Magic Town
E191718
Magic Town is a 1947 American comedy film starring James Stewart as a pollster who exploits a statistically average small town, directed by William A. Wellman and written by Robert Riskin.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Magic Town canonical | 7 |
| The Magic Town | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1687343 — 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: Magic Town Context triple: [Robert Riskin, notableWork, Magic Town]
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A.
Toy Town
Toy Town is the colorful, whimsical village setting in Enid Blyton’s Noddy stories, inhabited by living toys and other playful characters.
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B.
Neighborhood of Make-Believe
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is a whimsical puppet-populated fantasy world visited in "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," where stories, feelings, and life lessons are explored through imaginative play.
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C.
The Town
The Town is a 1957 novel by William Faulkner, part of his Snopes trilogy, that explores the rise of the Snopes family and the changing social fabric of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
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D.
Stiltsville
Stiltsville is a historic collection of wooden stilt houses built over the shallow waters of Biscayne Bay near Miami, Florida.
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E.
The Land of Dreams
The Land of Dreams is a fantastical realm in Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree stories where visitors experience vivid, often whimsical dreams and adventures.
- 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: Magic Town Target entity description: Magic Town is a 1947 American comedy film starring James Stewart as a pollster who exploits a statistically average small town, directed by William A. Wellman and written by Robert Riskin.
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A.
Toy Town
Toy Town is the colorful, whimsical village setting in Enid Blyton’s Noddy stories, inhabited by living toys and other playful characters.
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B.
Neighborhood of Make-Believe
The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is a whimsical puppet-populated fantasy world visited in "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," where stories, feelings, and life lessons are explored through imaginative play.
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C.
The Town
The Town is a 1957 novel by William Faulkner, part of his Snopes trilogy, that explores the rise of the Snopes family and the changing social fabric of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
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D.
Stiltsville
Stiltsville is a historic collection of wooden stilt houses built over the shallow waters of Biscayne Bay near Miami, Florida.
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E.
The Land of Dreams
The Land of Dreams is a fantastical realm in Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree stories where visitors experience vivid, often whimsical dreams and adventures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American comedy film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedBy | Rip Smith – James Stewart ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | William C. Mellor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| director | William A. Wellman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | James E. Newcom ⓘ |
| era | post-World War II American cinema ⓘ |
| featuresProfession | pollster ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| filmingProcess | RKO black-and-white production ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle |
The Magic Town
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linked to:
Magic Town
|
| hasTheme |
ethics in business
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public opinion polling ⓘ small-town life ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActor | James Stewart ⓘ |
| leadActress | Jane Wyman ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Rip Smith ⓘ |
| musicBy | Roy Webb ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | use of a "magic" average town for opinion surveys ⓘ |
| notableFor | early cinematic treatment of opinion polling ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A pollster discovers a statistically average small town and secretly uses it to predict national opinion, leading to complications when the town learns of the exploitation. ⓘ |
| producer | Robert Riskin ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Liberty Films ⓘ |
| releaseDate | October 7, 1947 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1947 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 103 ⓘ |
| screenplayBy | Robert Riskin ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Robert Riskin ⓘ |
| setting | small American town ⓘ |
| starring |
Ann Doran
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Donald Crisp ⓘ James Stewart ⓘ Jane Wyman ⓘ Kent Smith ⓘ Margaret Hamilton ⓘ Ned Sparks ⓘ Pierre Watkin ⓘ Regis Toomey ⓘ Wallace Ford ⓘ |
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: Magic Town Description of subject: Magic Town is a 1947 American comedy film starring James Stewart as a pollster who exploits a statistically average small town, directed by William A. Wellman and written by Robert Riskin.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Magic Town
subject linked to:
Rip Smith – James Stewart
subject linked to:
Rip Smith – James Stewart