Mr. and Mrs. Smith
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Mr. and Mrs. Smith is a 1941 screwball comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery as a married couple whose relationship is upended when they discover their union is not legally valid.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mr. and Mrs. Smith canonical | 2 |
| Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7767190 — 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: Mr. and Mrs. Smith Context triple: [Gene Raymond, notableWork, Mr. and Mrs. Smith]
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A.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a 2005 action-comedy film about a bored married couple who discover they are rival assassins, starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
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B.
Bob & Rose
Bob & Rose is a British television drama series created by Russell T Davies that explores an unconventional romantic relationship between a gay man and a straight woman.
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C.
He family
The He family is a prominent Chinese lineage known for its significant patronage of the arts and philanthropy, including founding the He Art Museum.
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D.
Mr. Right
Mr. Right is a 2015 action-romantic comedy film in which Sam Rockwell plays a eccentric hitman who falls in love while being pursued by his former employers.
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E.
The Bickersons
The Bickersons was a popular mid-20th-century American radio comedy series featuring Don Ameche and Frances Langford as a constantly bickering married couple, considered a forerunner of later domestic sitcoms.
- 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: Mr. and Mrs. Smith Target entity description: Mr. and Mrs. Smith is a 1941 screwball comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery as a married couple whose relationship is upended when they discover their union is not legally valid.
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A.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a 2005 action-comedy film about a bored married couple who discover they are rival assassins, starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
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B.
Bob & Rose
Bob & Rose is a British television drama series created by Russell T Davies that explores an unconventional romantic relationship between a gay man and a straight woman.
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C.
He family
The He family is a prominent Chinese lineage known for its significant patronage of the arts and philanthropy, including founding the He Art Museum.
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D.
Mr. Right
Mr. Right is a 2015 action-romantic comedy film in which Sam Rockwell plays a eccentric hitman who falls in love while being pursued by his former employers.
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E.
The Bickersons
The Bickersons was a popular mid-20th-century American radio comedy series featuring Don Ameche and Frances Langford as a constantly bickering married couple, considered a forerunner of later domestic sitcoms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
screwball comedy film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original story by Norman Krasna ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| castMember |
Betty Compson
NERFINISHED
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Carole Lombard NERFINISHED ⓘ Esther Dale NERFINISHED ⓘ Gene Raymond NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Carson NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucile Watson NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip Merivale NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Montgomery NERFINISHED ⓘ William Tracy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography | Harry Stradling Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Alfred Hitchcock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedInFormat | theatrical release ⓘ |
| distributor | RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ |
| editor | William Hamilton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
ⓘ
surface form:
Golden Age of Hollywood
|
| filmingLanguage | English ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| hasAlfredHitchcockCameo | true ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Mr. and Mrs. Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadCharacter |
Ann Smith
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCast |
Carole Lombard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Montgomery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Edward Ward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being Alfred Hitchcock's only pure screwball comedy feature ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A married couple discover their marriage is not legally valid, causing complications in their relationship. ⓘ |
| portrays | marital relationships ⓘ |
| producer | Harry E. Edington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | RKO Radio Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | January 31, 1941 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| runtime | 95 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Norman Krasna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| writer | Norman Krasna 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: Mr. and Mrs. Smith Description of subject: Mr. and Mrs. Smith is a 1941 screwball comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery as a married couple whose relationship is upended when they discover their union is not legally valid.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941 film)