The Road to Mandalay
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The Road to Mandalay is a 1926 American silent crime drama film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Road to Mandalay canonical | 6 |
| The Road to Mandalay (1926 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2270705 — 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 Road to Mandalay Context triple: [Cullen Landis, notableWork, The Road to Mandalay]
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A.
The Man Who Would Be King
The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 adventure film directed by John Huston, based on Rudyard Kipling’s novella about two British adventurers who attempt to become kings in a remote region of Afghanistan.
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B.
The Vagabond
The Vagabond is a 1916 silent short film starring Charlie Chaplin as his iconic Tramp character, blending comedy and pathos in a story about a wandering violinist.
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C.
The Undiscovered Country
The Undiscovered Country is an 1880 novel by American realist author William Dean Howells that explores spiritualism, social life, and moral dilemmas in post–Civil War New England.
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D.
Lady of the East
Lady of the East is an epithet of the ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, highlighting her protective and benevolent aspects associated with the rising sun and the eastern horizon.
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E.
The Mule
The Mule is a central antagonist in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, a powerful mutant with extraordinary mental abilities that threaten the course of the Galactic Empire's predicted future.
- 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 Road to Mandalay Target entity description: The Road to Mandalay is a 1926 American silent crime drama film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney.
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A.
The Man Who Would Be King
The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 adventure film directed by John Huston, based on Rudyard Kipling’s novella about two British adventurers who attempt to become kings in a remote region of Afghanistan.
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B.
The Vagabond
The Vagabond is a 1916 silent short film starring Charlie Chaplin as his iconic Tramp character, blending comedy and pathos in a story about a wandering violinist.
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C.
The Undiscovered Country
The Undiscovered Country is an 1880 novel by American realist author William Dean Howells that explores spiritualism, social life, and moral dilemmas in post–Civil War New England.
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D.
Lady of the East
Lady of the East is an epithet of the ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet, highlighting her protective and benevolent aspects associated with the rising sun and the eastern horizon.
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E.
The Mule
The Mule is a central antagonist in Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, a powerful mutant with extraordinary mental abilities that threaten the course of the Galactic Empire's predicted future.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime drama film
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film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| basedOn | story by Tod Browning ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | John Arnold ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director | Tod Browning ⓘ |
| distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| editedBy | Ben Lewis ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama ⓘ |
| hasActor | Lon Chaney ⓘ |
| hasBlackAndWhiteVersion | true ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Henry B. Walthall
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Kamiyama Sojin ⓘ Lois Moran ⓘ Lon Chaney ⓘ Owen Moore ⓘ Sojin Kamiyama ⓘ |
| hasDirector | Tod Browning ⓘ |
| hasGenre | drama film ⓘ |
| isPartOfFilmographyOf |
Lon Chaney
ⓘ
Tod Browning ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Silent ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
MGM
ⓘ
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1926 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1926 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 70 minutes ⓘ |
| setIn |
Burma
ⓘ
linked to:
Myanmar
Mandalay ⓘ |
| silent | true ⓘ |
| starring | Lon Chaney ⓘ |
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 Road to Mandalay Description of subject: The Road to Mandalay is a 1926 American silent crime drama film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Road to Mandalay