The Chaser (1928)
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The Chaser (1928) is a silent comedy film best known for featuring Australian-born comic actor Clyde Cook in a leading role.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Chaser (1928) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6702613 — 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 Chaser (1928) Context triple: [Clyde Cook, appearedIn, The Chaser (1928)]
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A.
Smilin’ Through (1932)
Smilin’ Through (1932) is a romantic drama film from Hollywood’s early sound era, best known as a prestige MGM production featuring themes of love, loss, and spiritual reunion.
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B.
The Chaplin Revue
The Chaplin Revue is a 1959 compilation film in which Charlie Chaplin re-edited and scored several of his silent-era shorts for re-release with added sound and narration.
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C.
The Crowd Roars (1928)
The Crowd Roars (1928) is a silent drama film directed by King Vidor, known for its intense depiction of auto racing and the personal conflicts surrounding a star driver.
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D.
The Actress
The Actress is a 1953 American comedy-drama film, directed by George Cukor and based on Ruth Gordon’s autobiographical play, depicting a young woman’s determination to pursue a stage career against her father’s wishes.
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E.
Passing (1929)
Passing (1929) is a Harlem Renaissance novel by Nella Larsen that explores racial identity, colorism, and the complexities of "passing" for white in 1920s America.
- 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 Chaser (1928) Target entity description: The Chaser (1928) is a silent comedy film best known for featuring Australian-born comic actor Clyde Cook in a leading role.
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A.
Smilin’ Through (1932)
Smilin’ Through (1932) is a romantic drama film from Hollywood’s early sound era, best known as a prestige MGM production featuring themes of love, loss, and spiritual reunion.
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B.
The Chaplin Revue
The Chaplin Revue is a 1959 compilation film in which Charlie Chaplin re-edited and scored several of his silent-era shorts for re-release with added sound and narration.
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C.
The Crowd Roars (1928)
The Crowd Roars (1928) is a silent drama film directed by King Vidor, known for its intense depiction of auto racing and the personal conflicts surrounding a star driver.
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D.
The Actress
The Actress is a 1953 American comedy-drama film, directed by George Cukor and based on Ruth Gordon’s autobiographical play, depicting a young woman’s determination to pursue a stage career against her father’s wishes.
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E.
Passing (1929)
Passing (1929) is a Harlem Renaissance novel by Nella Larsen that explores racial identity, colorism, and the complexities of "passing" for white in 1920s America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | silent film ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director | Stan Laurel ⓘ |
| era | late silent era ⓘ |
| featuresActor | Clyde Cook ⓘ |
| featuresGenre | slapstick comedy ⓘ |
| filmType | short-to-medium length comedy ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
silent film ⓘ |
| hasFormat | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| hasIntertitlesLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Silent (English intertitles) ⓘ |
| hasMedium | motion picture ⓘ |
| hasOriginalReleaseFormat | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Chaser ⓘ |
| industry | American film industry ⓘ |
| notableFor | featuring Australian-born comic actor Clyde Cook in a leading role ⓘ |
| period | pre-sound era Hollywood ⓘ |
| producer | Hal Roach ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Hal Roach Studios ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1928 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | H. M. Walker ⓘ |
| starNationality | Australian-born lead actor ⓘ |
| starring | Clyde Cook ⓘ |
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 Chaser (1928) Description of subject: The Chaser (1928) is a silent comedy film best known for featuring Australian-born comic actor Clyde Cook in a leading role.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.