Lilies of the Field
E43901
Lilies of the Field is a 1963 American film drama, best known for Sidney Poitier’s Oscar-winning performance as a handyman who helps a group of nuns build a chapel in the Arizona desert.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lilies of the Field canonical | 15 |
| Lilies of the Field (1963 film) | 3 |
| Lilies of the Field (novel) | 3 |
| "Lilies of the Field" | 1 |
| The Lilies of the Field (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T345796 — 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: Lilies of the Field Context triple: [Ralph Nelson, notableWork, Lilies of the Field]
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A.
Red Dust
Red Dust is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow, set on a rubber plantation in French Indochina.
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B.
National Velvet
National Velvet is a classic 1944 family sports drama film about a young girl and her horse competing in the Grand National steeplechase.
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C.
Scenes from the Heart
Scenes from the Heart is a memoir-style book co-written by Swedish opera singer Malena Ernman and her family that chronicles their personal journey through climate activism and raising Greta Thunberg.
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D.
On the Town
On the Town is a 1944 Broadway musical with music by Leonard Bernstein that follows three sailors on 24-hour shore leave in New York City, later adapted into a popular 1949 film.
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E.
Meet Me in St. Louis
Meet Me in St. Louis is a classic 1944 American musical film set in early 20th-century St. Louis, following the lives and romances of the Smith family in the lead-up to the 1904 World's Fair.
- 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: Lilies of the Field Target entity description: Lilies of the Field is a 1963 American film drama, best known for Sidney Poitier’s Oscar-winning performance as a handyman who helps a group of nuns build a chapel in the Arizona desert.
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A.
Red Dust
Red Dust is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow, set on a rubber plantation in French Indochina.
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B.
National Velvet
National Velvet is a classic 1944 family sports drama film about a young girl and her horse competing in the Grand National steeplechase.
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C.
Scenes from the Heart
Scenes from the Heart is a memoir-style book co-written by Swedish opera singer Malena Ernman and her family that chronicles their personal journey through climate activism and raising Greta Thunberg.
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D.
On the Town
On the Town is a 1944 Broadway musical with music by Leonard Bernstein that follows three sailors on 24-hour shore leave in New York City, later adapted into a popular 1949 film.
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E.
Meet Me in St. Louis
Meet Me in St. Louis is a classic 1944 American musical film set in early 20th-century St. Louis, following the lives and romances of the Smith family in the lead-up to the 1904 World's Fair.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Lilies of the Field Description of subject: Lilies of the Field is a 1963 American film drama, best known for Sidney Poitier’s Oscar-winning performance as a handyman who helps a group of nuns build a chapel in the Arizona desert.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lilies of the Field (novel)
subject surface form:
Sidney Poitier
subject surface form:
Lilia Skala
this entity surface form:
Lilies of the Field (1963 film)
this entity surface form:
Lilies of the Field (novel)
this entity surface form:
Lilies of the Field (novel)
this entity surface form:
Lilies of the Field (1963 film)
this entity surface form:
"Lilies of the Field"
this entity surface form:
Lilies of the Field (1963 film)
subject surface form:
Lilies of the Field (1963 film)
this entity surface form:
The Lilies of the Field (novel)