The Roaring Twenties
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The Roaring Twenties is a 1939 American crime drama film directed by Raoul Walsh that chronicles the rise and fall of Prohibition-era gangsters.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Roaring Twenties canonical | 18 |
| Twentieth Century | 2 |
| Années folles | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T890795 — 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 Roaring Twenties Context triple: [Raoul Walsh, notableWork, The Roaring Twenties]
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Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties was a decade of economic prosperity, cultural dynamism, and social change in the 1920s, marked by jazz music, flapper culture, and rapid industrial growth, particularly in the United States and Western Europe.
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Prohibition era in the United States
The Prohibition era in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933, which fueled organized crime, speakeasies, and significant social and political conflict.
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Interwar period
The Interwar period was the turbulent era between World War I and World War II marked by political upheaval, economic crises, and the rise of totalitarian regimes across Europe and beyond.
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Hollywood Golden Age
The Hollywood Golden Age was a period from the late 1920s to the early 1960s when the American studio system dominated film production and produced many of cinema’s most iconic stars and movies.
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Lost Generation
The Lost Generation was a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and became known for their disillusioned, expatriate perspectives and influential modernist works in the 1920s.
- 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 Roaring Twenties Target entity description: The Roaring Twenties is a 1939 American crime drama film directed by Raoul Walsh that chronicles the rise and fall of Prohibition-era gangsters.
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A.
Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties was a decade of economic prosperity, cultural dynamism, and social change in the 1920s, marked by jazz music, flapper culture, and rapid industrial growth, particularly in the United States and Western Europe.
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B.
Prohibition era in the United States
The Prohibition era in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933, which fueled organized crime, speakeasies, and significant social and political conflict.
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C.
Interwar period
The Interwar period was the turbulent era between World War I and World War II marked by political upheaval, economic crises, and the rise of totalitarian regimes across Europe and beyond.
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D.
Hollywood Golden Age
The Hollywood Golden Age was a period from the late 1920s to the early 1960s when the American studio system dominated film production and produced many of cinema’s most iconic stars and movies.
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E.
Lost Generation
The Lost Generation was a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and became known for their disillusioned, expatriate perspectives and influential modernist works in the 1920s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Roaring Twenties Description of subject: The Roaring Twenties is a 1939 American crime drama film directed by Raoul Walsh that chronicles the rise and fall of Prohibition-era gangsters.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Twentieth Century
subject surface form:
Raoul Walsh
subject surface form:
Raoul Walsh
this entity surface form:
Années folles