Penrod and Sam (1937 film)
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Penrod and Sam is a 1937 American comedy-drama film adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s stories about the mischievous adventures of a young boy and his friends.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Penrod and Sam | 1 |
| Penrod and Sam (1937 film) canonical | 1 |
| Penrod and Sam (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3445085 — 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: Penrod and Sam (1937 film) Context triple: [Billy Mauch, notableWork, Penrod and Sam (1937 film)]
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The Shepherd of the Hills (1941 film)
The Shepherd of the Hills (1941 film) is a Technicolor Western drama based on Harold Bell Wright’s novel, starring John Wayne in an early leading role.
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B.
The Yearling (1946 film)
The Yearling (1946 film) is a classic American family drama set in rural Florida, following a young boy’s poignant bond with an orphaned fawn and the hardships faced by his pioneer family.
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C.
Boys Town
Boys Town is a 1938 American drama film starring Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney, inspired by the real-life Father Flanagan’s home for troubled boys in Nebraska.
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D.
Captains Courageous (1937 film)
Captains Courageous (1937 film) is a classic American adventure drama based on Rudyard Kipling’s novel, following a spoiled rich boy transformed by his time aboard a New England fishing schooner.
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E.
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
"Life Begins for Andy Hardy" is a 1941 American comedy-drama film in the long-running Andy Hardy series, following Mickey Rooney's character as he faces the challenges of early adulthood.
- 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: Penrod and Sam (1937 film) Target entity description: Penrod and Sam is a 1937 American comedy-drama film adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s stories about the mischievous adventures of a young boy and his friends.
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A.
The Shepherd of the Hills (1941 film)
The Shepherd of the Hills (1941 film) is a Technicolor Western drama based on Harold Bell Wright’s novel, starring John Wayne in an early leading role.
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B.
The Yearling (1946 film)
The Yearling (1946 film) is a classic American family drama set in rural Florida, following a young boy’s poignant bond with an orphaned fawn and the hardships faced by his pioneer family.
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C.
Boys Town
Boys Town is a 1938 American drama film starring Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney, inspired by the real-life Father Flanagan’s home for troubled boys in Nebraska.
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D.
Captains Courageous (1937 film)
Captains Courageous (1937 film) is a classic American adventure drama based on Rudyard Kipling’s novel, following a spoiled rich boy transformed by his time aboard a New England fishing schooner.
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E.
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
"Life Begins for Andy Hardy" is a 1941 American comedy-drama film in the long-running Andy Hardy series, following Mickey Rooney's character as he faces the challenges of early adulthood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Penrod and Sam (1937 film) Description of subject: Penrod and Sam is a 1937 American comedy-drama film adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s stories about the mischievous adventures of a young boy and his friends.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Penrod and Sam
this entity surface form:
Penrod and Sam (novel)