The Match King
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The Match King is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film about a ruthless match tycoon, starring Warren William and featuring Guy Kibbee in a supporting role.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Match King canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5140728 — 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 Match King Context triple: [Guy Kibbee, notableWork, The Match King]
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A.
The Millionaire
The Millionaire is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film starring George Arliss as a retired businessman who secretly returns to work, produced by Warner Bros. and associated with filmmaker Bryan Foy.
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B.
The King of Marvin Gardens
The King of Marvin Gardens is a 1972 American drama film directed by Bob Rafelson, known for its melancholic tone and exploration of fractured family relationships and failed dreams in Atlantic City.
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C.
A King in New York
A King in New York is a 1957 satirical comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, critiquing American politics and McCarthyism through the story of an exiled monarch in New York City.
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D.
The Waltz King
The Waltz King is the nickname of Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, famed for popularizing the Viennese waltz through works like "The Blue Danube."
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E.
The Bonus King
The Bonus King is a promotional slogan used by the British bookmaker Betfred to emphasize its focus on offering generous betting bonuses and special offers.
- 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 Match King Target entity description: The Match King is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film about a ruthless match tycoon, starring Warren William and featuring Guy Kibbee in a supporting role.
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A.
The Millionaire
The Millionaire is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film starring George Arliss as a retired businessman who secretly returns to work, produced by Warner Bros. and associated with filmmaker Bryan Foy.
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B.
The King of Marvin Gardens
The King of Marvin Gardens is a 1972 American drama film directed by Bob Rafelson, known for its melancholic tone and exploration of fractured family relationships and failed dreams in Atlantic City.
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C.
A King in New York
A King in New York is a 1957 satirical comedy film directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin, critiquing American politics and McCarthyism through the story of an exiled monarch in New York City.
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D.
The Waltz King
The Waltz King is the nickname of Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, famed for popularizing the Viennese waltz through works like "The Blue Danube."
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E.
The Bonus King
The Bonus King is a promotional slogan used by the British bookmaker Betfred to emphasize its focus on offering generous betting bonuses and special offers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
novel by Axel Kielland
ⓘ
novel by Einar Thorvaldson Kvaran ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Sidney Hickox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director |
Howard Bretherton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Keighley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
First National Pictures
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Warner Bros. Pictures ⓘ
surface form:
Warner Bros.
|
| editedBy | Owen Marks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | Paul Kroll NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
corporate corruption
ⓘ
financial fraud ⓘ rise and fall of a tycoon ⓘ |
| mainCharacterPortrayedBy | Warren William NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Bernhard Kaun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | ruthless match tycoon ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | pre-Code Hollywood era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Hal B. Wallis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1932 ⓘ |
| runtime | 79 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Houston Branch
ⓘ
Lillie Hayward NERFINISHED ⓘ Sidney Sutherland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | interwar period ⓘ |
| setting |
Europe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| starring |
Alan Hale Sr.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Claire Dodd NERFINISHED ⓘ Glenda Farrell NERFINISHED ⓘ Guy Kibbee NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold Huber NERFINISHED ⓘ Lili Damita NERFINISHED ⓘ Spencer Charters NERFINISHED ⓘ Warren William NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Match King 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: The Match King Description of subject: The Match King is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film about a ruthless match tycoon, starring Warren William and featuring Guy Kibbee in a supporting role.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.