Rain
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"Rain" is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film starring Walter Huston, based on W. Somerset Maugham’s short story about moral conflict and temptation in the South Seas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rain canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13514931 — 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: Rain Context triple: [Walter Huston, notableWork, Rain]
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Rain
Rain is a central character in Toni Morrison’s novel "God Help the Child," whose presence and experiences help explore themes of trauma, identity, and healing.
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Rain
Rain is a surname shared by various individuals, including those in the entertainment industry such as actress and writer Jeramie Rain.
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Rain
Rain is a form of precipitation in which liquid water droplets fall from clouds to the Earth's surface.
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Rain
"Rain" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Jessie Reyez, known for its emotive vocals and introspective lyrics.
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Rain
"Rain" is a 1966 Beatles song, noted for its innovative use of reversed tapes and studio effects that helped pioneer psychedelic rock.
- 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: Rain Target entity description: "Rain" is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film starring Walter Huston, based on W. Somerset Maugham’s short story about moral conflict and temptation in the South Seas.
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Rain
"Rain" is a 1921 short story by W. Somerset Maugham, renowned for its intense psychological drama set in the South Pacific and its exploration of morality, sexuality, and religious hypocrisy.
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Rain
"Rain" is a 2001 New Zealand drama film directed by Christine Jeffs, adapted from Kirsty Gunn’s novel about a young girl’s turbulent coming-of-age during a tense family holiday.
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Rain
"Rain" is an abstract, emotionally charged painting by British artist Howard Hodgkin, known for its vibrant colors and gestural brushwork evocative of weather and memory.
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Rain
Rain is a central character in Toni Morrison’s novel "God Help the Child," whose presence and experiences help explore themes of trauma, identity, and healing.
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Rain
Rain is the compassionate paint mare and love interest of the title stallion in the animated film "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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drama film ⓘ film ⓘ pre-Code film ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Rain (short story) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | W. Somerset Maugham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Rain (short story) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Oliver T. Marsh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Lewis Milestone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Ben Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Alfred Davidson
NERFINISHED
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Sadie Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ Sergeant Tim O’Hara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Joan Crawford’s performance as Sadie Thompson
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portrayal of sexual morality issues ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | pre-Code Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Lewis Milestone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Feature Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1932 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1932-10-18 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 94 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Luther Reed
NERFINISHED
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Maxwell Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
Pacific island
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South Seas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Beulah Bondi
NERFINISHED
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Blanche Friderici NERFINISHED ⓘ Guy Kibbee NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Crawford NERFINISHED ⓘ Kendall Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Matt Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Catlett NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Huston NERFINISHED ⓘ William Gargan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
moral conflict
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religious hypocrisy ⓘ temptation ⓘ |
| title | Rain 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: Rain Description of subject: "Rain" is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film starring Walter Huston, based on W. Somerset Maugham’s short story about moral conflict and temptation in the South Seas.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.