The Skin Game
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The Skin Game is a 1920 play by English writer John Galsworthy that explores class conflict and moral compromise through a bitter feud between an old aristocratic family and a nouveau riche industrialist.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Skin Game canonical | 5 |
| The Skin Game (1931 film) | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T465446 — 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 Skin Game Context triple: [John Galsworthy, notableWork, The Skin Game]
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A.
The Pleasure of His Company
The Pleasure of His Company is a 1961 romantic comedy film featuring Fred Astaire as a charming, sophisticated playboy who returns to reconnect with his estranged daughter on the eve of her wedding.
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B.
The Wings of the Dove
The Wings of the Dove is a 1902 novel by Henry James that explores complex moral and emotional entanglements surrounding love, wealth, and betrayal in Edwardian society.
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C.
The Paradine Case
The Paradine Case is a 1947 courtroom drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, in which Gregory Peck plays a defense attorney entangled in a complex murder trial involving a beautiful widow.
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D.
The Aspern Papers
The Aspern Papers is a novella by Henry James that explores themes of literary obsession, secrecy, and moral ambiguity through a scholar’s attempt to obtain the private papers of a deceased poet from his reclusive former lover.
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E.
The Lady of Pleasure
The Lady of Pleasure is a Caroline-era comedy play by James Shirley that satirizes the excesses and moral corruption of the English aristocracy.
- 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 Skin Game Target entity description: The Skin Game is a 1920 play by English writer John Galsworthy that explores class conflict and moral compromise through a bitter feud between an old aristocratic family and a nouveau riche industrialist.
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A.
The Pleasure of His Company
The Pleasure of His Company is a 1961 romantic comedy film featuring Fred Astaire as a charming, sophisticated playboy who returns to reconnect with his estranged daughter on the eve of her wedding.
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B.
The Wings of the Dove
The Wings of the Dove is a 1902 novel by Henry James that explores complex moral and emotional entanglements surrounding love, wealth, and betrayal in Edwardian society.
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C.
The Paradine Case
The Paradine Case is a 1947 courtroom drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, in which Gregory Peck plays a defense attorney entangled in a complex murder trial involving a beautiful widow.
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D.
The Aspern Papers
The Aspern Papers is a novella by Henry James that explores themes of literary obsession, secrecy, and moral ambiguity through a scholar’s attempt to obtain the private papers of a deceased poet from his reclusive former lover.
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E.
The Lady of Pleasure
The Lady of Pleasure is a Caroline-era comedy play by James Shirley that satirizes the excesses and moral corruption of the English aristocracy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
play ⓘ theatrical work ⓘ |
| author | John Galsworthy ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Skin Game self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Alfred Hitchcock ⓘ |
| explores | tension between traditional landowning classes and industrial capitalism ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterType |
nouveau riche industrialist
ⓘ
old aristocratic family ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1920 ⓘ |
| form | three-act play ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
social drama ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Skin Game
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Skin Game (1931 film)
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| literaryMovement | realism ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
class conflict
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moral compromise ⓘ social change ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | John Galsworthy's dramatic works ⓘ |
| periodOfWork | early 20th century ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A bitter feud erupts between an old aristocratic family and a nouveau riche industrialist, exposing class tensions and moral compromises. ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1920 ⓘ |
| setIn | England ⓘ |
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 Skin Game Description of subject: The Skin Game is a 1920 play by English writer John Galsworthy that explores class conflict and moral compromise through a bitter feud between an old aristocratic family and a nouveau riche industrialist.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Skin Game (1931 film)
subject surface form:
The Skin Game (1931 film)
subject surface form:
Michael Balcon
this entity surface form:
The Skin Game (1931 film)
this entity surface form:
The Skin Game (1931 film)