This Happy Breed
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This Happy Breed is a 1944 British drama film directed by David Lean, adapted from Noël Coward’s play about the lives of a lower-middle-class London family between World War I and World War II.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| This Happy Breed canonical | 7 |
| This Happy Breed (1944 film) | 2 |
| The Ladykillers | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4737927 — 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: This Happy Breed Context triple: [Celia Johnson, notableWork, This Happy Breed]
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A.
The Ladykillers
The Ladykillers is a 2004 dark comedy crime film by the Coen brothers, starring Tom Hanks as the leader of a gang whose heist scheme unravels in the home of an unsuspecting elderly landlady.
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B.
Nine O'Clock Gun
The Nine O'Clock Gun is a historic naval cannon in Vancouver that is fired nightly as a time signal and popular local tradition.
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C.
Stray Dog
Stray Dog is a 1949 Japanese crime drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, often regarded as an early masterpiece of film noir–influenced police procedural cinema.
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D.
Man of the House
Man of the House is the political memoir of longtime U.S. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill, recounting his career in Congress and his views on American politics.
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E.
The Loved One
The Loved One is a darkly comic novella by Evelyn Waugh that satirizes the American funeral industry and Hollywood culture.
- 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: This Happy Breed Target entity description: This Happy Breed is a 1944 British drama film directed by David Lean, adapted from Noël Coward’s play about the lives of a lower-middle-class London family between World War I and World War II.
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A.
The Ladykillers
The Ladykillers is a 2004 dark comedy crime film by the Coen brothers, starring Tom Hanks as the leader of a gang whose heist scheme unravels in the home of an unsuspecting elderly landlady.
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B.
Nine O'Clock Gun
The Nine O'Clock Gun is a historic naval cannon in Vancouver that is fired nightly as a time signal and popular local tradition.
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C.
Stray Dog
Stray Dog is a 1949 Japanese crime drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, often regarded as an early masterpiece of film noir–influenced police procedural cinema.
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D.
Man of the House
Man of the House is the political memoir of longtime U.S. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill, recounting his career in Congress and his views on American politics.
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E.
The Loved One
The Loved One is a darkly comic novella by Evelyn Waugh that satirizes the American funeral industry and Hollywood culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British film
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drama film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | stage play ⓘ |
| basedOn | This Happy Breed (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Ronald Neame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Three-strip Technicolor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depictsEvent |
General Strike of 1926
NERFINISHED
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World War I aftermath ⓘ outbreak of World War II ⓘ rise of fascism in Europe ⓘ |
| director | David Lean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | General Film Distributors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Jack Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Denham Film Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | Technicolor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacterFamilyName | Gibbons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Noël Coward
NERFINISHED
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Richard Addinsell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | lower-middle-class family life ⓘ |
| originalWorkLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfFilmographyOf | David Lean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playwrightOfSourceWork | Noël Coward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Anthony Havelock-Allan
NERFINISHED
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David Lean NERFINISHED ⓘ Noël Coward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Cineguild NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1944-06-21 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1944 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 111 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Anthony Havelock-Allan
NERFINISHED
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David Lean NERFINISHED ⓘ Ronald Neame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInCity | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | interwar period ⓘ |
| stars |
Alison Leggatt
NERFINISHED
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Celia Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ Eileen Erskine NERFINISHED ⓘ Guy Verney NERFINISHED ⓘ John Blythe NERFINISHED ⓘ John Mills NERFINISHED ⓘ Kay Walsh NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Newton NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanley Holloway 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: This Happy Breed Description of subject: This Happy Breed is a 1944 British drama film directed by David Lean, adapted from Noël Coward’s play about the lives of a lower-middle-class London family between World War I and World War II.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Michael Balcon
this entity surface form:
The Ladykillers
this entity surface form:
This Happy Breed (1944 film)
this entity surface form:
This Happy Breed (1944 film)