Curly Top
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Curly Top is a 1935 musical film starring child actress Shirley Temple, known for its charming songs and Temple’s iconic performance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Curly Top canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4945724 — 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: Curly Top Context triple: [Shirley Temple, notableWork, Curly Top]
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A.
Banana Bottom
Banana Bottom is a 1933 novel by Jamaican writer Claude McKay that explores themes of identity, colonialism, and cultural heritage through the story of a young Black woman returning to her rural Jamaican roots.
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B.
Broken Top
Broken Top is a heavily eroded, extinct stratovolcano in Oregon’s Cascade Range, known for its jagged summit and popular hiking and climbing routes.
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C.
Big Pineapple
The Big Pineapple is a large, iconic pineapple-shaped tourist attraction and heritage-listed landmark on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast in Australia.
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D.
Crumblin' Erb
"Crumblin' Erb" is a laid-back, funk-infused hip-hop track by Outkast that reflects on stress, escape, and Southern street life.
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E.
Tip Top House
Tip Top House is a historic stone hotel and former summit house located atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire, known as one of the oldest surviving mountain-top hostels in the United States.
- 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: Curly Top Target entity description: Curly Top is a 1935 musical film starring child actress Shirley Temple, known for its charming songs and Temple’s iconic performance.
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A.
Banana Bottom
Banana Bottom is a 1933 novel by Jamaican writer Claude McKay that explores themes of identity, colonialism, and cultural heritage through the story of a young Black woman returning to her rural Jamaican roots.
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B.
Broken Top
Broken Top is a heavily eroded, extinct stratovolcano in Oregon’s Cascade Range, known for its jagged summit and popular hiking and climbing routes.
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C.
Big Pineapple
The Big Pineapple is a large, iconic pineapple-shaped tourist attraction and heritage-listed landmark on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast in Australia.
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D.
Crumblin' Erb
"Crumblin' Erb" is a laid-back, funk-infused hip-hop track by Outkast that reflects on stress, escape, and Southern street life.
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E.
Tip Top House
Tip Top House is a historic stone hotel and former summit house located atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire, known as one of the oldest surviving mountain-top hostels in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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film ⓘ musical film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Daddy-Long-Legs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Jean Webster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| character |
Colonel Bellamy
NERFINISHED
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Edward Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ Elizabeth Blair NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Blair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Arthur C. Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Irving Cummings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Fox Film Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Alex Troffey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresSong |
Animal Crackers in My Soup
NERFINISHED
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Curly Top NERFINISHED ⓘ When I Grow Up NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | theatrical feature film ⓘ |
| genre |
musical film
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romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| hasChildProtagonist | true ⓘ |
| leadActorRole |
John Boles as Edward Morgan
NERFINISHED
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Rochelle Hudson as Mary Blair NERFINISHED ⓘ Shirley Temple as Elizabeth Blair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
adoption
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romance ⓘ social class differences ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Hugo Friedhofer
NERFINISHED
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R.H. Bassett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Shirley Temple musical numbers
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song Animal Crackers in My Soup ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Darryl F. Zanuck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Fox Film Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1930s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1935 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 75 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Jane Murfin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | orphanage ⓘ |
| starring |
Arthur Treacher
NERFINISHED
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Etienne Girardot NERFINISHED ⓘ John Boles NERFINISHED ⓘ Rochelle Hudson NERFINISHED ⓘ Shirley Temple NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Curly Top 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: Curly Top Description of subject: Curly Top is a 1935 musical film starring child actress Shirley Temple, known for its charming songs and Temple’s iconic performance.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.