The Little Colonel
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The Little Colonel is a 1935 American film best known for pairing Shirley Temple with Lionel Barrymore and featuring one of the earliest interracial dance scenes in Hollywood history.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Little Colonel canonical | 14 |
| The Little Colonel (1935 film) | 2 |
| Little Colonel series | 1 |
| The Little Colonel (Lloyd Sherman) | 1 |
| The Little Colonel (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2179036 — 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 Little Colonel Context triple: [Hattie McDaniel, notableWork, The Little Colonel]
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A.
Little War
The Little War was a Cuban insurrection against Spanish colonial rule from 1879 to 1880, serving as a follow-up attempt to achieve independence after the Ten Years' War.
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Light-Horse Harry
Light-Horse Harry was the popular nickname of Henry Lee III, a dashing American cavalry officer of the Revolutionary War and father of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
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C.
Troop Zero
Troop Zero is a 2019 family comedy-drama film about a misfit girl in 1970s rural Georgia who forms an unconventional Birdie Scout troop to compete for a chance to have her voice recorded on NASA’s Golden Record.
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D.
The G.I.’s General
The G.I.’s General is a nickname for U.S. Army General Omar Bradley, renowned World War II commander known for his leadership of American ground forces in Europe and his reputation as a soldiers’ general.
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E.
The Little Giant
"The Little Giant" is a 1926 silent comedy film starring Colleen Moore, known for its lighthearted story and showcasing the flapper-era charm that made her a major star of the time.
- 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 Little Colonel Target entity description: The Little Colonel is a 1935 American film best known for pairing Shirley Temple with Lionel Barrymore and featuring one of the earliest interracial dance scenes in Hollywood history.
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A.
Little War
The Little War was a Cuban insurrection against Spanish colonial rule from 1879 to 1880, serving as a follow-up attempt to achieve independence after the Ten Years' War.
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B.
Light-Horse Harry
Light-Horse Harry was the popular nickname of Henry Lee III, a dashing American cavalry officer of the Revolutionary War and father of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
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C.
Troop Zero
Troop Zero is a 2019 family comedy-drama film about a misfit girl in 1970s rural Georgia who forms an unconventional Birdie Scout troop to compete for a chance to have her voice recorded on NASA’s Golden Record.
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D.
The G.I.’s General
The G.I.’s General is a nickname for U.S. Army General Omar Bradley, renowned World War II commander known for his leadership of American ground forces in Europe and his reputation as a soldiers’ general.
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E.
The Little Giant
"The Little Giant" is a 1926 silent comedy film starring Colleen Moore, known for its lighthearted story and showcasing the flapper-era charm that made her a major star of the time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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 Little Colonel Description of subject: The Little Colonel is a 1935 American film best known for pairing Shirley Temple with Lionel Barrymore and featuring one of the earliest interracial dance scenes in Hollywood history.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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