Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Going My Way"
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Going My Way" is the Oscar that honored Barry Fitzgerald’s acclaimed performance as Father Fitzgibbon in the 1944 musical drama film "Going My Way."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Academy Award for Best Actor for "Going My Way" | 1 |
| Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Going My Way" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13393479 — 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: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Going My Way" Context triple: [Barry Fitzgerald, awardReceived, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Going My Way"]
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A.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is the Oscar nomination recognizing Cecil Kellaway's acclaimed supporting performance in the 1967 interracial romance drama film.
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B.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor: Miracle on 34th Street
"Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor: Miracle on 34th Street" refers to the Oscar-winning supporting performance by Edmund Gwenn in the classic 1947 Christmas film "Miracle on 34th Street," in which he famously portrayed Kris Kringle.
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C.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" is the Oscar nomination recognizing Harry Carey's acclaimed supporting performance in Frank Capra's 1939 political drama.
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D.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 'Come and Get It'
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Come and Get It" is the Oscar that recognized Walter Brennan’s acclaimed supporting performance in the 1936 film adaptation of Edna Ferber’s novel.
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E.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Farmer’s Daughter"
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Farmer’s Daughter" is an Oscar nomination recognizing a standout supporting performance in the 1947 political comedy-drama film "The Farmer’s Daughter."
- 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: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Going My Way" Target entity description: The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Going My Way" is the Oscar that honored Barry Fitzgerald’s acclaimed performance as Father Fitzgibbon in the 1944 musical drama film "Going My Way."
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A.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is the Oscar nomination recognizing Cecil Kellaway's acclaimed supporting performance in the 1967 interracial romance drama film.
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B.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor: Miracle on 34th Street
"Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor: Miracle on 34th Street" refers to the Oscar-winning supporting performance by Edmund Gwenn in the classic 1947 Christmas film "Miracle on 34th Street," in which he famously portrayed Kris Kringle.
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C.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" is the Oscar nomination recognizing Harry Carey's acclaimed supporting performance in Frank Capra's 1939 political drama.
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D.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 'Come and Get It'
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Come and Get It" is the Oscar that recognized Walter Brennan’s acclaimed supporting performance in the 1936 film adaptation of Edna Ferber’s novel.
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E.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Farmer’s Daughter"
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Farmer’s Daughter" is an Oscar nomination recognizing a standout supporting performance in the 1947 political comedy-drama film "The Farmer’s Daughter."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Academy Award
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film award ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for "Going My Way" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedCharacter | Father Fitzgibbon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedEvent | Academy Awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedFilm | Going My Way NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedPerson | Barry Fitzgerald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardCategory | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardForYearOfFilm | 1944 ⓘ |
| categoryOfArt | cinema ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| filmGenre | musical drama ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1944 ⓘ |
| honors | Barry Fitzgerald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorsFilm | Going My Way NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorsRole | Father Fitzgibbon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | film industry ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| medium | film acting ⓘ |
| notableAspect | honors Barry Fitzgerald’s acclaimed performance as Father Fitzgibbon ⓘ |
| partOf | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor winners list ⓘ |
| performanceType | supporting role ⓘ |
| presentedBy | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ⓘ |
| presentedFor | Best Supporting Actor performance in "Going My Way" ⓘ |
| winner | Barry Fitzgerald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Going My Way" Description of subject: The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Going My Way" is the Oscar that honored Barry Fitzgerald’s acclaimed performance as Father Fitzgibbon in the 1944 musical drama film "Going My Way."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Academy Award for Best Actor for "Going My Way"