Silent Movie
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Silent Movie is a 1976 slapstick comedy film by Mel Brooks that parodies the silent film era using visual gags and almost no spoken dialogue.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Silent Movie canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5494083 — 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: Silent Movie Context triple: [Mel Brooks, notableWork, Silent Movie]
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A.
The Jazz Singer (1927 film)
The Jazz Singer (1927 film) is a landmark American musical drama widely regarded as the first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, marking the dawn of the sound era in cinema.
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B.
American silent cinema
American silent cinema refers to the era of U.S. filmmaking from the late 19th century to the late 1920s, characterized by films without synchronized recorded sound that helped establish Hollywood as a global center of movie production and storytelling.
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C.
Celluloid
Celluloid is a lightweight, open-source media player for Linux that provides a simple GTK-based interface for the MPV playback engine.
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D.
Pre-Code Hollywood
Pre-Code Hollywood refers to the brief era in American cinema between the introduction of sound and the strict enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1934, known for its relatively frank depictions of sex, violence, and social taboos.
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E.
Vitaphone
Vitaphone was an early sound-on-disc motion picture system developed by Warner Bros. that played a key role in the transition from silent films to “talkies” in the late 1920s.
- 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: Silent Movie Target entity description: Silent Movie is a 1976 slapstick comedy film by Mel Brooks that parodies the silent film era using visual gags and almost no spoken dialogue.
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A.
The Jazz Singer (1927 film)
The Jazz Singer (1927 film) is a landmark American musical drama widely regarded as the first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, marking the dawn of the sound era in cinema.
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B.
American silent cinema
American silent cinema refers to the era of U.S. filmmaking from the late 19th century to the late 1920s, characterized by films without synchronized recorded sound that helped establish Hollywood as a global center of movie production and storytelling.
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C.
Celluloid
Celluloid is a lightweight, open-source media player for Linux that provides a simple GTK-based interface for the MPV playback engine.
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D.
Pre-Code Hollywood
Pre-Code Hollywood refers to the brief era in American cinema between the introduction of sound and the strict enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1934, known for its relatively frank depictions of sex, violence, and social taboos.
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E.
Vitaphone
Vitaphone was an early sound-on-disc motion picture system developed by Warner Bros. that played a key role in the transition from silent films to “talkies” in the late 1920s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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slapstick film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Paul Lohmann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Mel Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy |
John C. Howard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tom Vogt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCameo |
Anne Bancroft
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Burt Reynolds NERFINISHED ⓘ James Caan NERFINISHED ⓘ Liza Minnelli NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcel Marceau NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followsWork |
Blazing Saddles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Young Frankenstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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parody film ⓘ slapstick ⓘ |
| hasFilmPosterDesigner | John Alvin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | John Morris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
contains almost no spoken dialogue
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parody of silent cinema conventions ⓘ uses intertitles instead of spoken dialogue ⓘ |
| notableScene | only spoken word is “Non!” by Marcel Marceau ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Michael Hertzberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Crossbow Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1976-06-17 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 87 ⓘ |
| screenplayBy |
Mel Brooks
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ron Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ Rudy De Luca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | silent film era ⓘ |
| starring |
Bernadette Peters
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dom DeLuise NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold Gould NERFINISHED ⓘ Marty Feldman NERFINISHED ⓘ Mel Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ Ron Carey NERFINISHED ⓘ Sid Caesar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer |
Mel Brooks
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ron Clark NERFINISHED ⓘ Rudy De Luca 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: Silent Movie Description of subject: Silent Movie is a 1976 slapstick comedy film by Mel Brooks that parodies the silent film era using visual gags and almost no spoken dialogue.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.