Magnificent Obsession
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Magnificent Obsession is a 1954 romantic drama film, based on Lloyd C. Douglas’s novel, known for its themes of redemption and self-sacrifice and for earning Jane Wyman an Academy Award nomination.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Magnificent Obsession canonical | 17 |
| Magnificent Obsession (1954 film) | 7 |
| Magnificent Obsession (novel) | 4 |
| Magnificent Obsession (1935 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T639448 — 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: Magnificent Obsession Context triple: [Jane Wyman, notableWork, Magnificent Obsession]
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The Tender Passion
The Tender Passion is a historical study by cultural historian Peter Gay that explores the evolution of romantic love and courtship in Western society.
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An American Lady
"An American Lady" is a written work associated with Jennie Jerome, better known as Lady Randolph Churchill, reflecting her experiences and perspective as a prominent American-born figure in British high society.
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Of Love and Other Demons
Of Love and Other Demons is a short novel by Gabriel García Márquez that blends magical realism and historical fiction to explore forbidden love, superstition, and colonial power in 18th-century Latin America.
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The Lady of Pleasure
The Lady of Pleasure is a Caroline-era comedy play by James Shirley that satirizes the excesses and moral corruption of the English aristocracy.
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El Deseo
El Deseo is a Spanish film production company founded by Pedro Almodóvar and his brother Agustín, known for producing many of Almodóvar’s acclaimed movies.
- 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: Magnificent Obsession Target entity description: Magnificent Obsession is a 1954 romantic drama film, based on Lloyd C. Douglas’s novel, known for its themes of redemption and self-sacrifice and for earning Jane Wyman an Academy Award nomination.
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A.
The Tender Passion
The Tender Passion is a historical study by cultural historian Peter Gay that explores the evolution of romantic love and courtship in Western society.
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B.
An American Lady
"An American Lady" is a written work associated with Jennie Jerome, better known as Lady Randolph Churchill, reflecting her experiences and perspective as a prominent American-born figure in British high society.
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C.
Of Love and Other Demons
Of Love and Other Demons is a short novel by Gabriel García Márquez that blends magical realism and historical fiction to explore forbidden love, superstition, and colonial power in 18th-century Latin America.
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D.
The Lady of Pleasure
The Lady of Pleasure is a Caroline-era comedy play by James Shirley that satirizes the excesses and moral corruption of the English aristocracy.
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E.
El Deseo
El Deseo is a Spanish film production company founded by Pedro Almodóvar and his brother Agustín, known for producing many of Almodóvar’s acclaimed movies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Magnificent Obsession Description of subject: Magnificent Obsession is a 1954 romantic drama film, based on Lloyd C. Douglas’s novel, known for its themes of redemption and self-sacrifice and for earning Jane Wyman an Academy Award nomination.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Magnificent Obsession
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Magnificent Obsession
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Jane Fulks
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Jane Wyman (multiple marriages and divorces)
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Robert Talbot – Rock Hudson
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Nancy Ashford in Magnificent Obsession
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Nancy Ashford in Magnificent Obsession
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Nancy Ashford in Magnificent Obsession
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