The Sex Life of the Polyp
E483567
The Sex Life of the Polyp is a 1928 short comedy film featuring humorist Robert Benchley delivering a satirical lecture about marine biology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Sex Life of the Polyp canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4950372 — 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 Sex Life of the Polyp Context triple: [Robert Benchley, performedIn, The Sex Life of the Polyp]
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A.
The Mating Season
The Mating Season is a 1951 American comedy film best known for Thelma Ritter’s acclaimed, Oscar-nominated performance as a working-class mother who complicates her son’s marriage.
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B.
Telegony
Telegony is a lost ancient Greek epic poem, traditionally attributed to Eugammon of Cyrene, that continued the story of Odysseus and his son Telemachus after the events of Homer’s Odyssey.
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C.
The Organism
"The Organism" is a seminal 1939 work by neurologist Kurt Goldstein that presents a holistic theory of human biology and psychology, emphasizing the organism as an integrated, self-organizing whole.
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D.
Original of the Species
"Original of the Species" is a song by the Irish rock band U2 from their 2004 album *How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb*, noted for its melodic, anthemic style and reflective lyrics.
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E.
Parasitaster, or The Fawn
Parasitaster, or The Fawn is a satirical Jacobean stage comedy by English playwright John Marston, known for its sharp political and courtly intrigue.
- 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 Sex Life of the Polyp Target entity description: The Sex Life of the Polyp is a 1928 short comedy film featuring humorist Robert Benchley delivering a satirical lecture about marine biology.
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A.
The Mating Season
The Mating Season is a 1951 American comedy film best known for Thelma Ritter’s acclaimed, Oscar-nominated performance as a working-class mother who complicates her son’s marriage.
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B.
Telegony
Telegony is a lost ancient Greek epic poem, traditionally attributed to Eugammon of Cyrene, that continued the story of Odysseus and his son Telemachus after the events of Homer’s Odyssey.
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C.
The Organism
"The Organism" is a seminal 1939 work by neurologist Kurt Goldstein that presents a holistic theory of human biology and psychology, emphasizing the organism as an integrated, self-organizing whole.
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D.
Original of the Species
"Original of the Species" is a song by the Irish rock band U2 from their 2004 album *How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb*, noted for its melodic, anthemic style and reflective lyrics.
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E.
Parasitaster, or The Fawn
Parasitaster, or The Fawn is a satirical Jacobean stage comedy by English playwright John Marston, known for its sharp political and courtly intrigue.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
ⓘ
comedy film ⓘ short film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Robert Benchley stage monologue ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| features | Robert Benchley ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
satire ⓘ |
| hasHumorStyle | satirical lecture ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | lecturer played by Robert Benchley ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | comic lecture ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays | fictional scientific lecture ⓘ |
| productionEra | late silent era ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1928 ⓘ |
| runningTime | short ⓘ |
| starred | Robert Benchley ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | marine biology ⓘ |
| title | The Sex Life of the Polyp ⓘ |
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 Sex Life of the Polyp Description of subject: The Sex Life of the Polyp is a 1928 short comedy film featuring humorist Robert Benchley delivering a satirical lecture about marine biology.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.