The Wild Child
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The Wild Child is a 1970 French drama film directed by François Truffaut, based on the true story of a feral boy found in 18th-century France and his education by a compassionate doctor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Wild Child canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9392863 — 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: The Wild Child Context triple: [Néstor Almendros, notableWork, The Wild Child]
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A.
The Curious Savage
The Curious Savage is a comedic stage play by John Patrick that follows an eccentric widow who is committed to a sanatorium by her greedy stepchildren, exploring themes of sanity, kindness, and the value of nonconformity.
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B.
The Child
The Child is the English translation of the French title "L’Enfant," commonly associated with works in literature and film that focus on themes of youth, innocence, and moral development.
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C.
Bittendes Kind
"Bittendes Kind" is one of the short, characterful piano pieces in Robert Schumann's "Kinderszenen," depicting the tender, pleading mood of a child.
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D.
A Strange Boy
"A Strange Boy" is a song by Joni Mitchell from her 1976 album *Hejira*, noted for its introspective lyrics and jazz-influenced sound.
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E.
The Children
"The Children" is a critically acclaimed stage play by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood that explores aging, responsibility, and the aftermath of a nuclear disaster through the reunion of three retired nuclear scientists.
- 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: The Wild Child Target entity description: The Wild Child is a 1970 French drama film directed by François Truffaut, based on the true story of a feral boy found in 18th-century France and his education by a compassionate doctor.
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A.
The Curious Savage
The Curious Savage is a comedic stage play by John Patrick that follows an eccentric widow who is committed to a sanatorium by her greedy stepchildren, exploring themes of sanity, kindness, and the value of nonconformity.
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B.
The Child
The Child is the English translation of the French title "L’Enfant," commonly associated with works in literature and film that focus on themes of youth, innocence, and moral development.
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C.
Bittendes Kind
"Bittendes Kind" is one of the short, characterful piano pieces in Robert Schumann's "Kinderszenen," depicting the tender, pleading mood of a child.
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D.
A Strange Boy
"A Strange Boy" is a song by Joni Mitchell from her 1976 album *Hejira*, noted for its introspective lyrics and jazz-influenced sound.
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E.
The Children
"The Children" is a critically acclaimed stage play by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood that explores aging, responsibility, and the aftermath of a nuclear disaster through the reunion of three retired nuclear scientists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
case history of a feral child in 18th-century France
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true story of Victor of Aveyron ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematography | Néstor Almendros NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| director | François Truffaut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directorActor | François Truffaut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Les Films du Carrosse
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Agnès Guillemot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Dr. Jean Itard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Madame Guérin NERFINISHED ⓘ Victor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Victor of Aveyron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Antoine Duhamel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
François Truffaut’s performance as Dr. Itard
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depiction of a historical feral child case ⓘ |
| originalTitle | L’Enfant sauvage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | French New Wave cinema context ⓘ |
| portrays |
18th-century France
ⓘ
education of a wild child ⓘ feral child ⓘ |
| protagonist | Dr. Jean Itard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateFrance | 1970 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1970 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 83 minutes ⓘ |
| settingPlace | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | late 18th century ⓘ |
| stars |
François Truffaut
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Françoise Seigner NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean-Pierre Cargol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
child psychology
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civilization versus nature ⓘ education ⓘ language acquisition ⓘ |
| writer |
François Truffaut
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jean Gruault 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: The Wild Child Description of subject: The Wild Child is a 1970 French drama film directed by François Truffaut, based on the true story of a feral boy found in 18th-century France and his education by a compassionate doctor.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.