David Copperfield (1935 film)
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David Copperfield (1935 film) is a 1935 American adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel, produced by MGM and noted for its star-studded cast and faithful Victorian-era storytelling.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Copperfield (1935 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6676790 — 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)
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Target entity: David Copperfield (1935 film) Context triple: [Philip St. John Basil Rathbone, appearedIn, David Copperfield (1935 film)]
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David Copperfield (1999 TV film)
David Copperfield (1999 TV film) is a British television adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel, notable for its acclaimed cast and for featuring Daniel Radcliffe in his first screen role.
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Pygmalion (1938 film)
Pygmalion (1938 film) is a British romantic comedy-drama adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play, best known for its witty exploration of class and language and for inspiring the later musical My Fair Lady.
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
"Goodbye, Mr. Chips" is a classic 1939 British drama film, based on James Hilton’s novella, about the life and career of a beloved schoolteacher at an English boys’ boarding school.
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D.
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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E.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield is a classic 1850 novel by Charles Dickens that follows the life, hardships, and personal growth of its eponymous protagonist from childhood to maturity.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Copperfield (1935 film) Target entity description: David Copperfield (1935 film) is a 1935 American adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel, produced by MGM and noted for its star-studded cast and faithful Victorian-era storytelling.
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A.
David Copperfield (1999 TV film)
David Copperfield (1999 TV film) is a British television adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel, notable for its acclaimed cast and for featuring Daniel Radcliffe in his first screen role.
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B.
Pygmalion (1938 film)
Pygmalion (1938 film) is a British romantic comedy-drama adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play, best known for its witty exploration of class and language and for inspiring the later musical My Fair Lady.
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C.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
"Goodbye, Mr. Chips" is a classic 1939 British drama film, based on James Hilton’s novella, about the life and career of a beloved schoolteacher at an English boys’ boarding school.
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D.
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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E.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield is a classic 1850 novel by Charles Dickens that follows the life, hardships, and personal growth of its eponymous protagonist from childhood to maturity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| artDirectionBy | Cedric Gibbons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | David Copperfield (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Charles Dickens NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Oliver T. Marsh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| costumeDesignBy | Adrian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | George Cukor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| editedBy | Robert J. Kern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eraDepicted | 19th century England ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
literary adaptation ⓘ period drama ⓘ |
| musicBy | Herbert Stothart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation |
London
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yarmouth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
faithful adaptation of the novel
ⓘ
star-studded cast ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portraysCharacter |
Agnes Wickfield
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Betsey Trotwood NERFINISHED ⓘ David Copperfield NERFINISHED ⓘ Dora Spenlow NERFINISHED ⓘ Little Em'ly NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Dick NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Murdstone NERFINISHED ⓘ Peggotty NERFINISHED ⓘ Uriah Heep NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilkins Micawber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | David O. Selznick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1935-01-18 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1935 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 133 ⓘ |
| setInCountry | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Victorian era ⓘ |
| stars |
Basil Rathbone
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edna May Oliver NERFINISHED ⓘ Elsa Lanchester NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Lawton NERFINISHED ⓘ Freddie Bartholomew NERFINISHED ⓘ Lewis Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ Lionel Barrymore NERFINISHED ⓘ Madge Evans NERFINISHED ⓘ Maureen O'Sullivan NERFINISHED ⓘ Roland Young NERFINISHED ⓘ W. C. Fields 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: David Copperfield (1935 film) Description of subject: David Copperfield (1935 film) is a 1935 American adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel, produced by MGM and noted for its star-studded cast and faithful Victorian-era storytelling.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Philip St. John Basil Rathbone