Seed (1931 film)
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Seed (1931 film) is a 1931 American pre-Code drama directed by John M. Stahl that explores the emotional and social consequences of a man's abandonment of his family in pursuit of literary success.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Seed (1931 film) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11423306 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Seed (1931 film) Context triple: [John M. Stahl, notableWork, Seed (1931 film)]
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M (1931 film)
M (1931 film) is a landmark German thriller directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its pioneering use of sound and its chilling portrayal of a child murderer hunted by both police and criminals.
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B.
Resurrection (1931 film)
Resurrection (1931 film) is an early 20th-century cinematic adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel "Resurrection," dramatizing themes of guilt, redemption, and social injustice.
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C.
Resurrection (1927 film)
Resurrection (1927 film) is a silent drama based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel, notable as an early cinematic interpretation of the classic Russian work.
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D.
Quicksand (1928)
Quicksand (1928) is a seminal Harlem Renaissance novel by Nella Larsen that explores race, gender, and identity through the experiences of a mixed-race woman navigating Black and white societies in the early 20th century.
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E.
Rain (1928 film)
Rain (1928 film) is a silent drama starring Joan Crawford, based on W. Somerset Maugham’s story about a troubled woman and a fanatical missionary on a South Seas island.
- 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: Seed (1931 film) Target entity description: Seed (1931 film) is a 1931 American pre-Code drama directed by John M. Stahl that explores the emotional and social consequences of a man's abandonment of his family in pursuit of literary success.
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A.
M (1931 film)
M (1931 film) is a landmark German thriller directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its pioneering use of sound and its chilling portrayal of a child murderer hunted by both police and criminals.
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B.
Resurrection (1931 film)
Resurrection (1931 film) is an early 20th-century cinematic adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel "Resurrection," dramatizing themes of guilt, redemption, and social injustice.
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C.
Resurrection (1927 film)
Resurrection (1927 film) is a silent drama based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel, notable as an early cinematic interpretation of the classic Russian work.
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D.
Quicksand (1928)
Quicksand (1928) is a seminal Harlem Renaissance novel by Nella Larsen that explores race, gender, and identity through the experiences of a mixed-race woman navigating Black and white societies in the early 20th century.
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E.
Rain (1928 film)
Rain (1928 film) is a silent drama starring Joan Crawford, based on W. Somerset Maugham’s story about a troubled woman and a fanatical missionary on a South Seas island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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drama film ⓘ film ⓘ pre-Code film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Seed by Charles G. Norris
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novel ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Jackson Rose NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | John M. Stahl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| distributor | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Milton Carruth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasAgeRating | unrated (pre-Code era) ⓘ |
| hasFormat | feature film ⓘ |
| hasSetting | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | aspiring writer ⓘ |
| medium | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | family drama ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
abandonment
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ambition ⓘ emotional consequences ⓘ literary success ⓘ marital conflict ⓘ social consequences ⓘ |
| notableFor | early appearance of Bette Davis ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | American pre-Code cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Carl Laemmle Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCodeEra | pre-Code Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1931-02-01 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1931 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 96 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Gladys Lehman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | contemporary to 1930s ⓘ |
| soundFilm | true ⓘ |
| starring |
Bette Davis
NERFINISHED
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Frances Dee NERFINISHED ⓘ Genevieve Tobin NERFINISHED ⓘ John Boles NERFINISHED ⓘ Lois Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ Raymond Hackett NERFINISHED ⓘ Zasu Pitts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Seed (1931 film) Description of subject: Seed (1931 film) is a 1931 American pre-Code drama directed by John M. Stahl that explores the emotional and social consequences of a man's abandonment of his family in pursuit of literary success.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.