A Town Like Alice
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A Town Like Alice is a 1956 British film adaptation of Nevil Shute’s novel, depicting a woman’s harrowing experiences as a prisoner of war in Malaya during World War II and her later efforts to rebuild lives in the Australian outback.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2892134 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Town Like Alice Context triple: [Peter Finch, notableWork, A Town Like Alice]
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River Amber
The River Amber is a small river in Derbyshire, England, that flows through the Amber Valley before joining the River Derwent.
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The Rescue
The Rescue is a dramatic 1855 painting by British Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais depicting a father saving his children from a burning building.
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A Cry in the Dark
A Cry in the Dark is a 1988 Australian drama film, also known as Evil Angels, that dramatizes the true story of Lindy Chamberlain, whose baby’s disappearance at Uluru led to one of Australia’s most infamous legal cases.
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The Town
The Town is a 1957 novel by William Faulkner, part of his Snopes trilogy, that explores the rise of the Snopes family and the changing social fabric of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
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The Town
The Town is a 2010 crime thriller film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, centered on a crew of Boston bank robbers and the personal and moral conflicts that arise after one of them falls for a former hostage.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Town Like Alice Target entity description: A Town Like Alice is a 1956 British film adaptation of Nevil Shute’s novel, depicting a woman’s harrowing experiences as a prisoner of war in Malaya during World War II and her later efforts to rebuild lives in the Australian outback.
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A.
River Amber
The River Amber is a small river in Derbyshire, England, that flows through the Amber Valley before joining the River Derwent.
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B.
The Rescue
The Rescue is a dramatic 1855 painting by British Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais depicting a father saving his children from a burning building.
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C.
A Cry in the Dark
A Cry in the Dark is a 1988 Australian drama film, also known as Evil Angels, that dramatizes the true story of Lindy Chamberlain, whose baby’s disappearance at Uluru led to one of Australia’s most infamous legal cases.
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D.
The Town
The Town is a 1957 novel by William Faulkner, part of his Snopes trilogy, that explores the rise of the Snopes family and the changing social fabric of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
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E.
The Town
The Town is a 2010 crime thriller film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, centered on a crew of Boston bank robbers and the personal and moral conflicts that arise after one of them falls for a former hostage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: A Town Like Alice Description of subject: A Town Like Alice is a 1956 British film adaptation of Nevil Shute’s novel, depicting a woman’s harrowing experiences as a prisoner of war in Malaya during World War II and her later efforts to rebuild lives in the Australian outback.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch
linked to: A Town Like Alice
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subject linked to:
Matyas Seiber
linked to: A Town Like Alice
linked to: A Town Like Alice
linked to: A Town Like Alice
linked to: A Town Like Alice