Too Many Husbands
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Too Many Husbands is a 1940 American screwball comedy film, based on a play, about a woman whose life is upended when her presumed-dead husband returns to find she has remarried.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Too Many Husbands canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9088083 — 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: Too Many Husbands Context triple: [Fred MacMurray, notableWork, Too Many Husbands]
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A.
The Five Wives
The Five Wives are a group of captive women in Mad Max: Fury Road who serve as the tyrant Immortan Joe’s prized breeders and become central to Imperator Furiosa’s rebellion.
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B.
The Other Woman
The Other Woman is a 2014 American comedy film about three women who discover they are all romantically involved with the same man and team up to get revenge.
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C.
A Letter to Five Wives
A Letter to Five Wives is the original source work that inspired the classic 1949 film "A Letter to Three Wives."
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D.
The Wedding Night
The Wedding Night is a 1935 romantic drama film directed by King Vidor, starring Gary Cooper and Anna Sten, that explores a troubled marriage and a forbidden love in rural New England.
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E.
My First Wife
My First Wife is a 1984 Australian drama film directed by Paul Cox that explores the emotional breakdown of a marriage.
- 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: Too Many Husbands Target entity description: Too Many Husbands is a 1940 American screwball comedy film, based on a play, about a woman whose life is upended when her presumed-dead husband returns to find she has remarried.
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A.
The Five Wives
The Five Wives are a group of captive women in Mad Max: Fury Road who serve as the tyrant Immortan Joe’s prized breeders and become central to Imperator Furiosa’s rebellion.
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B.
The Other Woman
The Other Woman is a 2014 American comedy film about three women who discover they are all romantically involved with the same man and team up to get revenge.
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C.
A Letter to Five Wives
A Letter to Five Wives is the original source work that inspired the classic 1949 film "A Letter to Three Wives."
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D.
The Wedding Night
The Wedding Night is a 1935 romantic drama film directed by King Vidor, starring Gary Cooper and Anna Sten, that explores a troubled marriage and a forbidden love in rural New England.
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E.
My First Wife
My First Wife is a 1984 Australian drama film directed by Paul Cox that explores the emotional breakdown of a marriage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
screwball comedy film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Home Is the Hero (play)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
a stage play ⓘ |
| castMember |
Dorothy Peterson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fred MacMurray NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Davenport NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean Arthur NERFINISHED ⓘ Melvyn Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ Meville Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Leo Tover NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Wesley Ruggles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Gene Havlick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmEra | Golden Age of Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
screwball comedy ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
identity and legal status in marriage
ⓘ
marriage ⓘ romantic rivalry ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Bill Cardew
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry Lowndes NERFINISHED ⓘ Vicky Lowndes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Benjamin Frankel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | presumed-dead spouse returns ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | love triangle ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A woman whose husband was presumed dead remarries, only for her first husband to return alive, creating a romantic and legal dilemma. ⓘ |
| producer | William Perlberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1940-03-15 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1940 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 81 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Claude Binyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| targetAudience | general audience ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Subject: Too Many Husbands Description of subject: Too Many Husbands is a 1940 American screwball comedy film, based on a play, about a woman whose life is upended when her presumed-dead husband returns to find she has remarried.
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