A Town Like Alice
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A Town Like Alice is a 1956 British film adaptation of Nevil Shute’s novel, depicting a woman’s harrowing experiences as a prisoner of war in Malaya during World War II and her later efforts to rebuild lives in the Australian outback.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Town Like Alice canonical | 5 |
| A Town Like Alice (1981 television serial) | 1 |
| A Town Like Alice (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2892134 — 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: A Town Like Alice Context triple: [Peter Finch, notableWork, A Town Like Alice]
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River Amber
The River Amber is a small river in Derbyshire, England, that flows through the Amber Valley before joining the River Derwent.
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The Rescue
The Rescue is a dramatic 1855 painting by British Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais depicting a father saving his children from a burning building.
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C.
A Cry in the Dark
A Cry in the Dark is a 1988 Australian drama film, also known as Evil Angels, that dramatizes the true story of Lindy Chamberlain, whose baby’s disappearance at Uluru led to one of Australia’s most infamous legal cases.
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D.
The Town
The Town is a 1957 novel by William Faulkner, part of his Snopes trilogy, that explores the rise of the Snopes family and the changing social fabric of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
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E.
The Town
The Town is a 2010 crime thriller film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, centered on a crew of Boston bank robbers and the personal and moral conflicts that arise after one of them falls for a former hostage.
- 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: A Town Like Alice Target entity description: A Town Like Alice is a 1956 British film adaptation of Nevil Shute’s novel, depicting a woman’s harrowing experiences as a prisoner of war in Malaya during World War II and her later efforts to rebuild lives in the Australian outback.
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A.
River Amber
The River Amber is a small river in Derbyshire, England, that flows through the Amber Valley before joining the River Derwent.
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B.
The Rescue
The Rescue is a dramatic 1855 painting by British Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais depicting a father saving his children from a burning building.
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C.
A Cry in the Dark
A Cry in the Dark is a 1988 Australian drama film, also known as Evil Angels, that dramatizes the true story of Lindy Chamberlain, whose baby’s disappearance at Uluru led to one of Australia’s most infamous legal cases.
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D.
The Town
The Town is a 1957 novel by William Faulkner, part of his Snopes trilogy, that explores the rise of the Snopes family and the changing social fabric of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
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E.
The Town
The Town is a 2010 crime thriller film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, centered on a crew of Boston bank robbers and the personal and moral conflicts that arise after one of them falls for a former hostage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: A Town Like Alice Description of subject: A Town Like Alice is a 1956 British film adaptation of Nevil Shute’s novel, depicting a woman’s harrowing experiences as a prisoner of war in Malaya during World War II and her later efforts to rebuild lives in the Australian outback.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Peter Finch
this entity surface form:
A Town Like Alice (novel)
this entity surface form:
A Town Like Alice (1981 television serial)