The Unchanging Sea
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The Unchanging Sea is a 1910 silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, notable as an early example of narrative cinema and for starring actress Linda Arvidson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Unchanging Sea canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5246678 — 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 Unchanging Sea Context triple: [Linda Arvidson, notableWork, The Unchanging Sea]
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A.
The Toll of the Sea
The Toll of the Sea is a 1922 silent drama film, one of the earliest Hollywood movies shot in Technicolor, featuring Anna May Wong in her first leading role.
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B.
To the Sea
To the Sea is a mellow, introspective 2010 studio album by Hawaiian singer-songwriter Jack Johnson that blends acoustic surf rock with themes of family, memory, and the ocean.
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C.
The Sunset Sea
The Sunset Sea is the vast western ocean in the world of "A Song of Ice and Fire," lying beyond the western shores of Westeros and shrouded in mystery and legend.
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D.
Ocean of Storms
Ocean of Storms is a vast lunar mare on the Moon’s near side, notable as the landing region of several Apollo missions and characterized by its dark basaltic plains.
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E.
The Eternal Sea
The Eternal Sea is a 1955 American war drama film starring Sterling Hayden as a determined naval officer coping with the loss of his leg during World War II.
- 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 Unchanging Sea Target entity description: The Unchanging Sea is a 1910 silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, notable as an early example of narrative cinema and for starring actress Linda Arvidson.
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A.
The Toll of the Sea
The Toll of the Sea is a 1922 silent drama film, one of the earliest Hollywood movies shot in Technicolor, featuring Anna May Wong in her first leading role.
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B.
To the Sea
To the Sea is a mellow, introspective 2010 studio album by Hawaiian singer-songwriter Jack Johnson that blends acoustic surf rock with themes of family, memory, and the ocean.
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C.
The Sunset Sea
The Sunset Sea is the vast western ocean in the world of "A Song of Ice and Fire," lying beyond the western shores of Westeros and shrouded in mystery and legend.
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D.
Ocean of Storms
Ocean of Storms is a vast lunar mare on the Moon’s near side, notable as the landing region of several Apollo missions and characterized by its dark basaltic plains.
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E.
The Eternal Sea
The Eternal Sea is a 1955 American war drama film starring Sterling Hayden as a determined naval officer coping with the loss of his leg during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
ⓘ
silent short drama film ⓘ |
| basedOn | poem "The Three Fishers" by Charles Kingsley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography | G. W. Bitzer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | D. W. Griffith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Biograph Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
General Film Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | early silent era ⓘ |
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | short film ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasColor | black-and-white ⓘ |
| hasMedium | film ⓘ |
| hasNarrativeForm | linear narrative with flash-forward-like time jumps ⓘ |
| hasOriginalAudience | theatrical viewers ⓘ |
| hasSurvivalStatus | extant ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
loss
ⓘ
love ⓘ separation ⓘ waiting ⓘ |
| hasTitleCardLanguage | English ⓘ |
| isPartOfMovement | early American narrative cinema ⓘ |
| language | Silent ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early example of narrative cinema
ⓘ
use of recurring time-lapse structure ⓘ |
| partOf | Biograph short film catalog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Biograph Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1910-05-05 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1910 ⓘ |
| runningTime | approximately 14 minutes ⓘ |
| setting | seaside fishing village ⓘ |
| starring |
Alfred Paget
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charles West NERFINISHED ⓘ Clara T. Bracy NERFINISHED ⓘ George Nichols NERFINISHED ⓘ Gladys Egan NERFINISHED ⓘ Kate Bruce NERFINISHED ⓘ Linda Arvidson NERFINISHED ⓘ Mack Sennett NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Pickford NERFINISHED ⓘ Vivian Prescott NERFINISHED ⓘ W. Chrystie Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | 19th century ⓘ |
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 Unchanging Sea Description of subject: The Unchanging Sea is a 1910 silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, notable as an early example of narrative cinema and for starring actress Linda Arvidson.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.