The Covered Wagon (1923 film)
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The Covered Wagon (1923 film) is a landmark silent Western epic that dramatizes 19th-century pioneers’ arduous journey along the Oregon Trail and helped establish the large-scale Hollywood Western.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Covered Wagon (1923 film) canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4497256 — 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: The Covered Wagon (1923 film) Context triple: [Jesse L. Lasky, produced, The Covered Wagon (1923 film)]
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Wagon Master (1950 film)
Wagon Master (1950 film) is a 1950 American Western directed by John Ford that follows a group of Mormon pioneers traveling by wagon train through the Utah desert.
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B.
The Wells Fargo Wagon
"The Wells Fargo Wagon" is a lively, nostalgic show tune from the Broadway musical *The Music Man* that celebrates the excitement of a small town awaiting deliveries from the Wells Fargo company.
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C.
The Trail of '98 (1928 film)
The Trail of '98 is a 1928 silent adventure film dramatizing the hardships and dangers faced by fortune seekers during the Klondike Gold Rush.
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D.
Dodge City (1939 film)
Dodge City (1939 film) is a 1939 Technicolor Western starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland that follows a cattleman-turned-sheriff cleaning up a lawless Kansas frontier town.
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E.
Forty Guns
Forty Guns is a 1957 Western film directed by Samuel Fuller, known for its striking black-and-white Cinemascope visuals and Barbara Stanwyck’s powerful role as a ruthless ranch matriarch.
- 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: The Covered Wagon (1923 film) Target entity description: The Covered Wagon (1923 film) is a landmark silent Western epic that dramatizes 19th-century pioneers’ arduous journey along the Oregon Trail and helped establish the large-scale Hollywood Western.
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A.
Wagon Master (1950 film)
Wagon Master (1950 film) is a 1950 American Western directed by John Ford that follows a group of Mormon pioneers traveling by wagon train through the Utah desert.
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B.
The Wells Fargo Wagon
"The Wells Fargo Wagon" is a lively, nostalgic show tune from the Broadway musical *The Music Man* that celebrates the excitement of a small town awaiting deliveries from the Wells Fargo company.
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C.
The Trail of '98 (1928 film)
The Trail of '98 is a 1928 silent adventure film dramatizing the hardships and dangers faced by fortune seekers during the Klondike Gold Rush.
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D.
Dodge City (1939 film)
Dodge City (1939 film) is a 1939 Technicolor Western starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland that follows a cattleman-turned-sheriff cleaning up a lawless Kansas frontier town.
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E.
Forty Guns
Forty Guns is a 1957 Western film directed by Samuel Fuller, known for its striking black-and-white Cinemascope visuals and Barbara Stanwyck’s powerful role as a ruthless ranch matriarch.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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Western film ⓘ black-and-white film ⓘ epic film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Emerson Hough NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Covered Wagon (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Karl Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | black and white ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | James Cruze NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributionFormat | theatrical release ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| era | silent era ⓘ |
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| filmingTechnique | on-location shooting in the American West ⓘ |
| genre |
Western
ⓘ
historical drama ⓘ |
| hasFilmPosterArtist | Paramount Pictures art department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIntertitlesLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasLegacy |
considered a landmark Western film
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helped popularize Western genre in mainstream cinema ⓘ |
| helpedEstablish | large-scale Hollywood Western ⓘ |
| historicalDepictionOf | westward expansion of the United States ⓘ |
| includedIn | early Hollywood Western canon ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
pioneer migration
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wagon trains ⓘ |
| musicBy | Hugo Riesenfeld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | American West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of wagon train life
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influence on later Western epics ⓘ large-scale location shooting ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Silent film with English intertitles ⓘ |
| portrays | Oregon Trail migration ⓘ |
| producer | James Cruze NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Famous Players–Lasky Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1923-03-16 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1923 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 98 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Jack Cunningham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Oregon Trail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starred |
Alan Hale Sr.
NERFINISHED
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Charles Ogle NERFINISHED ⓘ Ernest Torrence NERFINISHED ⓘ J. Warren Kerrigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Lois Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ Tully Marshall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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Subject: The Covered Wagon (1923 film) Description of subject: The Covered Wagon (1923 film) is a landmark silent Western epic that dramatizes 19th-century pioneers’ arduous journey along the Oregon Trail and helped establish the large-scale Hollywood Western.
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