The Good Companions (1933 film)
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The Good Companions (1933 film) is a British comedy-drama adaptation of J.B. Priestley’s novel, following a group of misfits who join a touring concert party in search of new beginnings.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Good Companions | 3 |
| The Good Companions (1933 film) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5778686 — 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 Good Companions (1933 film) Context triple: [Michael Balcon, notableWork, The Good Companions (1933 film)]
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A.
It Happened One Night
It Happened One Night is a classic 1934 romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra, celebrated for its witty dialogue, influential screwball style, and Academy Award–winning performances by Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.
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B.
Smilin’ Through (1932)
Smilin’ Through (1932) is a romantic drama film from Hollywood’s early sound era, best known as a prestige MGM production featuring themes of love, loss, and spiritual reunion.
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C.
The Divorcee (1930)
The Divorcee (1930) is a pre-Code American drama film, produced at MGM, that became notable for its frank treatment of marriage and infidelity and earned Norma Shearer an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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D.
For Me and My Gal
For Me and My Gal is a 1942 American musical film, co-starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly in his screen debut, about vaudeville performers whose careers and romance are affected by World War I.
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E.
The Lady Is a Tramp
"The Lady Is a Tramp" is a popular show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical "Babes in Arms," later becoming a jazz and pop standard widely recorded by major artists.
- 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 Good Companions (1933 film) Target entity description: The Good Companions (1933 film) is a British comedy-drama adaptation of J.B. Priestley’s novel, following a group of misfits who join a touring concert party in search of new beginnings.
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A.
It Happened One Night
It Happened One Night is a classic 1934 romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra, celebrated for its witty dialogue, influential screwball style, and Academy Award–winning performances by Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.
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B.
Smilin’ Through (1932)
Smilin’ Through (1932) is a romantic drama film from Hollywood’s early sound era, best known as a prestige MGM production featuring themes of love, loss, and spiritual reunion.
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C.
The Divorcee (1930)
The Divorcee (1930) is a pre-Code American drama film, produced at MGM, that became notable for its frank treatment of marriage and infidelity and earned Norma Shearer an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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D.
For Me and My Gal
For Me and My Gal is a 1942 American musical film, co-starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly in his screen debut, about vaudeville performers whose careers and romance are affected by World War I.
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E.
The Lady Is a Tramp
"The Lady Is a Tramp" is a popular show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical "Babes in Arms," later becoming a jazz and pop standard widely recorded by major artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | The Good Companions (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artDirector | Alfred Junge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Good Companions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | J. B. Priestley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Charles Van Enger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Victor Saville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Gaumont British Distributors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Ian Dalrymple NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingStudio | Islington Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama
ⓘ
musical film ⓘ |
| hasSetting | touring concert party ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicBy | Louis Levy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| novelPublicationYear | 1929 ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A group of misfits join a touring concert party in search of new beginnings. ⓘ |
| producer | Victor Saville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Gaumont British Picture Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1933-10-02 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1933 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 95 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Basil Dean
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
J. B. Priestley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Athene Seyler
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Basil Radford NERFINISHED ⓘ Edmund Gwenn NERFINISHED ⓘ Edna Best NERFINISHED ⓘ Edward Chapman NERFINISHED ⓘ Eliot Makeham NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Pettingell NERFINISHED ⓘ Gordon Harker NERFINISHED ⓘ Hay Petrie NERFINISHED ⓘ Hugh Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Jessie Matthews NERFINISHED ⓘ John Gielgud NERFINISHED ⓘ Mabel Poulton NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Glynne NERFINISHED ⓘ Moore Marriott NERFINISHED ⓘ Muriel Aked NERFINISHED ⓘ O. B. Clarence 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 Good Companions (1933 film) Description of subject: The Good Companions (1933 film) is a British comedy-drama adaptation of J.B. Priestley’s novel, following a group of misfits who join a touring concert party in search of new beginnings.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Michael Balcon
this entity surface form:
The Good Companions
this entity surface form:
The Good Companions
this entity surface form:
The Good Companions