The Tempest (1921 film)
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The Tempest (1921 film) is a British silent drama adaptation of Shakespeare's play, featuring Basil Sydney in a leading role.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Tempest (1921 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8156606 — 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 Tempest (1921 film) Context triple: [Basil Sydney, notableWork, The Tempest (1921 film)]
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A.
Tempest (1928 film)
Tempest (1928 film) is a silent historical drama set during the Russian Revolution, renowned for its striking production design and visual style.
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B.
The Tempest (2010 film)
The Tempest (2010 film) is a visually stylized adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, directed by Julie Taymor and notable for casting Helen Mirren as a gender-swapped Prospera.
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C.
Moby Dick (1930 film)
Moby Dick (1930 film) is a pre-Code adventure drama adaptation of Herman Melville’s novel, starring John Barrymore as the obsessed whaling captain.
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D.
Tempest
Tempest is a 2012 studio album by Bob Dylan, noted for its dark, narrative-driven songs and often regarded as one of his strongest late-career works.
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E.
The Tempest
The Tempest is a late Shakespearean play that blends shipwreck-driven adventure with themes of magic, power, and reconciliation on a remote island.
- 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 Tempest (1921 film) Target entity description: The Tempest (1921 film) is a British silent drama adaptation of Shakespeare's play, featuring Basil Sydney in a leading role.
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A.
Tempest (1928 film)
Tempest (1928 film) is a silent historical drama set during the Russian Revolution, renowned for its striking production design and visual style.
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B.
The Tempest (2010 film)
The Tempest (2010 film) is a visually stylized adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, directed by Julie Taymor and notable for casting Helen Mirren as a gender-swapped Prospera.
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C.
Moby Dick (1930 film)
Moby Dick (1930 film) is a pre-Code adventure drama adaptation of Herman Melville’s novel, starring John Barrymore as the obsessed whaling captain.
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D.
Tempest
Tempest is a 2012 studio album by Bob Dylan, noted for its dark, narrative-driven songs and often regarded as one of his strongest late-career works.
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E.
The Tempest
The Tempest is a late Shakespearean play that blends shipwreck-driven adventure with themes of magic, power, and reconciliation on a remote island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Shakespeare play ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Tempest ⓘ |
| basedOnGenre | stage play ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | 1920s British cinema ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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silent film ⓘ |
| hasCastMember | Basil Sydney ⓘ |
| hasSourceMaterial | Shakespearean drama ⓘ |
| isAdaptation | true ⓘ |
| language | silent ⓘ |
| leadActor | Basil Sydney ⓘ |
| medium | silent cinema ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a silent adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest ⓘ |
| originalWorkLanguage | English ⓘ |
| productionType | feature film ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1921 ⓘ |
| title | The Tempest ⓘ |
| workType | film adaptation ⓘ |
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 Tempest (1921 film) Description of subject: The Tempest (1921 film) is a British silent drama adaptation of Shakespeare's play, featuring Basil Sydney in a leading role.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.