The Divorcee
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The Divorcee is a 1930 pre-Code American drama film starring Norma Shearer that explores marriage, infidelity, and gender double standards, and earned Shearer an Academy Award for Best Actress.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Divorcee canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7711182 — 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 Divorcee Context triple: [Blanche Sewell, workedOn, The Divorcee]
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A.
The Divorce
The Divorce is the English title of Surah At-Talaq, a chapter of the Qur’an that outlines Islamic regulations and guidance concerning divorce and related family matters.
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B.
The Marrying Man
The Marrying Man is a 1991 romantic comedy film starring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, centered on a playboy whose repeated marriages to the same woman lead to a series of comedic misadventures.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
The Marriage Mill
The Marriage Mill is a historic nickname for Crown Point, Indiana, reflecting its past reputation as a popular destination for quick and easy weddings.
- 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 Divorcee Target entity description: The Divorcee is a 1930 pre-Code American drama film starring Norma Shearer that explores marriage, infidelity, and gender double standards, and earned Shearer an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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A.
The Divorce
The Divorce is the English title of Surah At-Talaq, a chapter of the Qur’an that outlines Islamic regulations and guidance concerning divorce and related family matters.
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B.
The Marrying Man
The Marrying Man is a 1991 romantic comedy film starring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, centered on a playboy whose repeated marriages to the same woman lead to a series of comedic misadventures.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
The Marriage Mill
The Marriage Mill is a historic nickname for Crown Point, Indiana, reflecting its past reputation as a popular destination for quick and easy weddings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Actress ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Ex-Wife
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
novel by Ursula Parrott ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Norbert Brodine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfRelease |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Robert Z. Leonard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discussesTheme |
marital fidelity
ⓘ
sexual double standard ⓘ women's independence ⓘ |
| distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| editedBy | Blanche Sewell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingStudio | MGM Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | silent film era of Hollywood ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasAwardedPerson | Norma Shearer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIMDbId | tt0020827 ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
Jerry Martin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ted Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motionPictureRatingSystem | pre-Code Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Director
ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Picture ⓘ Academy Award for Best Writing, Adaptation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | pre-Code Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| producer | Hunt Stromberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1930-04-19 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1930 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 84 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
John Meehan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nick Grindé NERFINISHED ⓘ Zelda Sears NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | contemporary 1930s ⓘ |
| starring |
Chester Morris
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Conrad Nagel NERFINISHED ⓘ Norma Shearer NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Montgomery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
gender double standards
ⓘ
infidelity ⓘ marriage ⓘ |
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 Divorcee Description of subject: The Divorcee is a 1930 pre-Code American drama film starring Norma Shearer that explores marriage, infidelity, and gender double standards, and earned Shearer an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.