Le Million
E221893
Le Million is a 1931 French musical comedy film directed by René Clair, celebrated for its inventive use of sound and playful, surreal style.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Le Million canonical | 3 |
| Le Million (play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1980531 — 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: Le Million Context triple: [Annabella, notableWork, Le Million]
-
A.
L’Œuvre
L’Œuvre is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that portrays the struggles of an ambitious painter in Paris whose obsessive pursuit of artistic perfection leads to personal and professional ruin.
-
B.
Fifty Million Frenchmen
Fifty Million Frenchmen is a 1929 Broadway musical comedy with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, known for its witty songs and Parisian setting.
-
C.
Le Ventre de Paris
Le Ventre de Paris is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that vividly portrays life around Paris’s central market, Les Halles, while exploring themes of social conflict, hunger, and abundance.
-
D.
Le Siècle
Le Siècle was a prominent 19th-century French newspaper known for publishing major literary works and influencing public opinion in France.
-
E.
Au Bonheur des Dames
"Au Bonheur des Dames" is an 1883 novel by Émile Zola that portrays the rise of a Parisian department store and its transformative impact on commerce, urban life, and women's roles in society.
- 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: Le Million Target entity description: Le Million is a 1931 French musical comedy film directed by René Clair, celebrated for its inventive use of sound and playful, surreal style.
-
A.
L’Œuvre
L’Œuvre is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that portrays the struggles of an ambitious painter in Paris whose obsessive pursuit of artistic perfection leads to personal and professional ruin.
-
B.
Fifty Million Frenchmen
Fifty Million Frenchmen is a 1929 Broadway musical comedy with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, known for its witty songs and Parisian setting.
-
C.
Le Ventre de Paris
Le Ventre de Paris is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that vividly portrays life around Paris’s central market, Les Halles, while exploring themes of social conflict, hunger, and abundance.
-
D.
Le Siècle
Le Siècle was a prominent 19th-century French newspaper known for publishing major literary works and influencing public opinion in France.
-
E.
Au Bonheur des Dames
"Au Bonheur des Dames" is an 1883 novel by Émile Zola that portrays the rise of a Parisian department store and its transformative impact on commerce, urban life, and women's roles in society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French film
ⓘ
film ⓘ musical comedy film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Le Million
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Le Million (play)
|
| basedOnWorkAuthor |
Georges Berr
ⓘ
Marcel Guillemaud ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Georges Périnal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| dialogueLanguage | French ⓘ |
| director | René Clair ⓘ |
| distributor | Tobis Film ⓘ |
| editedBy | René Le Hénaff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | France ⓘ |
| genre |
musical comedy
ⓘ
romantic comedy ⓘ surrealist film ⓘ |
| hasChoreographyStyle | musical ensemble sequences ⓘ |
| hasFilmRating | generally positive critical reception ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
art and poverty
ⓘ
chance and fortune ⓘ love and jealousy ⓘ |
| includedInList | historically significant early sound films ⓘ |
| musicBy | Georges Auric ⓘ |
| narrativeStyle | farce ⓘ |
| notableFor |
inventive use of sound
ⓘ
playful visual style ⓘ surreal style ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOfMovement |
French poetic realism
ⓘ
surface form:
French poetic cinema
|
| plotSummary | A poor artist discovers he holds a winning lottery ticket that becomes lost in a jacket, leading to a frantic search across Paris. ⓘ |
| producer | Tobis Film ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Tobis Film ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1931 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1931 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 81 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Alexandre Arnoux
ⓘ
Georges Berr ⓘ René Clair ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Paris ⓘ |
| soundDesignStyle | music and effects synchronized with comic action ⓘ |
| soundFilm | true ⓘ |
| stars |
Annabella
ⓘ
Louis Allibert ⓘ Paul Ollivier ⓘ René Lefèvre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesFeature | early sound film techniques ⓘ |
| visualStyle | expressionistic sets and staging ⓘ |
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: Le Million Description of subject: Le Million is a 1931 French musical comedy film directed by René Clair, celebrated for its inventive use of sound and playful, surreal style.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Le Million (play)