Summer and Smoke
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Summer and Smoke is a 1948 play by Tennessee Williams that explores the tension between spiritual purity and physical desire in a small Mississippi town.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Summer and Smoke canonical | 15 |
| Summer and Smoke (1961 film) | 2 |
| Summer and Smoke (film) | 2 |
| Summer and Smoke (1948 play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2894327 — 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: Summer and Smoke Context triple: [Tennessee Williams, notableWork, Summer and Smoke]
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A.
The Good Earth
The Good Earth is a 1937 American film adaptation of Pearl S. Buck’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel about Chinese farmers struggling with poverty, tradition, and social change.
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B.
The Teahouse of the August Moon
The Teahouse of the August Moon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning Broadway comedy about post–World War II American occupation in Okinawa, later adapted into a successful film and musical.
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C.
A Lost Lady
A Lost Lady is a 1923 novel by Willa Cather that explores the decline of the American frontier aristocracy through the enigmatic figure of Marian Forrester.
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D.
The Painted Angel
The Painted Angel is a 1929 silent drama film starring popular 1920s screen actress Billie Dove.
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E.
Intruder in the Dust
Intruder in the Dust is a 1949 film adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel, notable as a socially conscious crime drama addressing racism in the American South.
- 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: Summer and Smoke Target entity description: Summer and Smoke is a 1948 play by Tennessee Williams that explores the tension between spiritual purity and physical desire in a small Mississippi town.
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A.
The Good Earth
The Good Earth is a 1937 American film adaptation of Pearl S. Buck’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel about Chinese farmers struggling with poverty, tradition, and social change.
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B.
The Teahouse of the August Moon
The Teahouse of the August Moon is a Pulitzer Prize–winning Broadway comedy about post–World War II American occupation in Okinawa, later adapted into a successful film and musical.
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C.
A Lost Lady
A Lost Lady is a 1923 novel by Willa Cather that explores the decline of the American frontier aristocracy through the enigmatic figure of Marian Forrester.
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D.
The Painted Angel
The Painted Angel is a 1929 silent drama film starring popular 1920s screen actress Billie Dove.
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E.
Intruder in the Dust
Intruder in the Dust is a 1949 film adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel, notable as a socially conscious crime drama addressing racism in the American South.
- 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: Summer and Smoke Description of subject: Summer and Smoke is a 1948 play by Tennessee Williams that explores the tension between spiritual purity and physical desire in a small Mississippi town.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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