The Maggie
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The Maggie is a 1954 British comedy film about a wily Scottish boat captain, produced by Ealing Studios and noted for its gentle humor and character-driven storytelling.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Maggie canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5778658 — 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 Maggie Context triple: [Michael Balcon, notableWork, The Maggie]
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A.
Maggie
Maggie is a common diminutive form of the given name Margaret, often used as a familiar or affectionate nickname.
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B.
Maggie
Maggie is a character portrayed by Australian actress Robin McLeavy, best known from the horror film "The Loved Ones."
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C.
Maggie
Maggie is a central character in the 1992 British ensemble comedy-drama film "Peter’s Friends," which follows a group of Cambridge university friends reuniting after a decade.
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D.
Maggie’s Plan
Maggie’s Plan is a 2015 romantic comedy film written and directed by Rebecca Miller, following a woman’s complicated attempt to have a child on her own that entangles her in an unconventional love triangle.
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E.
The Mother
"The Mother" is a socialist realist novel by Polish writer Wanda Wasilewska that portrays working-class struggle and political awakening in pre-war Eastern Europe.
- 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 Maggie Target entity description: The Maggie is a 1954 British comedy film about a wily Scottish boat captain, produced by Ealing Studios and noted for its gentle humor and character-driven storytelling.
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A.
Maggie
Maggie is a common diminutive form of the given name Margaret, often used as a familiar or affectionate nickname.
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B.
Maggie
Maggie is a character portrayed by Australian actress Robin McLeavy, best known from the horror film "The Loved Ones."
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C.
Maggie
Maggie is a central character in the 1992 British ensemble comedy-drama film "Peter’s Friends," which follows a group of Cambridge university friends reuniting after a decade.
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D.
Maggie’s Plan
Maggie’s Plan is a 2015 romantic comedy film written and directed by Rebecca Miller, following a woman’s complicated attempt to have a child on her own that entangles her in an unconventional love triangle.
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E.
The Mother
"The Mother" is a socialist realist novel by Polish writer Wanda Wasilewska that portrays working-class struggle and political awakening in pre-war Eastern Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| alternateTitle | High and Dry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alternateTitleRegion | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | story by Neil Paterson ⓘ |
| castMember |
Alex Mackenzie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Catherine Lacey NERFINISHED ⓘ Hubert Gregg NERFINISHED ⓘ James Copeland NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Calvin B. Marshall
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Captain Peter MacTaggart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterOrigin | Scottish captain (Captain MacTaggart) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Gordon Dines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticalReception |
noted for strong characterisation
ⓘ
praised for warmth and charm ⓘ |
| director | Alexander Mackendrick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
General Film Distributors
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Universal-International (United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Alan Osbiston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | post-war British cinema ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| filmingStudio | Ealing Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy film ⓘ |
| hasTheme | clash between traditional ways and modern business values ⓘ |
| leadActor | Paul Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | John Addison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | wily Scottish boat captain ⓘ |
| notedFor |
character-driven storytelling
ⓘ
gentle humor ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Ealing comedies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Monja Danischewsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Ealing Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1954 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 92 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Monja Danischewsky
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Rose NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Maggie 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 Maggie Description of subject: The Maggie is a 1954 British comedy film about a wily Scottish boat captain, produced by Ealing Studios and noted for its gentle humor and character-driven storytelling.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Michael Balcon