The Children’s Hour
E290096
The Children’s Hour is a 1934 stage play by Lillian Hellman that centers on the devastating consequences of a false accusation of lesbianism against two women who run a girls’ boarding school.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Children’s Hour canonical | 3 |
| The Children's Hour | 1 |
| The Children’s Hour (1961 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2706528 — 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 Children’s Hour Context triple: [Lillian Hellman, notableWork, The Children’s Hour]
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A.
Splendor in the Grass
Splendor in the Grass is a 1961 American romantic drama film starring Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty that explores repressed sexuality, emotional breakdown, and societal expectations in 1920s Kansas.
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B.
The Most Happy Fella
The Most Happy Fella is a 1956 Broadway musical by Frank Loesser, known for its operatic score and romantic story set in California’s Napa Valley.
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C.
The Nun's Story
The Nun's Story is a 1959 drama film following a young Belgian woman’s struggle between her religious vocation and personal convictions, widely acclaimed for Audrey Hepburn’s powerful, restrained performance.
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D.
Three Tall Women
Three Tall Women is a Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Edward Albee that explores memory, aging, and identity through three characters who represent different stages of a woman's life.
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E.
A Place in the Sun
A Place in the Sun is a 1951 American romantic drama film, based on Theodore Dreiser’s novel "An American Tragedy," renowned for its tragic love story and acclaimed performances by Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift.
- 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 Children’s Hour Target entity description: The Children’s Hour is a 1934 stage play by Lillian Hellman that centers on the devastating consequences of a false accusation of lesbianism against two women who run a girls’ boarding school.
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A.
Splendor in the Grass
Splendor in the Grass is a 1961 American romantic drama film starring Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty that explores repressed sexuality, emotional breakdown, and societal expectations in 1920s Kansas.
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B.
The Most Happy Fella
The Most Happy Fella is a 1956 Broadway musical by Frank Loesser, known for its operatic score and romantic story set in California’s Napa Valley.
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C.
The Nun's Story
The Nun's Story is a 1959 drama film following a young Belgian woman’s struggle between her religious vocation and personal convictions, widely acclaimed for Audrey Hepburn’s powerful, restrained performance.
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D.
Three Tall Women
Three Tall Women is a Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Edward Albee that explores memory, aging, and identity through three characters who represent different stages of a woman's life.
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E.
A Place in the Sun
A Place in the Sun is a 1951 American romantic drama film, based on Theodore Dreiser’s novel "An American Tragedy," renowned for its tragic love story and acclaimed performances by Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drama
ⓘ
stage play ⓘ |
| antagonistRole | malicious schoolgirl ⓘ |
| author | Lillian Hellman ⓘ |
| censorshipHistory | subject to censorship because of lesbian themes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dramaticStructure | three-act play ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1934 ⓘ |
| genre |
LGBT-related play
ⓘ
drama ⓘ tragedy ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Children’s Hour (1961 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Children’s Hour
These Three ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
destruction of reputation
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false accusation of lesbianism ⓘ gossip and rumor ⓘ homophobia ⓘ social repression ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | false accusation ⓘ |
| notableFor |
controversy over morality and censorship
ⓘ
early depiction of lesbianism on the American stage ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalMedium | theatre ⓘ |
| placeOfFirstPerformance |
Broadway
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| protagonistRole |
female school headmistress
ⓘ
female schoolteacher ⓘ |
| setting | girls’ boarding school ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
boarding school life
ⓘ
lesbianism ⓘ psychological trauma ⓘ social scandal ⓘ |
| writer | Lillian Hellman ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1934 ⓘ |
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 Children’s Hour Description of subject: The Children’s Hour is a 1934 stage play by Lillian Hellman that centers on the devastating consequences of a false accusation of lesbianism against two women who run a girls’ boarding school.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.