Ethan Frome
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Ethan Frome is a 1993 American drama film directed by John Madden, adapted from Edith Wharton's novel about a tragic love triangle in a bleak New England setting.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ethan Frome canonical | 9 |
| Ethan Frome (novel) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2850285 — 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: Ethan Frome Context triple: [John Madden, notableWork, Ethan Frome]
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A.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
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B.
Shirley
Shirley is an English surname of Old English origin that has also become a common given name.
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C.
Shirley
Shirley is the given name of Shirley Ann Jackson, a prominent American physicist and trailblazing academic leader.
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D.
Shirley
"Shirley" is a social and political novel by Charlotte Brontë set during the industrial unrest of early 19th-century England, exploring themes of class conflict, gender roles, and economic hardship.
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E.
Way Down East
Way Down East is a 1920 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, renowned for its emotional storytelling and groundbreaking ice floe rescue sequence.
- 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: Ethan Frome Target entity description: Ethan Frome is a 1993 American drama film directed by John Madden, adapted from Edith Wharton's novel about a tragic love triangle in a bleak New England setting.
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A.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
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B.
Shirley
Shirley is an English surname of Old English origin that has also become a common given name.
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C.
Shirley
"Shirley" is a social and political novel by Charlotte Brontë set during the industrial unrest of early 19th-century England, exploring themes of class conflict, gender roles, and economic hardship.
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D.
Shirley
Shirley is the given name of Shirley Ann Jackson, a prominent American physicist and trailblazing academic leader.
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E.
Way Down East
Way Down East is a 1920 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, renowned for its emotional storytelling and groundbreaking ice floe rescue sequence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drama film
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film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf |
Ethan Frome
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Ethan Frome (novel)
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| authorOfSourceWork | Edith Wharton ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Ethan Frome
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Ethan Frome (novel)
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | John Madden ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Ethan Frome self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | tragic love triangle ⓘ |
| narrativeTone | bleak ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| productionType | feature film ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1993 ⓘ |
| settingLocation | New England ⓘ |
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: Ethan Frome Description of subject: Ethan Frome is a 1993 American drama film directed by John Madden, adapted from Edith Wharton's novel about a tragic love triangle in a bleak New England setting.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ethan Frome (1993 film)
this entity surface form:
Ethan Frome (novel)
subject surface form:
Ethan Frome (1993 film)
this entity surface form:
Ethan Frome (novel)
subject surface form:
Ethan Frome (1993 film)
subject surface form:
Summer (novel)