Sparrows
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"Sparrows" is a 1926 silent drama film starring Mary Pickford, renowned for its dark, expressionistic depiction of child exploitation in a Southern swamp.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sparrows canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10895741 — 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: Sparrows Context triple: [Mary Louise Miller, notableWork, Sparrows]
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A.
Swallows
The Swallows are a group of adventurous children who sail and camp in Arthur Ransome’s classic “Swallows and Amazons” series.
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B.
Old World sparrows
Old World sparrows are small, seed-eating passerine birds native to Europe, Asia, and Africa, best known for species like the house sparrow that commonly live in close association with humans.
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C.
Linnets
Linnets is the commonly used short name for Runcorn Linnets F.C., an English non-league football club based in Runcorn, Cheshire.
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D.
Starling
Starling is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
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E.
Sarı Kanaryalar
Sarı Kanaryalar is the famous Turkish nickname for Fenerbahçe SK, evoking the club’s traditional yellow colors and dynamic playing style.
- 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: Sparrows Target entity description: "Sparrows" is a 1926 silent drama film starring Mary Pickford, renowned for its dark, expressionistic depiction of child exploitation in a Southern swamp.
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A.
Swallows
The Swallows are a group of adventurous children who sail and camp in Arthur Ransome’s classic “Swallows and Amazons” series.
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B.
Old World sparrows
Old World sparrows are small, seed-eating passerine birds native to Europe, Asia, and Africa, best known for species like the house sparrow that commonly live in close association with humans.
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C.
Linnets
Linnets is the commonly used short name for Runcorn Linnets F.C., an English non-league football club based in Runcorn, Cheshire.
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D.
Starling
Starling is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
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E.
Sarı Kanaryalar
Sarı Kanaryalar is the famous Turkish nickname for Fenerbahçe SK, evoking the club’s traditional yellow colors and dynamic playing style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drama film
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feature film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original story ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedBy | Mary Pickford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography |
Charles Rosher
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hal Mohr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director |
Tom McNamara
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Beaudine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Molly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat |
black-and-white
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silent ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasFilmPosterDesigner | Unknown ⓘ |
| hasSetting | Southern swamp ⓘ |
| hasVisualStyle | German Expressionism-influenced ⓘ |
| includesScene | escape through alligator-infested swamp ⓘ |
| mainTheme | child exploitation ⓘ |
| musicBy | Hugo Riesenfeld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | children held captive on a baby farm ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dark, expressionistic visual style
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depiction of child labor and abuse ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Silent film with English intertitles ⓘ |
| partOf | Mary Pickford filmography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Mary Pickford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1926 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 80 minutes ⓘ |
| starring |
Billy Butts
NERFINISHED
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Bruce Guerin NERFINISHED ⓘ Buddy Messinger NERFINISHED ⓘ Carmen De Rue NERFINISHED ⓘ Charlotte Mineau NERFINISHED ⓘ George Nichols NERFINISHED ⓘ Gustav von Seyffertitz NERFINISHED ⓘ Jane Keckley NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Lloyd Whitlock NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Jane Irving NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Louise Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Pickford NERFINISHED ⓘ Monty O’Grady NERFINISHED ⓘ Muriel McCormac NERFINISHED ⓘ Phyllis Haver NERFINISHED ⓘ Roy Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ Spec O’Donnell NERFINISHED ⓘ Sunshine Hart 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: Sparrows Description of subject: "Sparrows" is a 1926 silent drama film starring Mary Pickford, renowned for its dark, expressionistic depiction of child exploitation in a Southern swamp.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.