Heidi (1937 film)
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Heidi (1937 film) is a classic American family drama starring Shirley Temple, based on Johanna Spyri’s novel about an orphaned girl living in the Swiss Alps.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Heidi (1937 film) canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4091104 — 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: Heidi (1937 film) Context triple: [Heidi, adaptation, Heidi (1937 film)]
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A.
Random Harvest
Random Harvest is a 1942 romantic drama film, based on James Hilton’s novel, renowned for its amnesia-driven love story and considered one of director Mervyn LeRoy’s most enduring works.
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B.
Jedermann
Jedermann is a famous morality play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal that has become an iconic centerpiece of the annual Salzburg Festival.
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C.
Mayerling (1936 film)
Mayerling (1936 film) is a 1936 French historical romantic drama directed by Anatole Litvak that dramatizes the tragic love affair and deaths of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and Baroness Mary Vetsera.
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D.
Wuthering Heights (1939 film)
Wuthering Heights (1939 film) is a classic Hollywood adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel, renowned for its Gothic romance, atmospheric cinematography, and Laurence Olivier’s iconic performance as Heathcliff.
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E.
Bambi
Bambi is a classic 1942 animated film produced by Walt Disney that follows the life and coming-of-age of a young deer in the forest.
- 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: Heidi (1937 film) Target entity description: Heidi (1937 film) is a classic American family drama starring Shirley Temple, based on Johanna Spyri’s novel about an orphaned girl living in the Swiss Alps.
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A.
Random Harvest
Random Harvest is a 1942 romantic drama film, based on James Hilton’s novel, renowned for its amnesia-driven love story and considered one of director Mervyn LeRoy’s most enduring works.
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B.
Jedermann
Jedermann is a famous morality play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal that has become an iconic centerpiece of the annual Salzburg Festival.
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C.
Mayerling (1936 film)
Mayerling (1936 film) is a 1936 French historical romantic drama directed by Anatole Litvak that dramatizes the tragic love affair and deaths of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and Baroness Mary Vetsera.
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D.
Wuthering Heights (1939 film)
Wuthering Heights (1939 film) is a classic Hollywood adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel, renowned for its Gothic romance, atmospheric cinematography, and Laurence Olivier’s iconic performance as Heathcliff.
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E.
Bambi
Bambi is a classic 1942 animated film produced by Walt Disney that follows the life and coming-of-age of a young deer in the forest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
ⓘ
black-and-white film ⓘ family drama film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Heidi (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Johanna Spyri ⓘ |
| castMember |
Arthur Treacher
ⓘ
Helen Westley ⓘ Jean Hersholt ⓘ Mady Christians ⓘ Marcia Mae Jones ⓘ Mary Nash NERFINISHED ⓘ Shirley Temple ⓘ Sidney Blackmer ⓘ Sig Ruman ⓘ |
| character |
Fraulein Rottenmeier
ⓘ
surface form:
Fräulein Rottenmeier
Alm-Uncle ⓘ
surface form:
Grandfather (Alm-Uncle)
Heidi NERFINISHED ⓘ Klara Sesemann ⓘ |
| cinematography | Arthur C. Miller ⓘ |
| colorProcess | black and white ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| director | Allan Dwan ⓘ |
| distributor |
20th Century Fox
ⓘ
20th Century Fox ⓘ
surface form:
20th Century Fox Film Corporation
|
| editedBy | Allen McNeil ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
family film ⓘ |
| hasShirleyTempleFilm | Yes ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | orphan girl living in the Swiss Alps ⓘ |
| musicBy | Leigh Harline ⓘ |
| notableFor |
adaptation of Johanna Spyri's novel "Heidi"
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starring child actress Shirley Temple at the height of her popularity ⓘ |
| partOf | Shirley Temple filmography ⓘ |
| producer | Darryl F. Zanuck ⓘ |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1937-10-15 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1937 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 88 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Gertrude Purcell
ⓘ
Julien Josephson ⓘ Walter Ferris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
Swiss Alps
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Switzerland ⓘ |
| starring | Shirley Temple ⓘ |
| title | Heidi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Heidi (1937 film) Description of subject: Heidi (1937 film) is a classic American family drama starring Shirley Temple, based on Johanna Spyri’s novel about an orphaned girl living in the Swiss Alps.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.