Lights of New York (1928 film)
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Lights of New York (1928 film) is an American crime drama notable as the first all-talking feature-length sound film in cinema history.
All labels observed (1)
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T97966 — 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: Lights of New York (1928 film) Context triple: [Vitaphone, usedInFilm, Lights of New York (1928 film)]
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Gentleman's Agreement
Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 American drama film that confronts antisemitism in postwar America, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Celeste Holm.
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Vitaphone
Vitaphone was an early sound-on-disc motion picture system developed by Warner Bros. that played a key role in the transition from silent films to “talkies” in the late 1920s.
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C.
The Paramount (Huntington, New York)
The Paramount is a popular live entertainment venue and concert hall located in Huntington, New York, known for hosting music performances, comedy shows, and other cultural events.
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D.
Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard is a famous Los Angeles thoroughfare known for its historic connection to the film industry, nightlife, and iconic cultural landmarks.
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E.
Broadway Boogie Woogie
Broadway Boogie Woogie is a late abstract painting by Piet Mondrian, celebrated for its vibrant grid of colored squares inspired by the rhythm and layout of New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lights of New York (1928 film) Target entity description: Lights of New York (1928 film) is an American crime drama notable as the first all-talking feature-length sound film in cinema history.
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A.
Gentleman's Agreement
Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 American drama film that confronts antisemitism in postwar America, directed by Elia Kazan and starring Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Celeste Holm.
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B.
Vitaphone
Vitaphone was an early sound-on-disc motion picture system developed by Warner Bros. that played a key role in the transition from silent films to “talkies” in the late 1920s.
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C.
The Paramount (Huntington, New York)
The Paramount is a popular live entertainment venue and concert hall located in Huntington, New York, known for hosting music performances, comedy shows, and other cultural events.
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D.
Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard is a famous Los Angeles thoroughfare known for its historic connection to the film industry, nightlife, and iconic cultural landmarks.
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E.
Broadway Boogie Woogie
Broadway Boogie Woogie is a late abstract painting by Piet Mondrian, celebrated for its vibrant grid of colored squares inspired by the rhythm and layout of New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Lights of New York (1928 film) Description of subject: Lights of New York (1928 film) is an American crime drama notable as the first all-talking feature-length sound film in cinema history.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.