Stella Dallas
E145690
Stella Dallas is a 1925 novel by Olive Higgins Prouty, best known through its popular film adaptations about a self-sacrificing mother striving to secure a better life for her daughter.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stella Dallas canonical | 12 |
| Stella Dallas (1925 film) | 3 |
| Stella Dallas (1937 film) | 2 |
| Stella Dallas (radio series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1287849 — 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: Stella Dallas Context triple: [Belle Bennett, notableWork, Stella Dallas]
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A.
Mildred Pierce
Mildred Pierce is a 2011 HBO miniseries adaptation of James M. Cain’s novel, starring Kate Winslet as a struggling single mother during the Great Depression.
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B.
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1942 Orson Welles film adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s novel, chronicling the decline of a wealthy Midwestern family amid the rise of industrialization.
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C.
Splendor in the Grass
Splendor in the Grass is a 1961 American romantic drama film starring Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty that explores repressed sexuality, emotional breakdown, and societal expectations in 1920s Kansas.
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D.
National Velvet
National Velvet is a classic 1944 family sports drama film about a young girl and her horse competing in the Grand National steeplechase.
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E.
A Letter to Three Wives
A Letter to Three Wives is a 1949 American drama film that intertwines the stories of three women who each fear their husband has run off with the same mutual friend.
- 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: Stella Dallas Target entity description: Stella Dallas is a 1925 novel by Olive Higgins Prouty, best known through its popular film adaptations about a self-sacrificing mother striving to secure a better life for her daughter.
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A.
Mildred Pierce
Mildred Pierce is a 2011 HBO miniseries adaptation of James M. Cain’s novel, starring Kate Winslet as a struggling single mother during the Great Depression.
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B.
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1942 Orson Welles film adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s novel, chronicling the decline of a wealthy Midwestern family amid the rise of industrialization.
-
C.
Splendor in the Grass
Splendor in the Grass is a 1961 American romantic drama film starring Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty that explores repressed sexuality, emotional breakdown, and societal expectations in 1920s Kansas.
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D.
National Velvet
National Velvet is a classic 1944 family sports drama film about a young girl and her horse competing in the Grand National steeplechase.
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E.
A Letter to Three Wives
A Letter to Three Wives is a 1949 American drama film that intertwines the stories of three women who each fear their husband has run off with the same mutual friend.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
Stella Dallas
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Stella Dallas (1925 film)
Stella Dallas self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Stella Dallas (1937 film)
Stella Dallas (1990s television film) ⓘ Stella Dallas self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Stella Dallas (radio series)
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| author | Olive Higgins Prouty ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
domestic fiction
ⓘ
drama ⓘ novel of manners ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationType |
radio serial
ⓘ
silent film ⓘ sound film ⓘ television film ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
family relationships
ⓘ
gender roles ⓘ social aspiration ⓘ |
| literaryMovement |
Realism
ⓘ
surface form:
American realism
|
| mainCharacter |
Laurel Dallas
ⓘ
Stella Dallas self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influence on American melodrama
ⓘ
portrayal of a self‑sacrificing mother ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1925 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Houghton Mifflin
ⓘ
surface form:
Houghton Mifflin Company
|
| setting | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| theme |
class mobility
ⓘ
motherhood ⓘ mother–daughter relationship ⓘ self‑sacrifice ⓘ social class ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory | early 20th century ⓘ |
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: Stella Dallas Description of subject: Stella Dallas is a 1925 novel by Olive Higgins Prouty, best known through its popular film adaptations about a self-sacrificing mother striving to secure a better life for her daughter.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Stella Dallas (1925 film)
this entity surface form:
Stella Dallas (1925 film)
this entity surface form:
Stella Dallas (1937 film)
this entity surface form:
Stella Dallas (radio series)
this entity surface form:
Stella Dallas (1937 film)
this entity surface form:
Stella Dallas (1925 film)
subject surface form:
King Vidor