The Sound and the Fury (1959 film)
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The Sound and the Fury (1959 film) is a drama adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel, featuring Yul Brynner in a leading role in a story about a Southern family’s decline.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Sound and the Fury (1959 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5402854 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Sound and the Fury (1959 film) Context triple: [Yul Brynner, notableWork, The Sound and the Fury (1959 film)]
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The Sound and the Fury (2014 film)
The Sound and the Fury (2014 film) is a drama directed by and starring James Franco, adapting William Faulkner’s classic novel about the tragic decline of the Compson family in the American South.
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B.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury is a landmark modernist novel by William Faulkner, renowned for its experimental narrative structure and stream-of-consciousness portrayal of the declining Compson family in the American South.
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C.
Orpheus Descending
Orpheus Descending is a 1957 play by Tennessee Williams that reimagines the Orpheus myth in the American South, exploring themes of desire, repression, and social intolerance.
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D.
The Great Gatsby (1949 film)
The Great Gatsby (1949 film) is a black-and-white drama adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, focusing on the tragic romance and moral decay of Jazz Age America.
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The Great Gatsby (1974 film)
The Great Gatsby (1974 film) is a period drama adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, noted for its lavish depiction of Jazz Age opulence and romantic tragedy.
- 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 Sound and the Fury (1959 film) Target entity description: The Sound and the Fury (1959 film) is a drama adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel, featuring Yul Brynner in a leading role in a story about a Southern family’s decline.
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A.
The Sound and the Fury (2014 film)
The Sound and the Fury (2014 film) is a drama directed by and starring James Franco, adapting William Faulkner’s classic novel about the tragic decline of the Compson family in the American South.
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B.
The Sound and the Fury
The Sound and the Fury is a landmark modernist novel by William Faulkner, renowned for its experimental narrative structure and stream-of-consciousness portrayal of the declining Compson family in the American South.
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C.
Orpheus Descending
Orpheus Descending is a 1957 play by Tennessee Williams that reimagines the Orpheus myth in the American South, exploring themes of desire, repression, and social intolerance.
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D.
The Great Gatsby (1949 film)
The Great Gatsby (1949 film) is a black-and-white drama adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, focusing on the tragic romance and moral decay of Jazz Age America.
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E.
The Great Gatsby (1974 film)
The Great Gatsby (1974 film) is a period drama adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, noted for its lavish depiction of Jazz Age opulence and romantic tragedy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | The Sound and the Fury (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Sound and the Fury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | William Faulkner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
Albert Dekker
NERFINISHED
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Betty Lou Keim NERFINISHED ⓘ Ethel Waters NERFINISHED ⓘ Francoise Rosay NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Warden NERFINISHED ⓘ Joanne Woodward NERFINISHED ⓘ John Beal NERFINISHED ⓘ Margaret Leighton NERFINISHED ⓘ Stuart Whitman NERFINISHED ⓘ Yul Brynner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Ernest Haller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | DeLuxe Color ⓘ |
| composer | Alex North NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Martin Ritt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
20th Century Fox
NERFINISHED
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Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Dorothy Spencer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingProcess | CinemaScope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationType | literary adaptation ⓘ |
| hasSourceMaterialGenre | modernist novel ⓘ |
| isBlackAndWhite | false ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadCharacter | Jason Compson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
decline of a Southern aristocratic family
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family conflict ⓘ loss and decay ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | Southern family’s decline ⓘ |
| novelPublicationYear | 1929 ⓘ |
| portraysFamily | Compson family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Jerry Wald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Jerry Wald Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1959-03-06 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1959 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 110 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Harriet Frank Jr.
NERFINISHED
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Irving Ravetch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInRegion | American South NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceMaterialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| stars | Yul Brynner 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: The Sound and the Fury (1959 film) Description of subject: The Sound and the Fury (1959 film) is a drama adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel, featuring Yul Brynner in a leading role in a story about a Southern family’s decline.
Referenced by (1)
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