So Big (1953 film)
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So Big (1953 film) is a 1953 American drama film adaptation of Edna Ferber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, starring Sterling Hayden.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| So Big (1953 film) canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T964972 — 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: So Big (1953 film) Context triple: [Sterling Hayden, notableWork, So Big (1953 film)]
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A.
Splendor in the Grass
Splendor in the Grass is a 1961 American romantic drama film starring Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty that explores repressed sexuality, emotional breakdown, and societal expectations in 1920s Kansas.
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B.
The Seven Year Itch
The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 romantic comedy film best known for Marilyn Monroe’s iconic subway-grate dress scene and its satirical take on mid-century marriage and temptation.
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C.
On the Town
On the Town is a 1944 Broadway musical with music by Leonard Bernstein that follows three sailors on 24-hour shore leave in New York City, later adapted into a popular 1949 film.
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D.
The Band Wagon
The Band Wagon is a classic 1953 MGM musical film starring Fred Astaire, celebrated for its sophisticated song-and-dance numbers and backstage showbiz storyline.
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E.
The Most Happy Fella
The Most Happy Fella is a 1956 Broadway musical by Frank Loesser, known for its operatic score and romantic story set in California’s Napa Valley.
- 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: So Big (1953 film) Target entity description: So Big (1953 film) is a 1953 American drama film adaptation of Edna Ferber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, starring Sterling Hayden.
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A.
Splendor in the Grass
Splendor in the Grass is a 1961 American romantic drama film starring Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty that explores repressed sexuality, emotional breakdown, and societal expectations in 1920s Kansas.
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B.
The Seven Year Itch
The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 romantic comedy film best known for Marilyn Monroe’s iconic subway-grate dress scene and its satirical take on mid-century marriage and temptation.
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C.
On the Town
On the Town is a 1944 Broadway musical with music by Leonard Bernstein that follows three sailors on 24-hour shore leave in New York City, later adapted into a popular 1949 film.
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D.
The Band Wagon
The Band Wagon is a classic 1953 MGM musical film starring Fred Astaire, celebrated for its sophisticated song-and-dance numbers and backstage showbiz storyline.
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E.
The Most Happy Fella
The Most Happy Fella is a 1956 Broadway musical by Frank Loesser, known for its operatic score and romantic story set in California’s Napa Valley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American drama film
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film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "So Big" ⓘ |
| basedOn | So Big (novel) ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Edna Ferber ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationType | film adaptation ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
motherhood
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personal sacrifice ⓘ rural life ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | fiction ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| productionCountry |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| publicationYearOfSourceMaterial | 1924 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1953 ⓘ |
| sourceMaterialAward |
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel
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linked to:
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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| starredActor | Sterling Hayden ⓘ |
| title | So Big ⓘ |
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: So Big (1953 film) Description of subject: So Big (1953 film) is a 1953 American drama film adaptation of Edna Ferber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, starring Sterling Hayden.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.