12th Academy Awards
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The 12th Academy Awards was the 1940 ceremony honoring the best films of 1939, including classics such as "Gone with the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz."
All labels observed (1)
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| 12th Academy Awards canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2546764 — 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: 12th Academy Awards Context triple: [Bachelor Mother, academyAwardsYear, 12th Academy Awards]
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A.
20th Academy Awards
The 20th Academy Awards was the 1948 ceremony honoring the best films of 1947, notable for milestones such as the introduction of the Honorary Academy Award.
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B.
11th Academy Awards
The 11th Academy Awards was the 1939 Oscars ceremony honoring the best films of 1938, notable for awarding "You Can't Take It with You" Best Picture and recognizing performances by stars like Spencer Tracy.
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C.
15th Academy Awards
The 15th Academy Awards was the 1943 ceremony of the Oscars, honoring the best films of 1942 and marking the debut of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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D.
21st Academy Awards
The 21st Academy Awards was the 1949 ceremony honoring the best films of 1948, notable for recognizing classics from Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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E.
13th Academy Awards
The 13th Academy Awards was the 1941 ceremony honoring the best films of 1940, notable for recognizing works such as "Rebecca" and performances like Ginger Rogers' in "Kitty Foyle."
- 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: 12th Academy Awards Target entity description: The 12th Academy Awards was the 1940 ceremony honoring the best films of 1939, including classics such as "Gone with the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz."
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A.
20th Academy Awards
The 20th Academy Awards was the 1948 ceremony honoring the best films of 1947, notable for milestones such as the introduction of the Honorary Academy Award.
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B.
11th Academy Awards
The 11th Academy Awards was the 1939 Oscars ceremony honoring the best films of 1938, notable for awarding "You Can't Take It with You" Best Picture and recognizing performances by stars like Spencer Tracy.
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C.
15th Academy Awards
The 15th Academy Awards was the 1943 ceremony of the Oscars, honoring the best films of 1942 and marking the debut of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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D.
21st Academy Awards
The 21st Academy Awards was the 1949 ceremony honoring the best films of 1948, notable for recognizing classics from Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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E.
13th Academy Awards
The 13th Academy Awards was the 1941 ceremony honoring the best films of 1940, notable for recognizing works such as "Rebecca" and performances like Ginger Rogers' in "Kitty Foyle."
- 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: 12th Academy Awards Description of subject: The 12th Academy Awards was the 1940 ceremony honoring the best films of 1939, including classics such as "Gone with the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
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ceremonyNumber
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12th Academy Awards
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