The Living Desert
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The Living Desert is a 1953 Walt Disney nature documentary film that vividly portrays the wildlife and ecology of North American desert landscapes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Living Desert canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3338413 — 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 Living Desert Context triple: [James Algar, notableWork, The Living Desert]
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A.
Living Desert Zoo and Gardens State Park
Living Desert Zoo and Gardens State Park is a New Mexico state park that showcases the plants and animals of the Chihuahuan Desert through zoo exhibits, botanical gardens, and educational programs.
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B.
Desert Garden
Desert Garden is a specialized botanical area in San Diego’s Balboa Park featuring extensive collections of cacti and other arid-climate plants.
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C.
The Desert
"The Desert" is a luminous 19th-century landscape painting by American artist Sanford Robinson Gifford, exemplifying the Hudson River School’s atmospheric treatment of light and expansive natural vistas.
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D.
Desert Land
Desert Land is the arid, sand-themed second world in Super Mario Bros. 3, featuring pyramids, quicksand, and desert-dwelling enemies.
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E.
Deadly Desert
The Deadly Desert is a vast, impassable wasteland of lethal sands that isolates the magical Land of Oz from the surrounding world in L. Frank Baum’s Oz series.
- 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 Living Desert Target entity description: The Living Desert is a 1953 Walt Disney nature documentary film that vividly portrays the wildlife and ecology of North American desert landscapes.
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A.
Living Desert Zoo and Gardens State Park
Living Desert Zoo and Gardens State Park is a New Mexico state park that showcases the plants and animals of the Chihuahuan Desert through zoo exhibits, botanical gardens, and educational programs.
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B.
Desert Garden
Desert Garden is a specialized botanical area in San Diego’s Balboa Park featuring extensive collections of cacti and other arid-climate plants.
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C.
The Desert
"The Desert" is a luminous 19th-century landscape painting by American artist Sanford Robinson Gifford, exemplifying the Hudson River School’s atmospheric treatment of light and expansive natural vistas.
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D.
Desert Land
Desert Land is the arid, sand-themed second world in Super Mario Bros. 3, featuring pyramids, quicksand, and desert-dwelling enemies.
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E.
Deadly Desert
The Deadly Desert is a vast, impassable wasteland of lethal sands that isolates the magical Land of Oz from the surrounding world in L. Frank Baum’s Oz series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
documentary film
ⓘ
nature documentary ⓘ short documentary film ⓘ |
| academyAwardCategory | Best Documentary Feature ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature ⓘ |
| awardYear | 1954 ⓘ |
| basedOn | original documentary footage ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy |
N. Paul Kenworthy
ⓘ
Robert H. Crandall ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Technicolor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| depicts |
desert animals
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desert plants ⓘ survival adaptations in arid environments ⓘ |
| director | James Algar ⓘ |
| distributedIn |
Europe
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North America ⓘ |
| distributor |
Buena Vista Distribution
ⓘ
linked to:
Buena Vista Pictures
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| editedBy | Norman R. Palmer ⓘ |
| filmingTechnique |
macro photography
ⓘ
time-lapse photography ⓘ |
| genre |
nature documentary
ⓘ
wildlife film ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
16mm educational film prints
ⓘ
theatrical film ⓘ |
| hasSound | monophonic optical soundtrack ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
adaptation and survival
ⓘ
relationship between animals and harsh desert environment ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| motionPictureRating | G ⓘ |
| musicBy | Paul J. Smith ⓘ |
| narrator | Winston Hibler ⓘ |
| notableFor |
pioneering use of close-up wildlife photography in deserts
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popularizing nature documentaries in mainstream cinema ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise |
Disney True-Life Adventures films
ⓘ
linked to:
True-Life Adventures series
|
| partOfSeries |
True-Life Adventures
ⓘ
linked to:
True-Life Adventures series
|
| producer | Walt Disney ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Walt Disney Productions ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1953-11-10 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1953 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 69 ⓘ |
| setting | North American deserts ⓘ |
| subject |
North American desert wildlife
ⓘ
desert ecology ⓘ |
| targetAudience | family ⓘ |
| title | The Living Desert ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: The Living Desert Description of subject: The Living Desert is a 1953 Walt Disney nature documentary film that vividly portrays the wildlife and ecology of North American desert landscapes.
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