Academy Award for Best Actor for "My Man Godfrey"
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The Academy Award for Best Actor for "My Man Godfrey" is the Oscar nomination recognizing William Powell's acclaimed comedic performance as the eccentric butler Godfrey in the 1936 screwball comedy film.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Academy Award for Best Actor for "My Man Godfrey" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7038723 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Academy Award for Best Actor for "My Man Godfrey" Context triple: [William Powell, nominatedFor, Academy Award for Best Actor for "My Man Godfrey"]
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A.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Farmer’s Daughter"
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Farmer’s Daughter" is an Oscar nomination recognizing a standout supporting performance in the 1947 political comedy-drama film "The Farmer’s Daughter."
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B.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Great Dictator
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for *The Great Dictator* is the Oscar nomination recognizing Jack Oakie’s acclaimed comedic performance in Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 satirical film.
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C.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 'Come and Get It'
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Come and Get It" is the Oscar that recognized Walter Brennan’s acclaimed supporting performance in the 1936 film adaptation of Edna Ferber’s novel.
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D.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 'The Westerner'
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Westerner" is the Oscar given to Walter Brennan for his acclaimed supporting performance in the 1940 Western film "The Westerner."
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E.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Lust for Life
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Lust for Life" is the Oscar given to Anthony Quinn for his acclaimed portrayal of painter Paul Gauguin in the 1956 biographical film about Vincent van Gogh.
- 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: Academy Award for Best Actor for "My Man Godfrey" Target entity description: The Academy Award for Best Actor for "My Man Godfrey" is the Oscar nomination recognizing William Powell's acclaimed comedic performance as the eccentric butler Godfrey in the 1936 screwball comedy film.
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A.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Farmer’s Daughter"
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Farmer’s Daughter" is an Oscar nomination recognizing a standout supporting performance in the 1947 political comedy-drama film "The Farmer’s Daughter."
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B.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Great Dictator
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for *The Great Dictator* is the Oscar nomination recognizing Jack Oakie’s acclaimed comedic performance in Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 satirical film.
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C.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 'Come and Get It'
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Come and Get It" is the Oscar that recognized Walter Brennan’s acclaimed supporting performance in the 1936 film adaptation of Edna Ferber’s novel.
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D.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 'The Westerner'
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Westerner" is the Oscar given to Walter Brennan for his acclaimed supporting performance in the 1940 Western film "The Westerner."
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E.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Lust for Life
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "Lust for Life" is the Oscar given to Anthony Quinn for his acclaimed portrayal of painter Paul Gauguin in the 1956 biographical film about Vincent van Gogh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Academy Award for Best Actor nomination
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film award nomination ⓘ |
| associatedAward | Academy Awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardCategory | Academy Award for Best Actor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardCeremony | 9th Academy Awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterDescription | eccentric butler ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| didWin | no ⓘ |
| filmCountryOfOrigin | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfNominatedWork | Gregory La Cava NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmGenre | screwball comedy ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| filmStudio | Universal Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| nominatedPerson | William Powell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedWork | My Man Godfrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | recognizing William Powell's acclaimed performance ⓘ |
| outcome | nomination ⓘ |
| partOfFilmographyOf | William Powell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performanceType | comedic performance ⓘ |
| presentedBy | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ⓘ |
| recognizes | acting in a leading role ⓘ |
| roleRecognized | Godfrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfNomination | 1937 ⓘ |
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: Academy Award for Best Actor for "My Man Godfrey" Description of subject: The Academy Award for Best Actor for "My Man Godfrey" is the Oscar nomination recognizing William Powell's acclaimed comedic performance as the eccentric butler Godfrey in the 1936 screwball comedy film.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.