Boys’ Ranch
E614714
Boys’ Ranch is a 1946 American family drama film about troubled boys finding discipline and purpose at a Texas ranch.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Boys’ Ranch canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6703365 — 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: Boys’ Ranch Context triple: [Jackie "Butch" Jenkins, notableWork, Boys’ Ranch]
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A.
The Wild Boys
The Wild Boys is a 1971 experimental novel by William S. Burroughs that depicts a violent, homoerotic, dystopian future ruled by anarchic youth gangs.
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B.
Boys Town
Boys Town is a 1938 American drama film starring Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney, inspired by the real-life Father Flanagan’s home for troubled boys in Nebraska.
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C.
Penrod
Penrod is a humorous 1914 novel by Booth Tarkington that follows the mischievous adventures of a young Midwestern boy and is considered a classic of American children's literature.
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D.
Twelve Oaks
Twelve Oaks is a film production company known for its involvement in the making of Terry Gilliam’s fantasy adventure film "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen."
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E.
El orfanato
El orfanato is a Spanish-language supernatural horror film about a woman who returns with her family to the orphanage where she was raised, only to encounter disturbing and mysterious events involving her young son.
- 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: Boys’ Ranch Target entity description: Boys’ Ranch is a 1946 American family drama film about troubled boys finding discipline and purpose at a Texas ranch.
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A.
The Wild Boys
The Wild Boys is a 1971 experimental novel by William S. Burroughs that depicts a violent, homoerotic, dystopian future ruled by anarchic youth gangs.
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B.
Boys Town
Boys Town is a 1938 American drama film starring Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney, inspired by the real-life Father Flanagan’s home for troubled boys in Nebraska.
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C.
Penrod
Penrod is a humorous 1914 novel by Booth Tarkington that follows the mischievous adventures of a young Midwestern boy and is considered a classic of American children's literature.
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D.
Twelve Oaks
Twelve Oaks is a film production company known for its involvement in the making of Terry Gilliam’s fantasy adventure film "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen."
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E.
El orfanato
El orfanato is a Spanish-language supernatural horror film about a woman who returns with her family to the orphanage where she was raised, only to encounter disturbing and mysterious events involving her young son.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | article by Tex O’Reilly ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Sidney Wagner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfFilmingLocation | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Roy Rowland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | George Hively NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterType | troubled boys ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
family film ⓘ |
| hasFormat | theatrical film ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
discipline
ⓘ
juvenile rehabilitation ⓘ purpose ⓘ |
| motionPictureRatingSystem | unrated (pre-MPAA ratings era) ⓘ |
| musicBy | Nathaniel Shilkret NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | Texas ranch ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Robert Sisk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | RKO Radio Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1946-11-01 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1946 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 96 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
George Bruce
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Ludwig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Darryl Hickman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edmond O’Brien NERFINISHED ⓘ Guinn "Big Boy" Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Jackie Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ Skip Homeier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | family ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | contemporary to 1940s ⓘ |
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: Boys’ Ranch Description of subject: Boys’ Ranch is a 1946 American family drama film about troubled boys finding discipline and purpose at a Texas ranch.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.