Headlong
E1037197
Headlong is a play by Welsh dramatist Emlyn Williams, best known for its tense psychological drama and sharply drawn characters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Headlong canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13386774 — 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: Headlong Context triple: [Emlyn Williams, wrote, Headlong]
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A.
Headlong
Headlong is a comic novel by Michael Frayn in which a hapless philosopher becomes obsessed with a possibly undiscovered Bruegel painting, blending farce with art-historical intrigue.
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B.
The Actress
The Actress is a 1953 American comedy-drama film, directed by George Cukor and based on Ruth Gordon’s autobiographical play, depicting a young woman’s determination to pursue a stage career against her father’s wishes.
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C.
Come Hither
Come Hither is a celebrated anthology of poetry for children compiled by Walter de la Mare, known for its rich selection of classic and lesser-known verse accompanied by the editor’s evocative notes.
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D.
Dodsworth
Dodsworth is a 1936 drama film, based on Sinclair Lewis's novel, that explores the disintegration of a wealthy American couple's marriage during a European trip.
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E.
The Woman
The Woman is Willy Loman’s unnamed mistress in Arthur Miller’s play "Death of a Salesman," symbolizing his infidelity and the illusory rewards of his failed pursuit of success.
- 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: Headlong Target entity description: Headlong is a play by Welsh dramatist Emlyn Williams, best known for its tense psychological drama and sharply drawn characters.
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A.
Headlong
Headlong is a comic novel by Michael Frayn in which a hapless philosopher becomes obsessed with a possibly undiscovered Bruegel painting, blending farce with art-historical intrigue.
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B.
The Actress
The Actress is a 1953 American comedy-drama film, directed by George Cukor and based on Ruth Gordon’s autobiographical play, depicting a young woman’s determination to pursue a stage career against her father’s wishes.
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C.
Come Hither
Come Hither is a celebrated anthology of poetry for children compiled by Walter de la Mare, known for its rich selection of classic and lesser-known verse accompanied by the editor’s evocative notes.
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D.
Dodsworth
Dodsworth is a 1936 drama film, based on Sinclair Lewis's novel, that explores the disintegration of a wealthy American couple's marriage during a European trip.
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E.
The Woman
The Woman is Willy Loman’s unnamed mistress in Arthur Miller’s play "Death of a Salesman," symbolizing his infidelity and the illusory rewards of his failed pursuit of success.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dramatist
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play ⓘ playwright ⓘ theatrical work ⓘ |
| author | Emlyn Williams ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creatorNationality | Welsh ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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psychological drama ⓘ |
| nationality | Welsh ⓘ |
| notableFor |
sharply drawn characters
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tense psychological drama ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor | Emlyn Williams ⓘ |
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: Headlong Description of subject: Headlong is a play by Welsh dramatist Emlyn Williams, best known for its tense psychological drama and sharply drawn characters.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.