The Little Princess
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The Little Princess is a 1917 silent film adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel "A Little Princess," starring Mary Pickford as the imaginative young heroine Sara Crewe.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Little Princess canonical | 1 |
| The Little Princess (1939 film) | 1 |
| The Little Princess (screenplay adaptation) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11622255 — 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: The Little Princess Context triple: [Marshall Neilan, notableWork, The Little Princess]
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A.
A Little Princess
A Little Princess is a 1995 fantasy drama film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel, and acclaimed for its lush, imaginative visual style.
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B.
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Little Lord Fauntleroy is an 1886 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett about a kind-hearted American boy who unexpectedly inherits an English earldom and transforms his curmudgeonly grandfather.
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C.
The Gingham Girl
The Gingham Girl is a 1927 American silent romantic comedy film starring Australian actress Lotus Thompson.
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D.
A Kid for Two Farthings
A Kid for Two Farthings is a 1955 British drama film set in London’s East End that follows a young boy who believes his pet goat is a magical unicorn capable of granting wishes.
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E.
Princess Fen
Princess Fen is an Atlantean royal from Marvel Comics, best known as the mother of Namor the Sub-Mariner and a key figure in Atlantis’s royal lineage.
- 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: The Little Princess Target entity description: The Little Princess is a 1917 silent film adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel "A Little Princess," starring Mary Pickford as the imaginative young heroine Sara Crewe.
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A.
A Little Princess
A Little Princess is a 1995 fantasy drama film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel, and acclaimed for its lush, imaginative visual style.
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B.
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Little Lord Fauntleroy is an 1886 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett about a kind-hearted American boy who unexpectedly inherits an English earldom and transforms his curmudgeonly grandfather.
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C.
The Gingham Girl
The Gingham Girl is a 1927 American silent romantic comedy film starring Australian actress Lotus Thompson.
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D.
A Kid for Two Farthings
A Kid for Two Farthings is a 1955 British drama film set in London’s East End that follows a young boy who believes his pet goat is a magical unicorn capable of granting wishes.
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E.
Princess Fen
Princess Fen is an Atlantean royal from Marvel Comics, best known as the mother of Namor the Sub-Mariner and a key figure in Atlantis’s royal lineage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feature film
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silent film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | A Little Princess (1905 novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | A Little Princess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Frances Hodgson Burnett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| castMember | Mary Pickford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterRole | Sara Crewe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Walter Stradling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Marshall Neilan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| distributor |
Artcraft Pictures
NERFINISHED
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Famous Players–Lasky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | silent era ⓘ |
| filmEra | 1910s American films ⓘ |
| filmRuntime | approximately 62 minutes ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| hasFilmCharacter |
Captain Crewe
NERFINISHED
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Miss Minchin NERFINISHED ⓘ Sara Crewe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
drama film
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family film ⓘ |
| hasPoster | theatrical release poster ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | Sara Crewe’s fall from wealth to poverty ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
class differences
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imagination ⓘ resilience ⓘ |
| notableFor | Mary Pickford’s performance as a child heroine ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Silent ⓘ |
| partOf | American silent cinema ⓘ |
| portrays | Sara Crewe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Mary Pickford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Mary Pickford Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | November 1917 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1917 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Frances Marion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| silent | true ⓘ |
| stars | Mary Pickford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Little Princess 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: The Little Princess Description of subject: The Little Princess is a 1917 silent film adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel "A Little Princess," starring Mary Pickford as the imaginative young heroine Sara Crewe.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Little Princess (screenplay adaptation)
this entity surface form:
The Little Princess (1939 film)