film starring Dan Dailey as a vaudeville performer struggling to adapt to changing entertainment tastes.
- 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 Life (Broadway musical) Target entity description: The Life is a gritty Broadway musical with music by Cy Coleman that portrays the lives of Times Square sex workers and hustlers in 1980s New York City.
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A.
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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B.
Hair (Broadway revival)
Hair (Broadway revival) is a modern Broadway staging of the landmark 1960s rock musical about love, peace, and the counterculture movement.
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C.
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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D.
They’re Playing Our Song (Broadway musical)
"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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E.
Give My Regards to Broadway
Give My Regards to Broadway is a 1948 American musical film starring Dan Dailey as a vaudeville performer struggling to adapt to changing entertainment tastes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Broadway musical
ⓘ
stage musical ⓘ |
| awardsRecognition | nominated for Tony Awards ⓘ |
| bookBy |
Cy Coleman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ Ira Gasman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| BroadwayOpeningDate | 1997 ⓘ |
| composer | Cy Coleman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
drug use
ⓘ
prostitution ⓘ street crime ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
musical theatre ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Fleetwood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jojo NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ Queen NERFINISHED ⓘ Sonja NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Ira Gasman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
dreams and disillusionment
ⓘ
exploitation ⓘ survival in an urban underworld ⓘ |
| musicStyle |
R&B influences
ⓘ
contemporary Broadway ⓘ jazz influences ⓘ |
| notableSong |
Easy Money
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
My Body NERFINISHED ⓘ My Friend NERFINISHED ⓘ The Oldest Profession NERFINISHED ⓘ Use What You Got NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalBroadwayProducer | Livent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalBroadwayProductionTheatre | Ethel Barrymore Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays |
Times Square red-light district
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
pimps and hustlers ⓘ street-level sex trade ⓘ |
| premieredOnBroadway | true ⓘ |
| premiereLocation | Off-Broadway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingCity | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Times Square NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | 1980s ⓘ |
| subject |
hustlers
ⓘ
sex workers ⓘ |
| theatricalRunType | Broadway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tone | gritty ⓘ |
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: The Life (Broadway musical) Description of subject: The Life is a gritty Broadway musical with music by Cy Coleman that portrays the lives of Times Square sex workers and hustlers in 1980s New York City.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.