Tom Brown's Schooldays (1940 film)
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Tom Brown's Schooldays (1940 film) is a British drama adaptation of Thomas Hughes's classic 19th-century novel about life, friendship, and bullying at the Rugby public school.
All labels observed (1)
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| Tom Brown's Schooldays (1940 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11824723 — 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)
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Target entity: Tom Brown's Schooldays (1940 film) Context triple: [Tom Brown's Schooldays, hasAdaptation, Tom Brown's Schooldays (1940 film)]
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Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1951 film)
Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1951 film) is a 1951 British drama adaptation of Thomas Hughes’s classic novel about life at Rugby School in the 19th century.
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Tom Brown's Schooldays (1916 film)
Tom Brown's Schooldays (1916 film) is a silent British drama adaptation of Thomas Hughes's classic 1857 novel about life at Rugby School.
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Tom Brown's Schooldays
"Tom Brown's Schooldays" is an 1857 novel by Thomas Hughes that popularized the public-school story genre in Victorian England and helped shape ideals of character, sportsmanship, and moral earnestness among British schoolboys.
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D.
Tom Brown at Oxford
Tom Brown at Oxford is a Victorian novel by Thomas Hughes that continues the story of schoolboy hero Tom Brown as he navigates university life, moral challenges, and social change at Oxford.
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E.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
"Goodbye, Mr. Chips" is a classic 1939 British drama film, based on James Hilton’s novella, about the life and career of a beloved schoolteacher at an English boys’ boarding school.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tom Brown's Schooldays (1940 film) Target entity description: Tom Brown's Schooldays (1940 film) is a British drama adaptation of Thomas Hughes's classic 19th-century novel about life, friendship, and bullying at the Rugby public school.
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A.
Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1951 film)
Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1951 film) is a 1951 British drama adaptation of Thomas Hughes’s classic novel about life at Rugby School in the 19th century.
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B.
Tom Brown's Schooldays (1916 film)
Tom Brown's Schooldays (1916 film) is a silent British drama adaptation of Thomas Hughes's classic 1857 novel about life at Rugby School.
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C.
Tom Brown's Schooldays
"Tom Brown's Schooldays" is an 1857 novel by Thomas Hughes that popularized the public-school story genre in Victorian England and helped shape ideals of character, sportsmanship, and moral earnestness among British schoolboys.
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D.
Tom Brown at Oxford
Tom Brown at Oxford is a Victorian novel by Thomas Hughes that continues the story of schoolboy hero Tom Brown as he navigates university life, moral challenges, and social change at Oxford.
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E.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
"Goodbye, Mr. Chips" is a classic 1939 British drama film, based on James Hilton’s novella, about the life and career of a beloved schoolteacher at an English boys’ boarding school.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British film
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drama film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Tom Brown's School Days NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Thomas Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
A. E. Matthews
NERFINISHED
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Aubrey Mallalieu NERFINISHED ⓘ Bryan Herbert NERFINISHED ⓘ Charles Victor NERFINISHED ⓘ David Horne NERFINISHED ⓘ Derrick De Marney NERFINISHED ⓘ Desmond Tester NERFINISHED ⓘ Ernest Butcher NERFINISHED ⓘ Frederick Leister NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Edwards NERFINISHED ⓘ Howard Marion-Crawford NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Lambert NERFINISHED ⓘ Jimmy Hanley NERFINISHED ⓘ John Mills NERFINISHED ⓘ Manning Whiley NERFINISHED ⓘ Norman Shelley NERFINISHED ⓘ O. B. Clarence NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Newton NERFINISHED ⓘ Roddy McDowall NERFINISHED ⓘ Sir Cedric Hardwicke NERFINISHED ⓘ Wally Patch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Günther Krampf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfRelease | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Robert Stevenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | General Film Distributors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Charles Frend NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
coming-of-age film
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drama ⓘ school film ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Tom Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Richard Addinsell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Ian Dalrymple NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Two Cities Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1940 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
C. E. Webber
NERFINISHED
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Ian Dalrymple NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Rugby School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| theme |
bullying
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friendship ⓘ school life ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Tom Brown's Schooldays (1940 film) Description of subject: Tom Brown's Schooldays (1940 film) is a British drama adaptation of Thomas Hughes's classic 19th-century novel about life, friendship, and bullying at the Rugby public school.
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