The House of the Seven Gables (1917 film)
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The House of the Seven Gables (1917 film) is a silent American drama adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, now considered a lost film from the early era of cinema.
All labels observed (1)
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| The House of the Seven Gables (1917 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2070321 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The House of the Seven Gables (1917 film) Context triple: [The House of the Seven Gables, adaptedAs, The House of the Seven Gables (1917 film)]
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The House of the Seven Gables (1910 film)
The House of the Seven Gables (1910 film) is a silent drama motion picture adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic Gothic novel, produced in the early years of American cinema.
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The House of the Seven Gables (1960 TV film)
The House of the Seven Gables (1960 TV film) is a television drama adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic Gothic novel, focusing on a New England family cursed by guilt, greed, and a haunted ancestral mansion.
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The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of guilt, retribution, and inherited sin through the history of a cursed New England family and their ancestral mansion.
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The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables is a historic 17th-century mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, best known as the setting and inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel of the same name.
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The Scarlet Letter (1934 film)
The Scarlet Letter (1934 film) is an American drama adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel, focusing on the themes of sin, guilt, and social judgment in Puritan New England.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The House of the Seven Gables (1917 film) Target entity description: The House of the Seven Gables (1917 film) is a silent American drama adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, now considered a lost film from the early era of cinema.
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A.
The House of the Seven Gables (1910 film)
The House of the Seven Gables (1910 film) is a silent drama motion picture adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic Gothic novel, produced in the early years of American cinema.
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B.
The House of the Seven Gables (1960 TV film)
The House of the Seven Gables (1960 TV film) is a television drama adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic Gothic novel, focusing on a New England family cursed by guilt, greed, and a haunted ancestral mansion.
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C.
The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne that explores themes of guilt, retribution, and inherited sin through the history of a cursed New England family and their ancestral mansion.
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D.
The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables is a historic 17th-century mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, best known as the setting and inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel of the same name.
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E.
The Scarlet Letter (1934 film)
The Scarlet Letter (1934 film) is an American drama adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel, focusing on the themes of sin, guilt, and social judgment in Puritan New England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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black-and-white film ⓘ drama film ⓘ lost film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf |
The House of the Seven Gables (novel)
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linked to:
The House of the Seven Gables
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| authorOfSourceWork | Nathaniel Hawthorne ⓘ |
| basedOn | The House of the Seven Gables ⓘ |
| basedOnGenre | Gothic novel ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfSourceWorkAuthor |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| filmFormat | black and white ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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silent film ⓘ |
| isLostFilm | true ⓘ |
| language | Silent (English intertitles) ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeFeature | adaptation of classic American literature ⓘ |
| productionEra | silent era ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1910s ⓘ |
| settingOfSourceWork | Salem, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| sourceWorkAuthorMovement | American Romanticism ⓘ |
| sourceWorkAuthorOccupation | novelist ⓘ |
| sourceWorkLanguage | English ⓘ |
| sourceWorkPublicationCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The House of the Seven Gables (1917 film) Description of subject: The House of the Seven Gables (1917 film) is a silent American drama adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, now considered a lost film from the early era of cinema.
Referenced by (1)
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