The Guardsman
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"The Guardsman" is a 1924 stage comedy by Ferenc Molnár, best known in English for the celebrated Broadway production starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne as a married acting couple testing each other's fidelity.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Guardsman canonical | 6 |
| The Guardsman (1931 film) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12729124 — 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 Guardsman Context triple: [Lynn Fontanne, notableWork, The Guardsman]
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A.
Inner Guard
The Inner Guard is a Masonic lodge officer responsible for guarding the entrance from within and controlling admission to meetings.
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B.
The Forty-Five Guardsmen
The Forty-Five Guardsmen is a historical adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas that continues his Valois trilogy, dramatizing the intrigues and power struggles in late 16th-century France.
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C.
The Crimson Guard
The Crimson Guard is the passionate student cheering section that supports the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team at their home games.
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D.
The Imperial Guards
The Imperial Guards is a nickname for Beijing Guoan F.C., a prominent professional football club based in Beijing that competes in the Chinese Super League.
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E.
Black Guard
The Black Guard was an elite corps of enslaved and later hereditary Black soldiers who formed the backbone of Sultan Moulay Ismail’s powerful standing army in Morocco during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
- 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 Guardsman Target entity description: "The Guardsman" is a 1924 stage comedy by Ferenc Molnár, best known in English for the celebrated Broadway production starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne as a married acting couple testing each other's fidelity.
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A.
Inner Guard
The Inner Guard is a Masonic lodge officer responsible for guarding the entrance from within and controlling admission to meetings.
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B.
The Forty-Five Guardsmen
The Forty-Five Guardsmen is a historical adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas that continues his Valois trilogy, dramatizing the intrigues and power struggles in late 16th-century France.
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C.
The Crimson Guard
The Crimson Guard is the passionate student cheering section that supports the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team at their home games.
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D.
The Imperial Guards
The Imperial Guards is a nickname for Beijing Guoan F.C., a prominent professional football club based in Beijing that competes in the Chinese Super League.
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E.
Black Guard
The Black Guard was an elite corps of enslaved and later hereditary Black soldiers who formed the backbone of Sultan Moulay Ismail’s powerful standing army in Morocco during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
play ⓘ stage comedy ⓘ |
| adaptedAs |
The Guardsman (1931 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
The Guardsman
|
| alsoKnownAs | A testőr ⓘ |
| author | Ferenc Molnár ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Guardsman ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Hungary
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director | Sidney Franklin ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Actor husband
ⓘ
Actress wife ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1910 ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
comedy film ⓘ romantic comedy ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
radio adaptations
ⓘ
television adaptations ⓘ |
| hasType | three-act play ⓘ |
| languageOfNotableProduction | English ⓘ |
| notableCast |
Alfred Lunt
ⓘ
Lynn Fontanne ⓘ |
| notableEnglishProduction | Broadway production starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Hungarian ⓘ |
| originalMedium | stage ⓘ |
| periodOfWork | early 20th century ⓘ |
| plotSummary | An actor disguises himself as a dashing guardsman to test his actress wife’s fidelity. ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1910 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1931 ⓘ |
| setting | Budapest ⓘ |
| stars |
Alfred Lunt
ⓘ
Lynn Fontanne ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
fidelity test
ⓘ
jealousy ⓘ marriage ⓘ |
| theatricalTradition |
Broadway theatre
ⓘ
linked to:
Broadway theater
|
| theme |
illusion versus reality
ⓘ
role-playing in relationships ⓘ |
| writtenBy | Ferenc Molnár ⓘ |
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: The Guardsman Description of subject: "The Guardsman" is a 1924 stage comedy by Ferenc Molnár, best known in English for the celebrated Broadway production starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne as a married acting couple testing each other's fidelity.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.