The Farmer Takes a Wife
E156680
The Farmer Takes a Wife is a 1934 romantic comedy play, later adapted into a film, about a canal boatman whose plans to settle down are complicated by love and changing times.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Farmer Takes a Wife canonical | 7 |
| The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935 film) | 3 |
| The Farmer Takes a Wife (1940 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1355781 — 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 Farmer Takes a Wife Context triple: [Albert Hackett, notableWork, The Farmer Takes a Wife]
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A.
The Farmer’s Daughter
The Farmer’s Daughter is a 1947 American romantic comedy film starring Loretta Young as a Swedish-American farm girl who becomes involved in politics.
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B.
The Farmer and the Cowman
"The Farmer and the Cowman" is a lively ensemble number from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *Oklahoma!* that humorously dramatizes the rivalry and eventual reconciliation between farmers and cowboys on the American frontier.
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C.
The Robber Bridegroom
The Robber Bridegroom is a dark Grimm Brothers fairy tale about a young woman who discovers her seemingly charming fiancé is actually a murderous bandit.
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D.
The Hired Hand
The Hired Hand is a 1971 revisionist Western film directed by and starring Peter Fonda, noted for its lyrical style and contemplative take on violence and masculinity.
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E.
The Lonedale Operator
The Lonedale Operator is a 1911 silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith, noted for its innovative cross-cutting and suspenseful storytelling in early cinema.
- 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 Farmer Takes a Wife Target entity description: The Farmer Takes a Wife is a 1934 romantic comedy play, later adapted into a film, about a canal boatman whose plans to settle down are complicated by love and changing times.
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A.
The Farmer’s Daughter
The Farmer’s Daughter is a 1947 American romantic comedy film starring Loretta Young as a Swedish-American farm girl who becomes involved in politics.
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B.
The Farmer and the Cowman
"The Farmer and the Cowman" is a lively ensemble number from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical *Oklahoma!* that humorously dramatizes the rivalry and eventual reconciliation between farmers and cowboys on the American frontier.
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C.
The Robber Bridegroom
The Robber Bridegroom is a dark Grimm Brothers fairy tale about a young woman who discovers her seemingly charming fiancé is actually a murderous bandit.
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D.
The Hired Hand
The Hired Hand is a 1971 revisionist Western film directed by and starring Peter Fonda, noted for its lyrical style and contemplative take on violence and masculinity.
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E.
The Lonedale Operator
The Lonedale Operator is a 1911 silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith, noted for its innovative cross-cutting and suspenseful storytelling in early cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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play ⓘ romantic comedy ⓘ romantic comedy film ⓘ stage work ⓘ |
| author | Walter D. Edmonds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Farmer Takes a Wife
self-linksurface differs
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novel Rome Haul ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
comedy
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comedy ⓘ romance ⓘ romance ⓘ romantic comedy ⓘ romantic comedy ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Farmer Takes a Wife
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935 film)
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| hasFilmAdaptation |
The Farmer Takes a Wife
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935 film)
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| mainCharacter |
Dan Harrow
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Dan Harrow ⓘ Molly Larkins ⓘ Molly Larkins ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
conflict between traditional canal life and progress
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plans to settle down complicated by love ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation |
New York
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surface form:
New York State
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| originalLanguage |
English
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English ⓘ |
| publicationDate |
1934
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1935 ⓘ |
| setting | Erie Canal ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
canal boatman
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changing times ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ rural life ⓘ |
| timePeriod | mid-19th 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: The Farmer Takes a Wife Description of subject: The Farmer Takes a Wife is a 1934 romantic comedy play, later adapted into a film, about a canal boatman whose plans to settle down are complicated by love and changing times.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935 film)
subject surface form:
The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935 film)
this entity surface form:
The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935 film)
this entity surface form:
The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935 film)
this entity surface form:
The Farmer Takes a Wife (1940 film)