The Whole Wide World
E504791
The Whole Wide World is a 1996 biographical drama film about the relationship between pulp writer Robert E. Howard and schoolteacher Novalyne Price, adapted from Price’s memoirs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Whole Wide World canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5234125 — 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 Whole Wide World Context triple: [Dan Ireland, directed, The Whole Wide World]
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A.
You’re All the World to Me
"You’re All the World to Me" is a classic song famously performed by Fred Astaire in the 1951 MGM musical film "Royal Wedding," noted for its innovative rotating-room dance sequence.
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B.
I Saw the World
"I Saw the World" is a darkly poetic anti-war song by the 1960s psychedelic folk-rock band Pearls Before Swine, known for its haunting lyrics and melancholic tone.
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C.
Lost in the World
"Lost in the World" is a genre-blending, emotionally charged track by Kanye West that closes his album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy with layered vocals, atmospheric production, and a transition into the spoken-word piece "Who Will Survive in America."
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D.
I’m Sitting on Top of the World
"I'm Sitting on Top of the World" is a popular early 20th-century American song that became a standard, widely recorded by various artists across jazz and popular music.
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E.
Our Song
"Our Song" is a track by the English progressive rock band Yes, featured on their 1983 album "90125."
- 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 Whole Wide World Target entity description: The Whole Wide World is a 1996 biographical drama film about the relationship between pulp writer Robert E. Howard and schoolteacher Novalyne Price, adapted from Price’s memoirs.
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A.
You’re All the World to Me
"You’re All the World to Me" is a classic song famously performed by Fred Astaire in the 1951 MGM musical film "Royal Wedding," noted for its innovative rotating-room dance sequence.
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B.
I Saw the World
"I Saw the World" is a darkly poetic anti-war song by the 1960s psychedelic folk-rock band Pearls Before Swine, known for its haunting lyrics and melancholic tone.
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C.
Lost in the World
"Lost in the World" is a genre-blending, emotionally charged track by Kanye West that closes his album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy with layered vocals, atmospheric production, and a transition into the spoken-word piece "Who Will Survive in America."
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D.
I’m Sitting on Top of the World
"I'm Sitting on Top of the World" is a popular early 20th-century American song that became a standard, widely recorded by various artists across jazz and popular music.
-
E.
Our Song
"Our Song" is a track by the English progressive rock band Yes, featured on their 1983 album "90125."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Novalyne Price Ellis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Day of the Stranger
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
One Who Walked Alone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Claudio Rocha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depictsProfession |
pulp writer
ⓘ
schoolteacher ⓘ |
| director | Dan Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Sony Pictures Classics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Luis Colina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmEra | 1990s American cinema ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
creative struggle
ⓘ
literary life ⓘ romantic relationship ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Harry Gregson-Williams
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marco Beltrami NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early leading role for Renée Zellweger
ⓘ
portrayal of Robert E. Howard's personal life ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays |
Novalyne Price Ellis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert E. Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portraysGenre | pulp fiction ⓘ |
| premiereEvent | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Dan Ireland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elizabeth R. Cantillon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationTypeOfSource |
memoir
ⓘ
non-fiction book ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1996-01-27 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 106 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Michael Scott Myers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Renée Zellweger
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vincent D'Onofrio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOfFilm |
Novalyne Price Ellis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert E. Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodSetting | 1930s ⓘ |
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 Whole Wide World Description of subject: The Whole Wide World is a 1996 biographical drama film about the relationship between pulp writer Robert E. Howard and schoolteacher Novalyne Price, adapted from Price’s memoirs.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.