The Kid
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The Kid is a 1921 silent comedy-drama film written, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, renowned for blending slapstick humor with poignant social commentary through the story of a tramp caring for an abandoned child.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Kid canonical | 30 |
| The Kid (1921 film) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T216315 — 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 Kid Context triple: [Charlie Chaplin, notableWork, The Kid]
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A.
Bugsy Malone
Bugsy Malone is a 1976 British musical gangster film, featuring an all-child cast in a parody of 1920s mobster movies, in which Jodie Foster plays a prominent role.
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B.
Coming Home
"Coming Home" is a song featured on the album "Once Again," likely recognized as one of its individual tracks.
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C.
National Velvet
National Velvet is a classic 1944 family sports drama film about a young girl and her horse competing in the Grand National steeplechase.
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D.
K-9 and Company
K-9 and Company is a British science-fiction television series set in the Doctor Who universe, featuring the Doctor’s robotic dog K-9 and former companion Sarah Jane Smith in their own adventures.
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E.
Boys Town
Boys Town is a 1938 American drama film starring Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney, inspired by the real-life Father Flanagan’s home for troubled boys in Nebraska.
- 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 Kid Target entity description: The Kid is a 1921 silent comedy-drama film written, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, renowned for blending slapstick humor with poignant social commentary through the story of a tramp caring for an abandoned child.
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A.
Bugsy Malone
Bugsy Malone is a 1976 British musical gangster film, featuring an all-child cast in a parody of 1920s mobster movies, in which Jodie Foster plays a prominent role.
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B.
Coming Home
"Coming Home" is a song featured on the album "Once Again," likely recognized as one of its individual tracks.
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C.
National Velvet
National Velvet is a classic 1944 family sports drama film about a young girl and her horse competing in the Grand National steeplechase.
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D.
K-9 and Company
K-9 and Company is a British science-fiction television series set in the Doctor Who universe, featuring the Doctor’s robotic dog K-9 and former companion Sarah Jane Smith in their own adventures.
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E.
Boys Town
Boys Town is a 1938 American drama film starring Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney, inspired by the real-life Father Flanagan’s home for troubled boys in Nebraska.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy-drama film
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film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| boxOfficePerformance | commercial success ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| criticalReception | acclaimed ⓘ |
| director | Charlie Chaplin ⓘ |
| distributor | First National Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Charlie Chaplin ⓘ |
| era | silent era ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
The Kid
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The Tramp ⓘ |
| filmingEndYear | 1920 ⓘ |
| filmingStartYear | 1919 ⓘ |
| followsStoryOf | a tramp caring for an abandoned child ⓘ |
| hasCinematographyBy | Roland Totheroh ⓘ |
| hasFilmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| hasFilmPosterDesigner | unknown ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
comedy
ⓘ
comedy-drama ⓘ drama ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
later comedy-drama films
ⓘ
portrayals of cinematic childhood ⓘ |
| hasRestoredVersion | 1971 re-release with new score by Charlie Chaplin ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
melodrama
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slapstick comedy ⓘ |
| includedIn | canon of classic silent films ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
abandonment
ⓘ
parent-child relationship ⓘ poverty ⓘ |
| musicBy | Charlie Chaplin ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blend of slapstick and pathos
ⓘ
social commentary on poverty ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Silent film ⓘ |
| portrays | life in urban slums ⓘ |
| producer | Charlie Chaplin ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Charles Chaplin Productions ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1921-01-21 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1921 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 68 ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| star |
Charlie Chaplin
ⓘ
Jackie Coogan ⓘ |
| starsAsCharacter |
Charlie Chaplin as The Tramp
ⓘ
linked to:
The Tramp
Jackie Coogan as The Kid ⓘ |
| 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: The Kid Description of subject: The Kid is a 1921 silent comedy-drama film written, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, renowned for blending slapstick humor with poignant social commentary through the story of a tramp caring for an abandoned child.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Fox
subject linked to:
Coogan
linked to: The Kid
subject linked to:
Lita Grey as Charlie Chaplin's second wife