Captain January
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Captain January is a 1936 musical comedy-drama film starring child actress Shirley Temple as an orphan raised by a lighthouse keeper.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Captain January canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4945729 — 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: Captain January Context triple: [Shirley Temple, notableWork, Captain January]
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A.
Captain BrUNO
Captain BrUNO is the costumed privateer mascot representing the University of New Orleans’ athletic teams.
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B.
Captain Jenness
Captain Jenness is a fictional sea captain who appears as a central character in William Dean Howells's novel "The Lady of the Aroostook."
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C.
The Captain
The Captain is the English translation of the Spanish name "El Capitan," famously associated with the iconic granite monolith in Yosemite National Park.
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D.
The Captain
The Captain is the famous nickname of Steve Yzerman, the longtime Detroit Red Wings star and Hall of Fame center renowned for his leadership and three Stanley Cup championships.
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E.
The Captain
The Captain is the famous nickname of Derek Jeter, the longtime New York Yankees shortstop and team leader renowned for his clutch performances and five World Series titles.
- 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: Captain January Target entity description: Captain January is a 1936 musical comedy-drama film starring child actress Shirley Temple as an orphan raised by a lighthouse keeper.
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A.
Captain BrUNO
Captain BrUNO is the costumed privateer mascot representing the University of New Orleans’ athletic teams.
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B.
Captain Jenness
Captain Jenness is a fictional sea captain who appears as a central character in William Dean Howells's novel "The Lady of the Aroostook."
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C.
The Captain
The Captain is the English translation of the Spanish name "El Capitan," famously associated with the iconic granite monolith in Yosemite National Park.
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D.
The Captain
The Captain is the famous nickname of Willis Reed, the Hall of Fame center and emotional leader of the New York Knicks dynasty of the early 1970s.
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E.
The Captain
The Captain is the famous nickname of Steve Yzerman, the longtime Detroit Red Wings star and Hall of Fame center renowned for his leadership and three Stanley Cup championships.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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musical comedy-drama film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Captain January (1890 novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Laura E. Richards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Captain January
NERFINISHED
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Star NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Arthur C. Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | David Butler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Allen McNeil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresChildActress | Shirley Temple NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama film
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musical film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Samuel Kaylin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSong | At the Codfish Ball NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | An orphaned girl named Star is raised by a kindly lighthouse keeper known as Captain January in a seaside town. ⓘ |
| producer | Darryl F. Zanuck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 1936-04-24 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| runningTimeMinutes | approximately 80 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Gladys Lehman
NERFINISHED
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Harry Tugend NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Hellman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | coastal New England ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Guy Kibbee
NERFINISHED
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Jane Darwell NERFINISHED ⓘ Sara Haden NERFINISHED ⓘ Shirley Temple NERFINISHED ⓘ Slim Summerville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Captain January 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: Captain January Description of subject: Captain January is a 1936 musical comedy-drama film starring child actress Shirley Temple as an orphan raised by a lighthouse keeper.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.