Pull My Daisy (1959 film)
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Pull My Daisy (1959 film) is a seminal 1959 American short film associated with the Beat Generation, featuring narration by Jack Kerouac and appearances by key Beat figures.
All labels observed (1)
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| Pull My Daisy (1959 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3090716 — 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)
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Target entity: Pull My Daisy (1959 film) Context triple: [Peter Orlovsky, appearsIn, Pull My Daisy (1959 film)]
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Some Came Running
Some Came Running is a 1958 American drama film, based on James Jones's novel, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Shirley MacLaine in a story of a war veteran's troubled return to small-town life.
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B.
McLintock! (1963 film)
McLintock! (1963 film) is a 1963 Western comedy starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara that parodies The Taming of the Shrew against the backdrop of frontier family and land disputes.
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Valley of the Dolls
Valley of the Dolls is a 1967 drama film, based on Jacqueline Susann’s bestselling novel, that follows three women navigating fame, addiction, and personal turmoil in the entertainment industry.
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D.
Gilda
Gilda is a classic 1946 American film noir starring Rita Hayworth in one of her most iconic roles.
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E.
Reap the Wild Wind
Reap the Wild Wind is a 1942 seafaring adventure film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, known for its maritime salvage drama set in the 1840s along the Florida coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Pull My Daisy (1959 film) Target entity description: Pull My Daisy (1959 film) is a seminal 1959 American short film associated with the Beat Generation, featuring narration by Jack Kerouac and appearances by key Beat figures.
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A.
Some Came Running
Some Came Running is a 1958 American drama film, based on James Jones's novel, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Shirley MacLaine in a story of a war veteran's troubled return to small-town life.
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B.
McLintock! (1963 film)
McLintock! (1963 film) is a 1963 Western comedy starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara that parodies The Taming of the Shrew against the backdrop of frontier family and land disputes.
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C.
Valley of the Dolls
Valley of the Dolls is a 1967 drama film, based on Jacqueline Susann’s bestselling novel, that follows three women navigating fame, addiction, and personal turmoil in the entertainment industry.
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D.
Gilda
Gilda is a classic 1946 American film noir starring Rita Hayworth in one of her most iconic roles.
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E.
Reap the Wild Wind
Reap the Wild Wind is a 1942 seafaring adventure film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, known for its maritime salvage drama set in the 1840s along the Florida coast.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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Beat Generation film ⓘ black-and-white film ⓘ independent film ⓘ short film ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Beat literature
ⓘ
New American Cinema ⓘ |
| basedOn | an episode from the unproduced play The Beat Generation ⓘ |
| cinematography | Robert Frank ⓘ |
| colorProcess | black and white ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director |
Alfred Leslie
ⓘ
Robert Frank ⓘ |
| distributor | Grove Press ⓘ |
| era | postwar American avant-garde film ⓘ |
| features |
Allen Ginsberg
ⓘ
David Amram ⓘ Delphine Seyrig ⓘ Gregory Corso ⓘ Larry Rivers ⓘ Peter Orlovsky ⓘ Richard Bellamy ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| filmingTechnique |
handheld cinematography
ⓘ
semi-improvised performance ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
experimental film ⓘ |
| hasPoemTitleOrigin | poem "Pull My Daisy" by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Neal Cassady ⓘ |
| influenced |
later American independent cinema
ⓘ
subsequent Beat-related films ⓘ |
| movement | Beat Generation ⓘ |
| musicBy | David Amram ⓘ |
| narrator | Jack Kerouac ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaboration between Beat writers and avant-garde filmmakers
ⓘ
improvisational-sounding narration by Jack Kerouac ⓘ portrayal of Beat Generation lifestyle ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer |
Alfred Leslie
ⓘ
Robert Frank ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1959 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 29 minutes ⓘ |
| screenplayStyle | spontaneous prose ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | contemporary 1950s America ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | visit of a bishop to a bohemian couple's loft ⓘ |
| title | Pull My Daisy ⓘ |
| writer | Jack Kerouac ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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