The Bigamist
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The Bigamist is a 1953 American film noir drama directed by and starring Ida Lupino, featuring Joan Fontaine in a story about a traveling salesman secretly married to two women.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Bigamist canonical | 4 |
| The Bigamist (1953 film screenplay) | 1 |
| The Bigamist (screenplay) | 1 |
| The Bigamist (television adaptation) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6711785 — 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 Bigamist Context triple: [Joan Fontaine, notableWork, The Bigamist]
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A.
Four Wives
Four Wives is a 1939 American drama film, directed by Michael Curtiz, that continues the story of the Lane sisters from Four Daughters.
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B.
The Gay Divorcee
The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, celebrated for its elegant dance sequences and classic songs.
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C.
The Bride
"The Bride" is a film project written by Scottish screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns, known for her work on dark, character-driven genre stories.
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D.
The Bride
The Bride is the vengeful, katana-wielding former assassin and central protagonist of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill films, known for her relentless quest to destroy her old hit squad and their leader, Bill.
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E.
My Wife and I
"My Wife and I" is a lesser-known domestic and social novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores marriage, morality, and middle-class life in the 19th century.
- 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 Bigamist Target entity description: The Bigamist is a 1953 American film noir drama directed by and starring Ida Lupino, featuring Joan Fontaine in a story about a traveling salesman secretly married to two women.
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A.
Four Wives
Four Wives is a 1939 American drama film, directed by Michael Curtiz, that continues the story of the Lane sisters from Four Daughters.
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B.
The Gay Divorcee
The Gay Divorcee is a 1934 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, celebrated for its elegant dance sequences and classic songs.
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C.
The Bride
The Bride is the vengeful, katana-wielding former assassin and central protagonist of Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill films, known for her relentless quest to destroy her old hit squad and their leader, Bill.
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D.
The Bride
"The Bride" is a film project written by Scottish screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns, known for her work on dark, character-driven genre stories.
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E.
My Wife and I
"My Wife and I" is a lesser-known domestic and social novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores marriage, morality, and middle-class life in the 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| aspectRatio | 1.37:1 ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | George E. Diskant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Ida Lupino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributor | RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Douglas Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
film noir ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Edmond O'Brien
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edmund Gwenn NERFINISHED ⓘ Ida Lupino NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Fontaine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
bigamy
ⓘ
deception ⓘ marriage ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | traveling salesman ⓘ |
| musicBy | Leigh Harline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being directed by and starring Ida Lupino ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A traveling salesman is secretly married to two women. ⓘ |
| producer | Collier Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | The Filmakers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1953-12-03 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1953 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 80 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Collier Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1950s ⓘ |
| soundMix | mono ⓘ |
| starring |
Edmond O'Brien
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edmund Gwenn NERFINISHED ⓘ Ida Lupino NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Fontaine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyBy | Larry Marcus 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 Bigamist Description of subject: The Bigamist is a 1953 American film noir drama directed by and starring Ida Lupino, featuring Joan Fontaine in a story about a traveling salesman secretly married to two women.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Bigamist (screenplay)
this entity surface form:
The Bigamist (1953 film screenplay)
this entity surface form:
The Bigamist (television adaptation)