The Four Feathers (1939 film)
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The Four Feathers (1939 film) is a classic British Technicolor adventure drama based on A.E.W. Mason’s novel, following a young officer accused of cowardice who seeks redemption during the Mahdist War in Sudan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Four Feathers (1939 film) canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5584854 — 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 Four Feathers (1939 film) Context triple: [C. Aubrey Smith, notableWork, The Four Feathers (1939 film)]
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The Four Feathers (1929 film)
The Four Feathers (1929 film) is a silent adventure drama adaptation of A.E.W. Mason’s novel about a British officer accused of cowardice, notable as an early epic directed by Merian C. Cooper.
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The Four Feathers
The Four Feathers is a 2002 war drama film, based on A.E.W. Mason’s novel, that follows a young British officer who seeks redemption after being accused of cowardice for resigning his commission before battle.
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C.
Random Harvest
Random Harvest is a 1942 romantic drama film, based on James Hilton’s novel, renowned for its amnesia-driven love story and considered one of director Mervyn LeRoy’s most enduring works.
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D.
Under Capricorn
Under Capricorn is a 1949 historical drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, set in colonial Australia and starring Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten.
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E.
The Painted Veil (1934 film)
The Painted Veil (1934 film) is an American romantic drama starring Greta Garbo, based on W. Somerset Maugham’s novel about a troubled marriage set against a cholera epidemic in China.
- 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 Four Feathers (1939 film) Target entity description: The Four Feathers (1939 film) is a classic British Technicolor adventure drama based on A.E.W. Mason’s novel, following a young officer accused of cowardice who seeks redemption during the Mahdist War in Sudan.
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A.
The Four Feathers (1929 film)
The Four Feathers (1929 film) is a silent adventure drama adaptation of A.E.W. Mason’s novel about a British officer accused of cowardice, notable as an early epic directed by Merian C. Cooper.
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B.
The Four Feathers
The Four Feathers is a 2002 war drama film, based on A.E.W. Mason’s novel, that follows a young British officer who seeks redemption after being accused of cowardice for resigning his commission before battle.
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C.
Random Harvest
Random Harvest is a 1942 romantic drama film, based on James Hilton’s novel, renowned for its amnesia-driven love story and considered one of director Mervyn LeRoy’s most enduring works.
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D.
Under Capricorn
Under Capricorn is a 1949 historical drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, set in colonial Australia and starring Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten.
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E.
The Painted Veil (1934 film)
The Painted Veil (1934 film) is an American romantic drama starring Greta Garbo, based on W. Somerset Maugham’s novel about a troubled marriage set against a cholera epidemic in China.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Technicolor film
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film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | A. E. W. Mason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Four Feathers (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Georges Périnal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Technicolor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfRelease | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Zoltan Korda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
London Films
NERFINISHED
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United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Henry Cornelius NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingProcess | three-strip Technicolor ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure
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drama ⓘ war ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Harry Faversham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
NERFINISHED
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Miklós Rózsa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the best-known adaptations of A. E. W. Mason’s novel
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lavish Technicolor photography ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A young British officer accused of cowardice seeks redemption during the Mahdist War in Sudan. ⓘ |
| producer | Alexander Korda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | London Film Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1939-04-20 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1939 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 129 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Lajos Biró
NERFINISHED
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R. C. Sherriff NERFINISHED ⓘ Zoltan Korda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setDuring | Mahdist War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Sudan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Allan Jeayes
NERFINISHED
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C. Aubrey Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Donald Gray NERFINISHED ⓘ Frederick Culley NERFINISHED ⓘ Howard Marion-Crawford NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ John Clements NERFINISHED ⓘ John Laurie NERFINISHED ⓘ June Duprez NERFINISHED ⓘ Ralph Richardson 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 Four Feathers (1939 film) Description of subject: The Four Feathers (1939 film) is a classic British Technicolor adventure drama based on A.E.W. Mason’s novel, following a young officer accused of cowardice who seeks redemption during the Mahdist War in Sudan.
Referenced by (4)
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