Dodsworth
E791760
Dodsworth is a 1936 drama film, based on Sinclair Lewis's novel, that explores the disintegration of a wealthy American couple's marriage during a European trip.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dodsworth canonical | 5 |
| Dodsworth (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9317238 — 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: Dodsworth Context triple: [Paul Lukas, notableFilmAppearance, Dodsworth]
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A.
Elwood Blues
Elwood Blues is a fictional harmonica-playing musician and one half of the comedic rhythm and blues duo The Blues Brothers, famously portrayed by Dan Aykroyd.
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B.
The Loved One
The Loved One is a darkly comic novella by Evelyn Waugh that satirizes the American funeral industry and Hollywood culture.
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C.
Kings Row
Kings Row is a 1942 American drama film set in a small Midwestern town, known for its dark exploration of social hypocrisy and psychological trauma.
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D.
Shawbost
Shawbost is a village on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, known for its Gaelic heritage and coastal scenery.
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E.
الدهناء
الدهناء هي صحراء رملية طويلة وضيقة في وسط شبه الجزيرة العربية تُعد من أبرز الصحارى السعودية التي تربط بين صحراء النفود الكبير والربع الخالي.
- 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: Dodsworth Target entity description: Dodsworth is a 1936 drama film, based on Sinclair Lewis's novel, that explores the disintegration of a wealthy American couple's marriage during a European trip.
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A.
Elwood Blues
Elwood Blues is a fictional harmonica-playing musician and one half of the comedic rhythm and blues duo The Blues Brothers, famously portrayed by Dan Aykroyd.
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B.
The Loved One
The Loved One is a darkly comic novella by Evelyn Waugh that satirizes the American funeral industry and Hollywood culture.
-
C.
Kings Row
Kings Row is a 1942 American drama film set in a small Midwestern town, known for its dark exploration of social hypocrisy and psychological trauma.
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D.
Shawbost
Shawbost is a village on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, known for its Gaelic heritage and coastal scenery.
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E.
الدهناء
الدهناء هي صحراء رملية طويلة وضيقة في وسط شبه الجزيرة العربية تُعد من أبرز الصحارى السعودية التي تربط بين صحراء النفود الكبير والربع الخالي.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Dodsworth (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| artDirector | Richard Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Dodsworth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Sinclair Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| character |
Arnold Iselin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Baroness von Obersdorf NERFINISHED ⓘ Edith Cortright NERFINISHED ⓘ Fran Dodsworth NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Dodsworth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Rudolph Maté NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | William Wyler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Edward Curtiss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
ⓘ
surface form:
Golden Age of Hollywood
|
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasFilmRating | Passed (Production Code Administration) ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
American expatriates
ⓘ
marital disintegration ⓘ middle‑age crisis ⓘ |
| musicBy | Alfred Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | wealthy American couple on European trip ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Actor
ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Art Direction ⓘ Academy Award for Best Director ⓘ Academy Award for Best Picture ⓘ Academy Award for Best Sound Recording NERFINISHED ⓘ Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ⓘ Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| oscarNominationsCount | 7 ⓘ |
| playwrightOfSourcePlay | Sidney Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Samuel Goldwyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Samuel Goldwyn Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | September 23, 1936 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 101 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Sidney Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
Europe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| stars |
David Niven
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maria Ouspenskaya NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Astor NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Lukas NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruth Chatterton NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Huston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| won | Academy Award for Best Art Direction 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: Dodsworth Description of subject: Dodsworth is a 1936 drama film, based on Sinclair Lewis's novel, that explores the disintegration of a wealthy American couple's marriage during a European trip.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dodsworth (novel)