Madame X (1929 film)
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Madame X (1929 film) is a 1929 American pre-Code melodrama, based on the famous French play, about a woman whose scandalous past leads to tragic consequences when she is tried for murder defended by the son who does not know her identity.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madame X (1929 film) canonical | 2 |
| Madame X (1966 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6884261 — 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: Madame X (1929 film) Context triple: [Tully Marshall, notableWork, Madame X (1929 film)]
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A.
Madame X
Madame X is a famous 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent, renowned for its provocative depiction of Parisian socialite Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau and the scandal it caused at the Paris Salon.
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B.
The Mysterious Lady (1928 film)
The Mysterious Lady (1928 film) is a silent romantic spy drama starring Greta Garbo as a seductive Austrian agent entangled in love and espionage on the eve of World War I.
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C.
Madam
"Madam" is a formal term of address for a woman, often used to show respect or politeness in social, professional, or official contexts.
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D.
Mad Love (1935 film)
Mad Love (1935 film) is a 1935 horror thriller directed by Karl Freund, noted for Peter Lorre’s chilling performance as an obsessed surgeon whose unrequited love drives him to macabre experiments.
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E.
Mother (1926 film)
Mother (1926 film) is a seminal Soviet silent drama directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, renowned for its innovative use of montage and its powerful depiction of revolutionary struggle.
- 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: Madame X (1929 film) Target entity description: Madame X (1929 film) is a 1929 American pre-Code melodrama, based on the famous French play, about a woman whose scandalous past leads to tragic consequences when she is tried for murder defended by the son who does not know her identity.
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A.
Madame X
Madame X is a famous 1884 portrait by John Singer Sargent, renowned for its provocative depiction of Parisian socialite Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau and the scandal it caused at the Paris Salon.
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B.
The Mysterious Lady (1928 film)
The Mysterious Lady (1928 film) is a silent romantic spy drama starring Greta Garbo as a seductive Austrian agent entangled in love and espionage on the eve of World War I.
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C.
Madam
"Madam" is a formal term of address for a woman, often used to show respect or politeness in social, professional, or official contexts.
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D.
Mad Love (1935 film)
Mad Love (1935 film) is a 1935 horror thriller directed by Karl Freund, noted for Peter Lorre’s chilling performance as an obsessed surgeon whose unrequited love drives him to macabre experiments.
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E.
Mother (1926 film)
Mother (1926 film) is a seminal Soviet silent drama directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, renowned for its innovative use of montage and its powerful depiction of revolutionary struggle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
French play
ⓘ
Madame X (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterIn | story of a woman with a scandalous past ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | William H. Daniels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Lionel Barrymore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | pre-Code Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmIndustry | Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | earlier silent film adaptations of Madame X ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
melodrama ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationSourceAuthor | Alexandre Bisson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLeadActor | Ruth Chatterton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | mother and son relationship ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotElement |
defense by her son who does not know her identity
ⓘ
woman tried for murder ⓘ |
| producer | Irving Thalberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1929 ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1920s ⓘ |
| runtimeApprox | about 95 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Bayard Veiller
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Willis Goldbeck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | contemporary to late 1920s ⓘ |
| stars |
Carroll Nye
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry B. Walthall NERFINISHED ⓘ Holmes Herbert NERFINISHED ⓘ Lewis Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ Raymond Hackett NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruth Chatterton NERFINISHED ⓘ Sidney Toler NERFINISHED ⓘ Ulrich Haupt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
maternal love
ⓘ
redemption ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ |
| title | Madame X 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: Madame X (1929 film) Description of subject: Madame X (1929 film) is a 1929 American pre-Code melodrama, based on the famous French play, about a woman whose scandalous past leads to tragic consequences when she is tried for murder defended by the son who does not know her identity.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Madame X (1966 film)