The Good Fairy
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The Good Fairy is a 1935 romantic comedy film, scripted by Preston Sturges and directed by William Wyler, about an orphaned young woman whose attempts at doing good lead to a series of humorous misunderstandings.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Good Fairy canonical | 6 |
| The Good Fairy (play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4632282 — 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 Good Fairy Context triple: [Herbert Marshall, notableWork, The Good Fairy]
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A.
The Blue Fairy
The Blue Fairy is a magical, benevolent figure in the Pinocchio story who guides and protects the wooden puppet on his journey to becoming a real boy.
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B.
Lilac Fairy
The Lilac Fairy is a benevolent and powerful fairy in Tchaikovsky’s ballet "The Sleeping Beauty," who protects Princess Aurora and ultimately guides her to a happy awakening.
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C.
Silky the Fairy
Silky the Fairy is a kind, gentle fairy who lives in the Magic Faraway Tree and helps guide the children through its many strange and magical lands.
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D.
Fairy Godmother
The Fairy Godmother is a benevolent magical figure in Disney's "Cinderella" who uses her powers to help Cinderella attend the royal ball and change her destiny.
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E.
Fairy
Fairy is a popular Procter & Gamble brand of dishwashing detergents and related cleaning products, best known for its strong grease-cutting performance.
- 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 Good Fairy Target entity description: The Good Fairy is a 1935 romantic comedy film, scripted by Preston Sturges and directed by William Wyler, about an orphaned young woman whose attempts at doing good lead to a series of humorous misunderstandings.
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A.
The Blue Fairy
The Blue Fairy is a magical, benevolent figure in the Pinocchio story who guides and protects the wooden puppet on his journey to becoming a real boy.
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B.
Lilac Fairy
The Lilac Fairy is a benevolent and powerful fairy in Tchaikovsky’s ballet "The Sleeping Beauty," who protects Princess Aurora and ultimately guides her to a happy awakening.
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C.
Silky the Fairy
Silky the Fairy is a kind, gentle fairy who lives in the Magic Faraway Tree and helps guide the children through its many strange and magical lands.
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D.
Fairy Godmother
The Fairy Godmother is a benevolent magical figure in Disney's "Cinderella" who uses her powers to help Cinderella attend the royal ball and change her destiny.
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E.
Fairy
Fairy is a popular Procter & Gamble brand of dishwashing detergents and related cleaning products, best known for its strong grease-cutting performance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| artDirectionBy | Charles D. Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
A jó tündér
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Ferenc Molnár play ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| character |
Detlaff
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dr. Max Sporum NERFINISHED ⓘ Konrad NERFINISHED ⓘ Luisa Ginglebusher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Norbert Brodine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| costumeDesignBy | Omar Kiam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | William Wyler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedInFormat | theatrical film ⓘ |
| distributor | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Daniel Mandell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Classical Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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romantic comedy ⓘ |
| hasMusicBy | Heinz Roemheld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
altruism leading to unintended consequences
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romantic misunderstanding ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaboration between William Wyler and Margaret Sullavan
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early Hollywood screenplay by Preston Sturges ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | An orphaned young woman tries to do good deeds, leading to humorous misunderstandings ⓘ |
| producer | Carl Laemmle Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 1935-01-10 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1935 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 98 ⓘ |
| screenplayAdaptationBy | Preston Sturges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Preston Sturges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Budapest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Alan Hale Sr.
NERFINISHED
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Beulah Bondi NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ Herbert Marshall NERFINISHED ⓘ Margaret Sullavan NERFINISHED ⓘ Reginald Owen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Good Fairy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: The Good Fairy Description of subject: The Good Fairy is a 1935 romantic comedy film, scripted by Preston Sturges and directed by William Wyler, about an orphaned young woman whose attempts at doing good lead to a series of humorous misunderstandings.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Good Fairy (play)