The Whole Town’s Talking
E191715
The Whole Town’s Talking is a 1935 screwball comedy film directed by John Ford, best known for its dual-role performance by Edward G. Robinson as both a meek clerk and a notorious gangster.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Whole Town’s Talking canonical | 3 |
| The Whole Town's Talking | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1687340 — 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 Whole Town’s Talking Context triple: [Robert Riskin, notableWork, The Whole Town’s Talking]
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A.
The Whole Town’s Talking
The Whole Town’s Talking is a humorous and heartwarming novel by Fannie Flagg that follows the intertwined lives and afterlives of residents in a small Missouri town across generations.
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B.
All Around the Town
All Around the Town is a psychological suspense novel by Mary Higgins Clark that follows a young woman accused of murdering her professor while grappling with traumatic memories and multiple personalities.
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C.
Wonderful Town
Wonderful Town is a 1953 Broadway musical with music by Leonard Bernstein that follows two sisters pursuing their dreams in New York City's Greenwich Village.
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D.
Spring in Town
"Spring in Town" is a 1941 painting by American artist Grant Wood that idealizes rural Midwestern life through a meticulously detailed, nostalgic small-town scene.
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E.
Gossip Folks
"Gossip Folks" is a hip hop single by Missy Elliott featuring Ludacris, known for its playful confrontation of rumors and its distinctive, sample-driven production.
- 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 Whole Town’s Talking Target entity description: The Whole Town’s Talking is a 1935 screwball comedy film directed by John Ford, best known for its dual-role performance by Edward G. Robinson as both a meek clerk and a notorious gangster.
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A.
The Whole Town’s Talking
The Whole Town’s Talking is a humorous and heartwarming novel by Fannie Flagg that follows the intertwined lives and afterlives of residents in a small Missouri town across generations.
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B.
All Around the Town
All Around the Town is a psychological suspense novel by Mary Higgins Clark that follows a young woman accused of murdering her professor while grappling with traumatic memories and multiple personalities.
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C.
Wonderful Town
Wonderful Town is a 1953 Broadway musical with music by Leonard Bernstein that follows two sisters pursuing their dreams in New York City's Greenwich Village.
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D.
Spring in Town
"Spring in Town" is a 1941 painting by American artist Grant Wood that idealizes rural Midwestern life through a meticulously detailed, nostalgic small-town scene.
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E.
Gossip Folks
"Gossip Folks" is a hip hop single by Missy Elliott featuring Ludacris, known for its playful confrontation of rumors and its distinctive, sample-driven production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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 Whole Town’s Talking Description of subject: The Whole Town’s Talking is a 1935 screwball comedy film directed by John Ford, best known for its dual-role performance by Edward G. Robinson as both a meek clerk and a notorious gangster.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Whole Town's Talking
this entity surface form:
The Whole Town's Talking