The Immigrant

E147985

The Immigrant is a 1917 silent comedy short film written, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin as his iconic Tramp character, depicting his humorous and poignant experiences as an immigrant arriving in America.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
The Immigrant canonical 6

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American film
comedy film
silent short film
castMember Albert Austin
Charlie Chaplin
Edna Purviance
Eric Campbell
Henry Bergman
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Charlie Chaplin
distributor Mutual Film Corporation
surface form: Mutual Film
featureCharacter The Tramp
featuresCharacter Artist
Immigrant woman
Waiter
follows Easy Street
format Black-and-white
genre Comedy
Silent film
hasBlackfaceContent No
hasCriticalReception Widely acclaimed as one of Chaplin's best short films
hasFilmFormat 2 reels
hasFilmTechnique Emotions
surface form: Pathos

Physical comedy
Slapstick
hasSetting New York City
Transatlantic ship
includedIn Lists of greatest short films
language Silent
leadActor Charlie Chaplin
leadActress Edna Purviance
musicComposerForReissue Charlie Chaplin
notableScene Dining room sequence in restaurant
Immigrants lined up at immigration control
originalMedium 35 mm film
partOf Charlie Chaplin Mutual period
portrays Class differences in early 20th-century America
Experiences of immigrants arriving in America
precedes The Adventurer
productionCompany Lone Star Corporation
releaseYear 1917
runtimeMinutes 25
star Charlie Chaplin
theme Immigration to the United States
Poverty
Romance
Social satire
writer Charlie Chaplin

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: The Immigrant
Description of subject: The Immigrant is a 1917 silent comedy short film written, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin as his iconic Tramp character, depicting his humorous and poignant experiences as an immigrant arriving in America.

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

The Tramp notableWork The Immigrant
Leo White notableWork The Immigrant
Lee family of Virginia alsoKnownAs The Immigrant
subject surface form: Richard Lee I
Henry Bergman notableWork The Immigrant
Henry Bergman workedOn The Immigrant
Charlotte Mineau notable work The Immigrant