The Little American
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The Little American is a 1917 silent World War I drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Mary Pickford as an American woman caught between warring nations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Little American canonical | 12 |
| The Little American (1917 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2529390 — 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 American Context triple: [Jean Acker, notableWork, The Little American]
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A.
The Little Colonel
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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B.
Corduroy
"Corduroy" is a popular rock song by the American band Pearl Jam, known for its dynamic structure and emotionally charged lyrics.
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C.
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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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.
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E.
Jay and the Americans
Jay and the Americans were a popular American rock and pop group of the 1960s known for hits like "Come a Little Bit Closer" and "Cara Mia."
- 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 American Target entity description: The Little American is a 1917 silent World War I drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Mary Pickford as an American woman caught between warring nations.
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A.
The Little Colonel
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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B.
Corduroy
"Corduroy" is a popular rock song by the American band Pearl Jam, known for its dynamic structure and emotionally charged lyrics.
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C.
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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D.
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.
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E.
Jay and the Americans
Jay and the Americans were a popular American rock and pop group of the 1960s known for hits like "Come a Little Bit Closer" and "Cara Mia."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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 American Description of subject: The Little American is a 1917 silent World War I drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Mary Pickford as an American woman caught between warring nations.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Little American