If I Were King (1938 film)
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If I Were King (1938 film) is a 1938 historical adventure drama starring Ronald Colman as the poet François Villon in a romanticized tale set in medieval France.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| If I Were King (1938 film) canonical | 3 |
| If I Were King (play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2789399 — 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: If I Were King (1938 film) Context triple: [Ronald Colman, notableWork, If I Were King (1938 film)]
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A.
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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B.
The King of Hollywood
The King of Hollywood is the legendary screen persona of Clark Gable, the charismatic leading man best known for his role as Rhett Butler in "Gone with the Wind" and his status as one of classic cinema’s most iconic stars.
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C.
Pygmalion (1938 film)
Pygmalion (1938 film) is a British romantic comedy-drama adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play, best known for its witty exploration of class and language and for inspiring the later musical My Fair Lady.
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D.
Message from the King
Message from the King is a 2016 neo-noir action thriller film in which Chadwick Boseman stars as a South African man who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his sister’s death.
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E.
1937 film The Prince and the Pauper
The 1937 film "The Prince and the Pauper" is a black-and-white adventure drama based on Mark Twain’s novel, featuring Errol Flynn and the Mauch twins in a story of mistaken identity between a young prince and a poor look-alike.
- 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: If I Were King (1938 film) Target entity description: If I Were King (1938 film) is a 1938 historical adventure drama starring Ronald Colman as the poet François Villon in a romanticized tale set in medieval France.
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A.
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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B.
The King of Hollywood
The King of Hollywood is the legendary screen persona of Clark Gable, the charismatic leading man best known for his role as Rhett Butler in "Gone with the Wind" and his status as one of classic cinema’s most iconic stars.
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C.
Pygmalion (1938 film)
Pygmalion (1938 film) is a British romantic comedy-drama adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play, best known for its witty exploration of class and language and for inspiring the later musical My Fair Lady.
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D.
Message from the King
Message from the King is a 2016 neo-noir action thriller film in which Chadwick Boseman stars as a South African man who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his sister’s death.
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E.
1937 film The Prince and the Pauper
The 1937 film "The Prince and the Pauper" is a black-and-white adventure drama based on Mark Twain’s novel, featuring Errol Flynn and the Mauch twins in a story of mistaken identity between a young prince and a poor look-alike.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: If I Were King (1938 film) Description of subject: If I Were King (1938 film) is a 1938 historical adventure drama starring Ronald Colman as the poet François Villon in a romanticized tale set in medieval France.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
If I Were King (play)