The Awful Truth
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The Awful Truth is a 1937 screwball comedy film starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, celebrated for its witty dialogue and influential role in defining the genre.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Awful Truth canonical | 26 |
| The Awful Truth (1937 film) | 2 |
| The Awful Truth (play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1687345 — 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 Awful Truth Context triple: [Robert Riskin, notableWork, The Awful Truth]
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A.
Suddenly, Last Summer
"Suddenly, Last Summer" is a 1959 psychological drama film, based on Tennessee Williams' play, that explores themes of mental illness, repression, and family secrets.
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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.
The Provoked Wife
The Provoked Wife is a late 17th-century Restoration comedy play by John Vanbrugh, known for its sharp wit and exploration of marriage and female agency.
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D.
Behind the Candelabra
Behind the Candelabra is a 2013 biographical drama film about pianist Liberace’s secret relationship with Scott Thorson, starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon and directed by Steven Soderbergh.
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E.
Three Tall Women
Three Tall Women is a Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Edward Albee that explores memory, aging, and identity through three characters who represent different stages of a woman's life.
- 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 Awful Truth Target entity description: The Awful Truth is a 1937 screwball comedy film starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, celebrated for its witty dialogue and influential role in defining the genre.
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A.
Suddenly, Last Summer
"Suddenly, Last Summer" is a 1959 psychological drama film, based on Tennessee Williams' play, that explores themes of mental illness, repression, and family secrets.
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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.
The Provoked Wife
The Provoked Wife is a late 17th-century Restoration comedy play by John Vanbrugh, known for its sharp wit and exploration of marriage and female agency.
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D.
Behind the Candelabra
Behind the Candelabra is a 2013 biographical drama film about pianist Liberace’s secret relationship with Scott Thorson, starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon and directed by Steven Soderbergh.
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E.
Three Tall Women
Three Tall Women is a Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Edward Albee that explores memory, aging, and identity through three characters who represent different stages of a woman's life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Awful Truth Description of subject: The Awful Truth is a 1937 screwball comedy film starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, celebrated for its witty dialogue and influential role in defining the genre.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Awful Truth
linked to: The Awful Truth
subject linked to:
Irene Marie Dunn
linked to: The Awful Truth