Way Down East
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Way Down East is a 1920 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, renowned for its emotional storytelling and groundbreaking ice floe rescue sequence.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Way Down East canonical | 33 |
| Way Down East (1920 film) | 2 |
| Way Down East (1897 play) | 1 |
| Way Down East (1935 film) | 1 |
| Way Down East (screenwriters and director D. W. Griffith) | 1 |
| Way Down East (stage melodrama) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T450224 — 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: Way Down East Context triple: [D. W. Griffith, notableWork, Way Down East]
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The Grass Harp
The Grass Harp is a 1951 novella by Truman Capote that tells a lyrical, bittersweet coming-of-age story about misfits who retreat to a treehouse, blending Southern Gothic atmosphere with themes of individuality and belonging.
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B.
The Lady of the Aroostook
The Lady of the Aroostook is an 1879 novel by American author William Dean Howells that follows a young New England woman’s transatlantic voyage and explores themes of social class, romance, and cultural contrast.
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C.
After the Dance
"After the Dance" is a 1939 stage play by British dramatist Terence Rattigan that explores the disillusionment and emotional fallout among the hedonistic "bright young things" of interwar London.
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D.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
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E.
Shirley
Shirley is an English surname of Old English origin that has also become a common given name.
- 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: Way Down East Target entity description: Way Down East is a 1920 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, renowned for its emotional storytelling and groundbreaking ice floe rescue sequence.
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A.
The Grass Harp
The Grass Harp is a 1951 novella by Truman Capote that tells a lyrical, bittersweet coming-of-age story about misfits who retreat to a treehouse, blending Southern Gothic atmosphere with themes of individuality and belonging.
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B.
The Lady of the Aroostook
The Lady of the Aroostook is an 1879 novel by American author William Dean Howells that follows a young New England woman’s transatlantic voyage and explores themes of social class, romance, and cultural contrast.
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C.
After the Dance
"After the Dance" is a 1939 stage play by British dramatist Terence Rattigan that explores the disillusionment and emotional fallout among the hedonistic "bright young things" of interwar London.
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D.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
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E.
Shirley
Shirley is the given name of Shirley Ann Jackson, a prominent American physicist and trailblazing academic leader.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Way Down East Description of subject: Way Down East is a 1920 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, renowned for its emotional storytelling and groundbreaking ice floe rescue sequence.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Lottie Blair Parker
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subject linked to:
Lottie Blair Parker
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Barthelmess
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Patrick Fitzgerald Ryan