The Circus (1928 film short, not the Chaplin feature)
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The Circus is a 1928 comedy short film featuring Australian-born silent film comedian Clyde Cook in a slapstick story set around a traveling circus.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Circus (1928 film short, not the Chaplin feature) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6702608 — 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 Circus (1928 film short, not the Chaplin feature) Context triple: [Clyde Cook, appearedIn, The Circus (1928 film short, not the Chaplin feature)]
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A.
St. Louis Blues (1929 short film)
St. Louis Blues (1929 short film) is a musical short starring blues legend Bessie Smith, notable for its early cinematic portrayal of classic blues performance.
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B.
Circus
"Circus" is a 2008 pop album by American singer Britney Spears, featuring hits like "Womanizer" and marking a high-profile return to the spotlight.
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C.
Circus
Circus is the informal name for the British intelligence service in John le Carré’s spy novels, serving as the workplace and operational hub of master spy George Smiley.
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D.
Circus
Circus is a 1993 studio album by the Australian band Not Drowning, Waving, known for its atmospheric blend of rock, ambient, and world music influences.
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E.
Circus
"Circus" is a 1936 Soviet musical comedy film directed by Grigori Aleksandrov, celebrated for its satirical take on racism and its iconic performance by Lyubov Orlova.
- 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 Circus (1928 film short, not the Chaplin feature) Target entity description: The Circus is a 1928 comedy short film featuring Australian-born silent film comedian Clyde Cook in a slapstick story set around a traveling circus.
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A.
St. Louis Blues (1929 short film)
St. Louis Blues (1929 short film) is a musical short starring blues legend Bessie Smith, notable for its early cinematic portrayal of classic blues performance.
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B.
Circus
"Circus" is a 2008 pop album by American singer Britney Spears, featuring hits like "Womanizer" and marking a high-profile return to the spotlight.
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C.
Circus
Circus is the informal name for the British intelligence service in John le Carré’s spy novels, serving as the workplace and operational hub of master spy George Smiley.
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D.
Circus
Circus is a 1993 studio album by the Australian band Not Drowning, Waving, known for its atmospheric blend of rock, ambient, and world music influences.
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E.
Circus
"Circus" is a 1936 Soviet musical comedy film directed by Grigori Aleksandrov, celebrated for its satirical take on racism and its iconic performance by Lyubov Orlova.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film comedian ⓘ short film ⓘ slapstick film ⓘ |
| castMember | Clyde Cook ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| featureActor | Clyde Cook ⓘ |
| filmFormat | silent ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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slapstick ⓘ |
| hasCountryOfLeadActorBirth | Australia ⓘ |
| hasLeadPerformer | Clyde Cook ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Circus ⓘ |
| language | Silent (English intertitles) ⓘ |
| productionYear | 1928 ⓘ |
| setting | traveling circus ⓘ |
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 Circus (1928 film short, not the Chaplin feature) Description of subject: The Circus is a 1928 comedy short film featuring Australian-born silent film comedian Clyde Cook in a slapstick story set around a traveling circus.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.