The Fortune Hunter
E206077
"The Fortune Hunter" is a 1927 silent comedy film directed by Charles Reisner, based on the popular stage play by Winchell Smith.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Fortune Hunter canonical | 4 |
| The Fortune Hunter (play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1846569 — 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 Fortune Hunter Context triple: [Helene Costello, appearedIn, The Fortune Hunter]
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A.
That Fortune
"That Fortune" is a lesser-known novel by American essayist and editor Charles Dudley Warner, reflecting his characteristic blend of social observation and genteel humor.
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B.
A Hazard of New Fortunes
A Hazard of New Fortunes is an 1890 realist novel by William Dean Howells that portrays the social, economic, and cultural tensions of Gilded Age New York City through the experiences of a literary magazine’s staff.
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C.
A Golden Chain
A Golden Chain is a seminal 16th-century Puritan theological work by William Perkins that systematically presents the doctrine of predestination and the order of salvation.
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D.
Child of Fortune
Child of Fortune is a science fiction novel by Norman Spinrad that follows a young woman’s psychedelic, picaresque journey of self-discovery in a far-future galactic civilization.
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E.
Daughter of Fortune
Daughter of Fortune is a historical novel by Isabel Allende that follows a young Chilean woman’s journey from Valparaíso to Gold Rush–era California in a sweeping tale of love, identity, and independence.
- 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 Fortune Hunter Target entity description: "The Fortune Hunter" is a 1927 silent comedy film directed by Charles Reisner, based on the popular stage play by Winchell Smith.
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A.
That Fortune
"That Fortune" is a lesser-known novel by American essayist and editor Charles Dudley Warner, reflecting his characteristic blend of social observation and genteel humor.
-
B.
A Hazard of New Fortunes
A Hazard of New Fortunes is an 1890 realist novel by William Dean Howells that portrays the social, economic, and cultural tensions of Gilded Age New York City through the experiences of a literary magazine’s staff.
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C.
A Golden Chain
A Golden Chain is a seminal 16th-century Puritan theological work by William Perkins that systematically presents the doctrine of predestination and the order of salvation.
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D.
Child of Fortune
Child of Fortune is a science fiction novel by Norman Spinrad that follows a young woman’s psychedelic, picaresque journey of self-discovery in a far-future galactic civilization.
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E.
Daughter of Fortune
Daughter of Fortune is a historical novel by Isabel Allende that follows a young Chilean woman’s journey from Valparaíso to Gold Rush–era California in a sweeping tale of love, identity, and independence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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comedy film ⓘ feature film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | stage play ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Fortune Hunter (play)
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linked to:
The Fortune Hunter
|
| basedOnCreator | Winchell Smith ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| decadeOfRelease | 1920s ⓘ |
| director | Charles Reisner ⓘ |
| directorOfPhotography | unknown ⓘ |
| distributor | unknown ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| filmStatus | unknown ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasIntertitlesIn | English ⓘ |
| hasMedium | film ⓘ |
| language | Silent ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | fiction ⓘ |
| playwrightOfSourceWork | Winchell Smith ⓘ |
| productionCompany | unknown ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1927 ⓘ |
| runningTime | unknown ⓘ |
| sourceWorkGenre | stage comedy ⓘ |
| sourceWorkMedium | theatrical play ⓘ |
| title | The Fortune Hunter ⓘ |
| workType | cinematic adaptation ⓘ |
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 Fortune Hunter Description of subject: "The Fortune Hunter" is a 1927 silent comedy film directed by Charles Reisner, based on the popular stage play by Winchell Smith.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Fortune Hunter