Holiday (1930 film)
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Holiday (1930 film) is an early American romantic comedy-drama based on Philip Barry’s play, notable for being the first screen adaptation of the story later famously remade in 1938.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Holiday (1930 film) canonical | 1 |
| Holiday (1938 film) | 1 |
| Holiday (screenplay) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10676713 — 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: Holiday (1930 film) Context triple: [Holiday (1938 film), previousFilmAdaptationOfSamePlay, Holiday (1930 film)]
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A.
Last Holiday (1950 film)
Last Holiday (1950 film) is a British comedy-drama in which Alec Guinness plays a man mistakenly diagnosed as terminally ill who splurges on a final luxurious vacation, leading to ironic twists of fate.
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B.
It Happened One Night
It Happened One Night is a classic 1934 romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra, celebrated for its witty dialogue, influential screwball style, and Academy Award–winning performances by Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.
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C.
The Calendar (1931 film)
The Calendar (1931 film) is a British drama film adaptation of Edgar Wallace’s play, centered on horse racing, romance, and social intrigue.
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D.
The Divorcee (1930)
The Divorcee (1930) is a pre-Code American drama film, produced at MGM, that became notable for its frank treatment of marriage and infidelity and earned Norma Shearer an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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E.
Smilin’ Through (1932)
Smilin’ Through (1932) is a romantic drama film from Hollywood’s early sound era, best known as a prestige MGM production featuring themes of love, loss, and spiritual reunion.
- 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: Holiday (1930 film) Target entity description: Holiday (1930 film) is an early American romantic comedy-drama based on Philip Barry’s play, notable for being the first screen adaptation of the story later famously remade in 1938.
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A.
Last Holiday (1950 film)
Last Holiday (1950 film) is a British comedy-drama in which Alec Guinness plays a man mistakenly diagnosed as terminally ill who splurges on a final luxurious vacation, leading to ironic twists of fate.
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B.
It Happened One Night
It Happened One Night is a classic 1934 romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra, celebrated for its witty dialogue, influential screwball style, and Academy Award–winning performances by Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert.
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C.
The Calendar (1931 film)
The Calendar (1931 film) is a British drama film adaptation of Edgar Wallace’s play, centered on horse racing, romance, and social intrigue.
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D.
The Divorcee (1930)
The Divorcee (1930) is a pre-Code American drama film, produced at MGM, that became notable for its frank treatment of marriage and infidelity and earned Norma Shearer an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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E.
Smilin’ Through (1932)
Smilin’ Through (1932) is a romantic drama film from Hollywood’s early sound era, best known as a prestige MGM production featuring themes of love, loss, and spiritual reunion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Holiday (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Philip Barry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Joseph Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Edward H. Griffith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Columbia Pictures
ⓘ
Columbia Pictures Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Otto Meyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Holiday (1938 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama film
ⓘ
romantic film ⓘ |
| hasLaterFilmAdaptation | Holiday (1938 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSetting | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isFirstFilmAdaptationOf | Holiday (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first screen adaptation of Philip Barry’s play "Holiday" ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Harry Cohn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1930 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 98 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Horace H. Jackson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Horace Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | contemporary to time of production ⓘ |
| starring |
Ann Harding
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charles Coleman NERFINISHED ⓘ Charles Richman NERFINISHED ⓘ Edmund Breese NERFINISHED ⓘ Edward Everett Horton NERFINISHED ⓘ Elizabeth Forrester NERFINISHED ⓘ Frances Dade NERFINISHED ⓘ Frederick Burton NERFINISHED ⓘ Hallam Cooley NERFINISHED ⓘ Hedda Hopper NERFINISHED ⓘ James Crane NERFINISHED ⓘ Margaret Seddon NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Astor NERFINISHED ⓘ Maude Turner Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ Monroe Owsley NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Ames NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Livingston NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Ricketts NERFINISHED ⓘ William B. Davidson NERFINISHED ⓘ William Holden NERFINISHED ⓘ William Holden (silent-era actor) 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: Holiday (1930 film) Description of subject: Holiday (1930 film) is an early American romantic comedy-drama based on Philip Barry’s play, notable for being the first screen adaptation of the story later famously remade in 1938.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Holiday (1938 film)
this entity surface form:
Holiday (screenplay)
this entity surface form:
Holiday (1938 film)