Modern Times
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Modern Times is a 1936 silent comedy film by Charlie Chaplin that satirizes industrialization and modern society through the misadventures of his iconic Tramp character.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Modern Times canonical | 30 |
| In Modern Times | 1 |
| Les Temps modernes (Modern Times) by Charlie Chaplin | 1 |
| Modern Times (1936 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T216318 — 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: Modern Times Context triple: [Charlie Chaplin, notableWork, Modern Times]
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A.
Modern Times
Modern Times is a critically acclaimed 2006 studio album by Bob Dylan that blends blues, rock, and folk influences with reflective, poetic lyrics.
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B.
Le Siècle
Le Siècle was a prominent 19th-century French newspaper known for publishing major literary works and influencing public opinion in France.
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C.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables is a 2012 epic musical drama film adaptation of the famed Victor Hugo novel and stage musical, known for its sweeping story of injustice and redemption in 19th-century France.
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D.
Ten Days of Repentance
Ten Days of Repentance is the Jewish High Holy Days period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur devoted to introspection, seeking forgiveness, and spiritual renewal.
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E.
La Ville Radieuse
La Ville Radieuse is Le Corbusier’s influential utopian urban planning concept that envisioned a highly ordered, high-density city of towers set within open green spaces.
- 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: Modern Times Target entity description: Modern Times is a 1936 silent comedy film by Charlie Chaplin that satirizes industrialization and modern society through the misadventures of his iconic Tramp character.
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A.
Modern Times
Modern Times is a critically acclaimed 2006 studio album by Bob Dylan that blends blues, rock, and folk influences with reflective, poetic lyrics.
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B.
Le Siècle
Le Siècle was a prominent 19th-century French newspaper known for publishing major literary works and influencing public opinion in France.
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C.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables is a 2012 epic musical drama film adaptation of the famed Victor Hugo novel and stage musical, known for its sweeping story of injustice and redemption in 19th-century France.
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D.
Ten Days of Repentance
Ten Days of Repentance is the Jewish High Holy Days period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur devoted to introspection, seeking forgiveness, and spiritual renewal.
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E.
La Ville Radieuse
La Ville Radieuse is Le Corbusier’s influential utopian urban planning concept that envisioned a highly ordered, high-density city of towers set within open green spaces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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silent comedy film ⓘ |
| characterPlayedBy |
Paulette Goddard as The Gamin
ⓘ
linked to:
Paulette Goddard
|
| cinematographyBy |
Ira Morgan
ⓘ
Rollie Totheroh ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReception | widely acclaimed by critics ⓘ |
| director | Charlie Chaplin ⓘ |
| distributedBy | United Artists ⓘ |
| editedBy | Charlie Chaplin ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | The Gamin ⓘ |
| featuresElement |
limited spoken dialogue
ⓘ
musical score composed by Charlie Chaplin ⓘ synchronized sound effects ⓘ |
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
comedy film
ⓘ
romantic comedy film ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
often considered Chaplin’s last appearance as the Tramp in a feature film
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one of the last major silent-style films ⓘ |
| includedIn | numerous lists of greatest films of all time ⓘ |
| isBlackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | The Tramp ⓘ |
| musicBy | Charlie Chaplin ⓘ |
| notableScene |
factory assembly line sequence
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feeding machine sequence ⓘ nonsense song performance in a restaurant ⓘ roller-skating near a ledge in a department store ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays |
factory work
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labor strikes ⓘ police repression ⓘ poverty ⓘ urban life ⓘ |
| portraysCharacter |
Charlie Chaplin as The Tramp
ⓘ
linked to:
The Tramp
|
| producer | Charlie Chaplin ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Charles Chaplin Film Corporation
ⓘ
linked to:
Charles Chaplin Productions
|
| releaseDate | 1936-02-05 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 87 ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Great Depression ⓘ |
| starring |
Charlie Chaplin
ⓘ
Paulette Goddard ⓘ |
| theme |
alienation
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class struggle ⓘ industrialization ⓘ mechanization of labor ⓘ modern society ⓘ unemployment ⓘ |
| writer | Charlie Chaplin ⓘ |
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: Modern Times Description of subject: Modern Times is a 1936 silent comedy film by Charlie Chaplin that satirizes industrialization and modern society through the misadventures of his iconic Tramp character.
Referenced by (33)
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