Only Yesterday (1933 film)
E924635
Only Yesterday (1933 film) is a 1933 American romantic drama directed by John M. Stahl, loosely inspired by Stefan Zweig’s novella "Letter from an Unknown Woman."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Only Yesterday (1933 film) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11423304 — 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: Only Yesterday (1933 film) Context triple: [John M. Stahl, notableWork, Only Yesterday (1933 film)]
-
A.
Only Yesterday (2016 English dub)
Only Yesterday (2016 English dub) is the English-language version of the 1991 Studio Ghibli animated film, featuring Daisy Ridley in a leading voice role.
-
B.
Only Yesterday
Only Yesterday is a 1975 soft rock ballad by the Carpenters, known for its lush harmonies and reflective lyrics about love and emotional renewal.
-
C.
Only Yesterday
Only Yesterday is a landmark novel of Modern Hebrew literature, renowned for its vivid portrayal of early 20th-century Jewish pioneer life in Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine.
-
D.
Private: The Tokyo Story
Private: The Tokyo Story is an adult film title from the "Private" series, known for its explicit erotic content set against a Tokyo backdrop.
-
E.
Make Way for Tomorrow
Make Way for Tomorrow is a 1937 American drama film, directed by Leo McCarey, that poignantly portrays the hardships faced by an elderly couple forced to live apart during the Great Depression.
- 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: Only Yesterday (1933 film) Target entity description: Only Yesterday (1933 film) is a 1933 American romantic drama directed by John M. Stahl, loosely inspired by Stefan Zweig’s novella "Letter from an Unknown Woman."
-
A.
Only Yesterday (2016 English dub)
Only Yesterday (2016 English dub) is the English-language version of the 1991 Studio Ghibli animated film, featuring Daisy Ridley in a leading voice role.
-
B.
Only Yesterday
Only Yesterday is a 1975 soft rock ballad by the Carpenters, known for its lush harmonies and reflective lyrics about love and emotional renewal.
-
C.
Only Yesterday
Only Yesterday is a landmark novel of Modern Hebrew literature, renowned for its vivid portrayal of early 20th-century Jewish pioneer life in Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine.
-
D.
Private: The Tokyo Story
Private: The Tokyo Story is an adult film title from the "Private" series, known for its explicit erotic content set against a Tokyo backdrop.
-
E.
Make Way for Tomorrow
Make Way for Tomorrow is a 1937 American drama film, directed by Leo McCarey, that poignantly portrays the hardships faced by an elderly couple forced to live apart during the Great Depression.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
ⓘ
film ⓘ romantic drama film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Letter from an Unknown Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Stefan Zweig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | John J. Mescall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | John M. Stahl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Milton Carruth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | romantic drama ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
memory
ⓘ
regret ⓘ unrequited love ⓘ |
| hasWikipediaPage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Yesterday_(1933_film) ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Letter from an Unknown Woman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| motionPictureRating | pre-Code Hollywood film ⓘ |
| musicBy | R.H. Bassett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | flashback ⓘ |
| notableFor | early starring role of Margaret Sullavan ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Carl Laemmle Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1933-11-03 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1933 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 105 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Arthur Richman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William Hurlbut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| settingTime | post-World War I era ⓘ |
| starring |
Billie Burke
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edna May Oliver NERFINISHED ⓘ George Meeker NERFINISHED ⓘ John Boles NERFINISHED ⓘ Margaret Sullavan NERFINISHED ⓘ Reginald Denny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Only Yesterday 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: Only Yesterday (1933 film) Description of subject: Only Yesterday (1933 film) is a 1933 American romantic drama directed by John M. Stahl, loosely inspired by Stefan Zweig’s novella "Letter from an Unknown Woman."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.