Poppy (1936 film)
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Poppy (1936 film) is a 1936 American comedy film best known for starring W.C. Fields alongside Rochelle Hudson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Poppy (1936 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9217386 — 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: Poppy (1936 film) Context triple: [Rochelle Hudson, notableWork, Poppy (1936 film)]
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A.
Random Harvest
Random Harvest is a 1942 romantic drama film, based on James Hilton’s novel, renowned for its amnesia-driven love story and considered one of director Mervyn LeRoy’s most enduring works.
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B.
The Actress
The Actress is a 1953 American comedy-drama film, directed by George Cukor and based on Ruth Gordon’s autobiographical play, depicting a young woman’s determination to pursue a stage career against her father’s wishes.
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C.
The Painted Veil (1934 film)
The Painted Veil (1934 film) is an American romantic drama starring Greta Garbo, based on W. Somerset Maugham’s novel about a troubled marriage set against a cholera epidemic in China.
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D.
The Women (1939 film)
The Women (1939 film) is a classic American comedy-drama directed by George Cukor, notable for its all-female cast and sharp, satirical portrayal of high-society relationships and gossip.
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E.
M (1931 film)
M (1931 film) is a landmark German thriller directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its pioneering use of sound and its chilling portrayal of a child murderer hunted by both police and criminals.
- 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: Poppy (1936 film) Target entity description: Poppy (1936 film) is a 1936 American comedy film best known for starring W.C. Fields alongside Rochelle Hudson.
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A.
Random Harvest
Random Harvest is a 1942 romantic drama film, based on James Hilton’s novel, renowned for its amnesia-driven love story and considered one of director Mervyn LeRoy’s most enduring works.
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B.
The Actress
The Actress is a 1953 American comedy-drama film, directed by George Cukor and based on Ruth Gordon’s autobiographical play, depicting a young woman’s determination to pursue a stage career against her father’s wishes.
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C.
The Painted Veil (1934 film)
The Painted Veil (1934 film) is an American romantic drama starring Greta Garbo, based on W. Somerset Maugham’s novel about a troubled marriage set against a cholera epidemic in China.
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D.
The Women (1939 film)
The Women (1939 film) is a classic American comedy-drama directed by George Cukor, notable for its all-female cast and sharp, satirical portrayal of high-society relationships and gossip.
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E.
M (1931 film)
M (1931 film) is a landmark German thriller directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its pioneering use of sound and its chilling portrayal of a child murderer hunted by both police and criminals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Poppy (stage play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Henry Sharp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | A. Edward Sutherland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Chandler House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Poppy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Professor Eustace McGargle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy film ⓘ |
| musicBy | John Leipold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | starring W. C. Fields alongside Rochelle Hudson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | William LeBaron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 73 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Gene Towne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Graham Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | small American town ⓘ |
| stars |
Rochelle Hudson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
W. C. Fields NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Poppy 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: Poppy (1936 film) Description of subject: Poppy (1936 film) is a 1936 American comedy film best known for starring W.C. Fields alongside Rochelle Hudson.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.