The Spirit of ’76 (1917 film)
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The Spirit of ’76 is a 1917 American silent drama film set during the American Revolutionary War, best known for featuring early screen star Jack Pickford.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Spirit of ’76 (1917 film) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2649576 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Spirit of ’76 (1917 film) Context triple: [Jack Pickford, notableWork, The Spirit of ’76 (1917 film)]
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1776 (film)
1776 (film) is a 1972 musical drama that adapts the Broadway stage production about the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the debates of the Continental Congress.
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B.
The Fighting 69th
The Fighting 69th is a 1940 World War I drama film about the famed Irish-American 69th Infantry Regiment, starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien.
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C.
The Big Parade
The Big Parade is a landmark 1925 American silent war drama film directed by King Vidor that powerfully depicts a young man's harrowing experiences in World War I.
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D.
Pride of the Marines
Pride of the Marines is a 1945 World War II drama film starring John Garfield as a Marine who must adjust to life after being blinded in combat.
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E.
Washington Crossing the Delaware
"Washington Crossing the Delaware" is a famous 1851 oil painting by Emanuel Leutze depicting George Washington leading Continental Army troops across the icy Delaware River during the American Revolutionary War.
- 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 Spirit of ’76 (1917 film) Target entity description: The Spirit of ’76 is a 1917 American silent drama film set during the American Revolutionary War, best known for featuring early screen star Jack Pickford.
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A.
1776 (film)
1776 (film) is a 1972 musical drama that adapts the Broadway stage production about the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the debates of the Continental Congress.
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B.
The Fighting 69th
The Fighting 69th is a 1940 World War I drama film about the famed Irish-American 69th Infantry Regiment, starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien.
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C.
The Big Parade
The Big Parade is a landmark 1925 American silent war drama film directed by King Vidor that powerfully depicts a young man's harrowing experiences in World War I.
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D.
Pride of the Marines
Pride of the Marines is a 1945 World War II drama film starring John Garfield as a Marine who must adjust to life after being blinded in combat.
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E.
Washington Crossing the Delaware
"Washington Crossing the Delaware" is a famous 1851 oil painting by Emanuel Leutze depicting George Washington leading Continental Army troops across the icy Delaware River during the American Revolutionary War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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drama film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| basedOn | events of the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| features | Jack Pickford ⓘ |
| filmFormat | silent ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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historical film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| hasCastMember | Jack Pickford ⓘ |
| hasCountryOfOrigin | USA ⓘ |
| hasGenre | silent drama ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English intertitles ⓘ |
| isA |
1910s American silent feature film
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1910s war drama film ⓘ |
| medium | motion picture ⓘ |
| notableFor | featuring early screen star Jack Pickford ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Silent film (English intertitles) ⓘ |
| productionType | feature film ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1917 ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| title | The Spirit of ’76 ⓘ |
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 Spirit of ’76 (1917 film) Description of subject: The Spirit of ’76 is a 1917 American silent drama film set during the American Revolutionary War, best known for featuring early screen star Jack Pickford.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jack Pickford