My Dear Secretary
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My Dear Secretary is a 1948 American romantic comedy film starring Kirk Douglas and Laraine Day, known for its lighthearted story about a struggling writer and his secretary.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| My Dear Secretary canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11008708 — 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: My Dear Secretary Context triple: [Gale Robbins, notableWork, My Dear Secretary]
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A.
Confidentially Yours
Confidentially Yours is a 1983 French black-and-white mystery-comedy film directed by François Truffaut, often regarded as his playful homage to classic Hitchcockian thrillers.
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B.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the traditional formal style of address used for the United States Secretary of the Treasury.
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C.
Mr. Secretary
Mr. Secretary is the formal style of address traditionally used for the United States Secretary of Defense.
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D.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the formal style of address traditionally used for the United States Secretary of Transportation.
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E.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the formal style of address traditionally used for the United States Secretary of State.
- 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: My Dear Secretary Target entity description: My Dear Secretary is a 1948 American romantic comedy film starring Kirk Douglas and Laraine Day, known for its lighthearted story about a struggling writer and his secretary.
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A.
Confidentially Yours
Confidentially Yours is a 1983 French black-and-white mystery-comedy film directed by François Truffaut, often regarded as his playful homage to classic Hitchcockian thrillers.
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B.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the traditional formal style of address used for the United States Secretary of the Treasury.
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C.
Mr. Secretary
Mr. Secretary is the formal style of address traditionally used for the United States Secretary of Defense.
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D.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the formal style of address traditionally used for the United States Secretary of Transportation.
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E.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the formal style of address traditionally used for the United States Secretary of State.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedBy |
Ronnie Hastings – Keenan Wynn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carter – Rudy Vallée NERFINISHED ⓘ Elsa – Helen Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ Owen Waterbury – Kirk Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord – Laraine Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography | Russell Metty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Charles Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Harry W. Gerstad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmEra | Golden Age of Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
romance film ⓘ romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| hasMediaType | feature film ⓘ |
| hasPlotElement |
literary career difficulties
ⓘ
relationship between a struggling writer and his secretary ⓘ romantic misunderstandings ⓘ |
| hasTone | lighthearted ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | general audience ⓘ |
| leadCharacter |
Owen Waterbury
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Heinz Roemheld NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | romantic relationship between employer and secretary ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Harry M. Popkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Cardinal Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1948-09-02 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1948 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 95 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Charles Martin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gertrude Purcell NERFINISHED ⓘ Leonard Praskins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| starring |
Helen Walker
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Keenan Wynn NERFINISHED ⓘ Kirk Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ Laraine Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Rudy Vallée NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfStory | contemporary to late 1940s ⓘ |
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: My Dear Secretary Description of subject: My Dear Secretary is a 1948 American romantic comedy film starring Kirk Douglas and Laraine Day, known for its lighthearted story about a struggling writer and his secretary.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.