The Big Idea (1920 film)
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The Big Idea (1920 film) is a silent comedy short starring Australian-born comedian Snub Pollard, known for its slapstick humor and inventive gags.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Big Idea (1920 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2426270 — 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 Big Idea (1920 film) Context triple: [Snub Pollard, notableWork, The Big Idea (1920 film)]
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A.
The Very Idea (1920 film)
The Very Idea (1920 film) is a silent American comedy feature from the early 20th century, now considered a lost film, that explored contemporary social themes with a light, humorous touch.
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B.
The Edison
The Edison is an industrial gothic-style restaurant and bar at Disney Springs known for its 1920s theming, craft cocktails, and live entertainment.
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C.
The King of Kings (1927 film)
The King of Kings (1927 film) is a silent biblical epic directed by Cecil B. DeMille that dramatizes the life, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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D.
Headlong
Headlong is a comic novel by Michael Frayn in which a hapless philosopher becomes obsessed with a possibly undiscovered Bruegel painting, blending farce with art-historical intrigue.
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E.
Metropolis
Metropolis is a fictional, futuristic American city in the DC Comics universe, best known as Superman’s primary home and the backdrop for many of his stories.
- 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 Big Idea (1920 film) Target entity description: The Big Idea (1920 film) is a silent comedy short starring Australian-born comedian Snub Pollard, known for its slapstick humor and inventive gags.
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A.
The Very Idea (1920 film)
The Very Idea (1920 film) is a silent American comedy feature from the early 20th century, now considered a lost film, that explored contemporary social themes with a light, humorous touch.
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B.
The Edison
The Edison is an industrial gothic-style restaurant and bar at Disney Springs known for its 1920s theming, craft cocktails, and live entertainment.
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C.
The King of Kings (1927 film)
The King of Kings (1927 film) is a silent biblical epic directed by Cecil B. DeMille that dramatizes the life, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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D.
Headlong
Headlong is a comic novel by Michael Frayn in which a hapless philosopher becomes obsessed with a possibly undiscovered Bruegel painting, blending farce with art-historical intrigue.
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E.
Metropolis
Metropolis is a fictional, futuristic American city in the DC Comics universe, best known as Superman’s primary home and the backdrop for many of his stories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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comedy film ⓘ silent short film ⓘ |
| castMember | Snub Pollard ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| featureLength | short film ⓘ |
| format | silent film ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
slapstick ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | silent (English intertitles) ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | character played by Snub Pollard ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Big Idea ⓘ |
| medium | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| notableFor |
inventive gags
ⓘ
slapstick humor ⓘ |
| partOf |
Snub Pollard
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surface form:
Snub Pollard filmography
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| productionEra | silent era ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1920 ⓘ |
| starNationality | Australian-born ⓘ |
| starring | Snub Pollard ⓘ |
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 Big Idea (1920 film) Description of subject: The Big Idea (1920 film) is a silent comedy short starring Australian-born comedian Snub Pollard, known for its slapstick humor and inventive gags.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.