The Letter (1929 film)
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The Letter (1929 film) is an early American drama film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s play, notable as a pre-Code production that preceded the more famous 1940 version starring Bette Davis.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Letter (1940 film) | 3 |
| The Letter (1929 film) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5514984 — 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 Letter (1929 film) Context triple: [The Letter (1940 film), previousAdaptation, The Letter (1929 film)]
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A.
The Letter
The Letter is a 1940 film noir drama starring Bette Davis as a woman accused of murder in colonial Malaya, renowned for her powerful performance and the film’s tense, atmospheric storytelling.
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B.
The Letter
The Letter is an 1890–91 color drypoint and aquatint print by American Impressionist Mary Cassatt, depicting a woman reading a letter in an intimate domestic setting and reflecting her focus on the private lives of women.
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C.
The Letter
"The Letter" is a 17th-century genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Gerard ter Borch, celebrated for its intimate domestic scene and subtle psychological tension surrounding the act of reading a letter.
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D.
The Letter Writer (attributed)
The Letter Writer (attributed) is a genre painting traditionally linked to Dutch Golden Age artist Jan Verkolje, depicting an intimate scene of letter writing in a refined interior.
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E.
The Scarlet Letter (1934 film)
The Scarlet Letter (1934 film) is an American drama adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel, focusing on the themes of sin, guilt, and social judgment in Puritan New England.
- 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 Letter (1929 film) Target entity description: The Letter (1929 film) is an early American drama film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s play, notable as a pre-Code production that preceded the more famous 1940 version starring Bette Davis.
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A.
The Letter
The Letter is a 1940 film noir drama starring Bette Davis as a woman accused of murder in colonial Malaya, renowned for her powerful performance and the film’s tense, atmospheric storytelling.
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B.
The Letter
The Letter is an 1890–91 color drypoint and aquatint print by American Impressionist Mary Cassatt, depicting a woman reading a letter in an intimate domestic setting and reflecting her focus on the private lives of women.
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C.
The Letter
"The Letter" is a 17th-century genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Gerard ter Borch, celebrated for its intimate domestic scene and subtle psychological tension surrounding the act of reading a letter.
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D.
The Letter Writer (attributed)
The Letter Writer (attributed) is a genre painting traditionally linked to Dutch Golden Age artist Jan Verkolje, depicting an intimate scene of letter writing in a refined interior.
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E.
The Scarlet Letter (1934 film)
The Scarlet Letter (1934 film) is an American drama adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic novel, focusing on the themes of sin, guilt, and social judgment in Puritan New England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Letter (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | W. Somerset Maugham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| castMember |
Herbert Marshall
NERFINISHED
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Irene Browne NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeanne Eagels NERFINISHED ⓘ Lady Tsen Mei NERFINISHED ⓘ O. P. Heggie NERFINISHED ⓘ Reginald Owen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterIn | The Letter (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Arthur L. Todd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Jean de Limur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| era | early sound era ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Geoffrey Hammond
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Leslie Crosbie NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Crosbie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Letter (1940 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasLaterAdaptation | The Letter (1940 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
betrayal
ⓘ
colonialism ⓘ jealousy ⓘ |
| isPreCodeFilm | true ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
adultery
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crime of passion ⓘ murder trial ⓘ |
| notableAs |
early sound adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s play
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pre-Code Hollywood production ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Letter (1927 play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Monty Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1929-04-20 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1929 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 65 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Garrett Fort
NERFINISHED
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Monty Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | British Malaya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars | Jeanne Eagels 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: The Letter (1929 film) Description of subject: The Letter (1929 film) is an early American drama film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s play, notable as a pre-Code production that preceded the more famous 1940 version starring Bette Davis.
Referenced by (5)
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The Letter (1940 film)
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The Letter (1940 film)
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The Letter (1940 film)
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The Letter (1940 film)