The Little Minister
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The Little Minister is a 1921 silent drama film adaptation of J. M. Barrie’s novel, starring May McAvoy in a leading role.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Little Minister (1934 film) | 3 |
| The Little Minister canonical | 2 |
| The Little Minister (1921 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7076223 — 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 Little Minister Context triple: [May McAvoy, notableWork, The Little Minister]
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A.
The Reverend
"The Reverend" is a Christian clerical honorific commonly used to address or refer to ordained ministers or members of the clergy.
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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.
The Light of the World
The Light of the World is a famous religious painting by William Holman Hunt that depicts Christ knocking at a door, emblematic of the Pre-Raphaelite movement’s detailed realism and spiritual symbolism.
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D.
The Reverend Mr. Black
"The Reverend Mr. Black" is a 1963 country-folk song, popularized by The Kingston Trio, that tells a moralistic story about a preacher confronting injustice and personal redemption.
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E.
The Errand Boy
The Errand Boy is a 1961 American comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, in which he plays a bumbling studio gofer causing chaos behind the scenes in Hollywood.
- 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 Little Minister Target entity description: The Little Minister is a 1921 silent drama film adaptation of J. M. Barrie’s novel, starring May McAvoy in a leading role.
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A.
The Reverend
"The Reverend" is a Christian clerical honorific commonly used to address or refer to ordained ministers or members of the clergy.
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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.
The Light of the World
The Light of the World is a famous religious painting by William Holman Hunt that depicts Christ knocking at a door, emblematic of the Pre-Raphaelite movement’s detailed realism and spiritual symbolism.
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D.
The Reverend Mr. Black
"The Reverend Mr. Black" is a 1963 country-folk song, popularized by The Kingston Trio, that tells a moralistic story about a preacher confronting injustice and personal redemption.
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E.
The Errand Boy
The Errand Boy is a 1961 American comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, in which he plays a bumbling studio gofer causing chaos behind the scenes in Hollywood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film actress
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novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| author | J. M. Barrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Little Minister (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | J. M. Barrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationSourceCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCastMember | May McAvoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
drama
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romantic drama ⓘ |
| isAdaptationOf | The Little Minister (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | American silent cinema ⓘ |
| language | Silent ⓘ |
| narrativeMedium | intertitles ⓘ |
| productionEra | silent era ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1921 ⓘ |
| stars | May McAvoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Little Minister 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 Little Minister Description of subject: The Little Minister is a 1921 silent drama film adaptation of J. M. Barrie’s novel, starring May McAvoy in a leading role.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Little Minister (1934 film)
this entity surface form:
The Little Minister (1934 film)
this entity surface form:
The Little Minister (1921 film)
this entity surface form:
The Little Minister (1934 film)