The Taming of the Shrew (1929 film)
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The Taming of the Shrew (1929 film) is an early sound-era adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy, notable for starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Taming of the Shrew (1929 film) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5182948 — 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: The Taming of the Shrew (1929 film) Context triple: [The Taming of the Shrew, hasAdaptation, The Taming of the Shrew (1929 film)]
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The Battle of the Sexes (1928 film)
The Battle of the Sexes (1928 film) is a silent comedy-drama directed by D. W. Griffith that explores marital infidelity and gender conflict in late-1920s American society.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film) is a lavish Warner Bros. adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, renowned for its imaginative fantasy visuals, large ensemble cast, and multiple Academy Awards.
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C.
Coquette (1929 film)
Coquette (1929 film) is a 1929 American drama and Mary Pickford’s first talking picture, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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D.
1952 film Limelight
The 1952 film "Limelight" is a comedy-drama written, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, focusing on an aging clown who mentors a young ballerina in London.
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E.
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.
- 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 Taming of the Shrew (1929 film) Target entity description: The Taming of the Shrew (1929 film) is an early sound-era adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy, notable for starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.
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A.
The Battle of the Sexes (1928 film)
The Battle of the Sexes (1928 film) is a silent comedy-drama directed by D. W. Griffith that explores marital infidelity and gender conflict in late-1920s American society.
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B.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935 film) is a lavish Warner Bros. adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, renowned for its imaginative fantasy visuals, large ensemble cast, and multiple Academy Awards.
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C.
Coquette (1929 film)
Coquette (1929 film) is a 1929 American drama and Mary Pickford’s first talking picture, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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D.
1952 film Limelight
The 1952 film "Limelight" is a comedy-drama written, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin, focusing on an aging clown who mentors a young ballerina in London.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
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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 Taming of the Shrew (1929 film) Description of subject: The Taming of the Shrew (1929 film) is an early sound-era adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy, notable for starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.