The Adding Machine
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The Adding Machine is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Sydney Chaplin, loosely based on Elmer Rice’s play about a meek accountant replaced by a mechanical calculator.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Adding Machine canonical | 9 |
| The Adding Machine (play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1318565 — 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 Adding Machine Context triple: [Sydney Chaplin (son of Charlie Chaplin), notableWork, The Adding Machine]
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A.
The Machine of the World
The Machine of the World is a famous allegorical vision in Luís de Camões’ epic poem *Os Lusíadas*, in which the cosmos and its secrets are revealed to the Portuguese explorers.
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B.
The Machine Stops
The Machine Stops is a 1909 dystopian science fiction short story depicting a future society utterly dependent on an all-controlling technological system and the consequences when it fails.
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C.
The Human Comedy
The Human Comedy is a 1943 novel by William Saroyan that portrays the lives and struggles of a small-town American family during World War II.
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D.
The Cobweb
The Cobweb is a 1955 American drama film directed by Vincente Minnelli, set in a psychiatric clinic and known for its focus on interpersonal tensions symbolized through a dispute over new drapes.
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E.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
- 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 Adding Machine Target entity description: The Adding Machine is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Sydney Chaplin, loosely based on Elmer Rice’s play about a meek accountant replaced by a mechanical calculator.
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A.
The Machine of the World
The Machine of the World is a famous allegorical vision in Luís de Camões’ epic poem *Os Lusíadas*, in which the cosmos and its secrets are revealed to the Portuguese explorers.
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B.
The Machine Stops
The Machine Stops is a 1909 dystopian science fiction short story depicting a future society utterly dependent on an all-controlling technological system and the consequences when it fails.
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C.
The Human Comedy
The Human Comedy is a 1943 novel by William Saroyan that portrays the lives and struggles of a small-town American family during World War II.
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D.
The Cobweb
The Cobweb is a 1955 American drama film directed by Vincente Minnelli, set in a psychiatric clinic and known for its focus on interpersonal tensions symbolized through a dispute over new drapes.
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E.
The Machine
The Machine is the nickname of Albert Pujols, a Dominican-American former Major League Baseball first baseman renowned for his remarkably consistent and powerful hitting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy film
ⓘ
feature film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | stage play ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Adding Machine (play)
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linked to:
The Adding Machine
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| basedOnWorkAuthor | Elmer Rice ⓘ |
| castMember |
Sydney Chaplin
ⓘ
linked to:
Sydney Chaplin (son of Charlie Chaplin)
|
| characterType | meek accountant ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| era | 1920s American cinema ⓘ |
| features | mechanical calculator ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
silent film ⓘ |
| hasFormat | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| hasMedium | motion picture film ⓘ |
| hasStar |
Sydney Chaplin
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linked to:
Sydney Chaplin (son of Charlie Chaplin)
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| hasWorkType | adaptation ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Silent film (English intertitles) ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A meek accountant is replaced at his job by a mechanical calculator. ⓘ |
| productionEra | silent era ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1923 ⓘ |
| stars |
Sydney Chaplin
ⓘ
linked to:
Sydney Chaplin (son of Charlie Chaplin)
|
| subject |
accounting
ⓘ
mechanization of office work ⓘ office life ⓘ replacement of workers by machines ⓘ |
| title | The Adding Machine ⓘ |
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 Adding Machine Description of subject: The Adding Machine is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Sydney Chaplin, loosely based on Elmer Rice’s play about a meek accountant replaced by a mechanical calculator.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Adding Machine