The Scarlet Empress
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The Scarlet Empress is a 1934 historical drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Marlene Dietrich as Catherine the Great of Russia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Scarlet Empress canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7025491 — 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 Scarlet Empress Context triple: [Travis Banton, designedForFilm, The Scarlet Empress]
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A.
The Great Man's Lady
The Great Man's Lady is a 1942 American historical drama film starring Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck that chronicles a woman's behind-the-scenes influence on a prominent frontier statesman's rise to power.
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B.
The Heiress
The Heiress is an 18th-century comedic play by British general and playwright John Burgoyne, best known for its satirical portrayal of wealth, marriage, and social ambition in Georgian high society.
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C.
The Heiress
The Heiress is a 1949 American drama film, adapted from a stage play based on Henry James's novel "Washington Square," renowned for Olivia de Havilland's Academy Award-winning performance.
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D.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel set in 1870s New York high society that explores themes of social convention, duty, and repressed desire.
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E.
The Empress
The Empress is a historic luxury hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, renowned for its grand Edwardian architecture and traditional afternoon tea service.
- 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 Scarlet Empress Target entity description: The Scarlet Empress is a 1934 historical drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Marlene Dietrich as Catherine the Great of Russia.
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A.
The Great Man's Lady
The Great Man's Lady is a 1942 American historical drama film starring Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck that chronicles a woman's behind-the-scenes influence on a prominent frontier statesman's rise to power.
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B.
The Heiress
The Heiress is an 18th-century comedic play by British general and playwright John Burgoyne, best known for its satirical portrayal of wealth, marriage, and social ambition in Georgian high society.
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C.
The Heiress
The Heiress is a 1949 American drama film, adapted from a stage play based on Henry James's novel "Washington Square," renowned for Olivia de Havilland's Academy Award-winning performance.
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D.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel set in 1870s New York high society that explores themes of social convention, duty, and repressed desire.
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E.
The Empress
The Empress is a historic luxury hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, renowned for its grand Edwardian architecture and traditional afternoon tea service.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | life of Catherine the Great ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| castMember |
C. Aubrey Smith
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gavin Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ Jane Darwell NERFINISHED ⓘ John Lodge NERFINISHED ⓘ Louise Dresser NERFINISHED ⓘ Marlene Dietrich NERFINISHED ⓘ Olga Baclanova NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruthelma Stevens NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Jaffe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Bert Glennon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Josef von Sternberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editor | Sam Winston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | The Song of Songs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical film
ⓘ
historical drama ⓘ |
| hasFilmPoster | The Scarlet Empress theatrical release poster ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActor | Marlene Dietrich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Catherine the Great NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | W. Franke Harling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
expressionistic set design
ⓘ
stylized depiction of Imperial Russia ⓘ |
| partOf | collaborations between Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich ⓘ |
| portrays |
Catherine II of Russia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Peter III of Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Josef von Sternberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 1934-09-21 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1934 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 104 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Eleanor McGeary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInCountry | Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| starred | Marlene Dietrich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studioEra | Pre-Code Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Scarlet Empress 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: The Scarlet Empress Description of subject: The Scarlet Empress is a 1934 historical drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Marlene Dietrich as Catherine the Great of Russia.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.