Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
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Our Hearts Were Young and Gay is a 1944 American coming-of-age comedy film based on the popular memoir by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough.
All labels observed (1)
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| Our Hearts Were Young and Gay canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12840772 — 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: Our Hearts Were Young and Gay Context triple: [Diana Lynn, notableWork, Our Hearts Were Young and Gay]
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A.
Sweet Bird of Youth
Sweet Bird of Youth is a 1959 play by Tennessee Williams that explores themes of lost youth, ambition, and moral decay in the American South.
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B.
Bright Young Things
Bright Young Things is a 2003 British period comedy-drama film, written and directed by Stephen Fry, that satirically portrays the hedonistic lives of young socialites in 1930s London.
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C.
Love in Greenwich Village
Love in Greenwich Village is a collection of early 20th-century short stories by American writer Floyd Dell that explores bohemian life, romance, and social change in New York City's Greenwich Village.
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D.
A Girl of Yesterday
A Girl of Yesterday is a 1915 American silent romantic comedy film starring Mary Pickford and Owen Moore, notable as an early feature in Pickford’s career.
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E.
None but the Lonely Heart
"None but the Lonely Heart" is a 1944 drama film, based on Richard Llewellyn’s novel and directed by Clifford Odets, about a disillusioned Cockney drifter in wartime London struggling with poverty, crime, and his relationship with his ailing mother.
- 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: Our Hearts Were Young and Gay Target entity description: Our Hearts Were Young and Gay is a 1944 American coming-of-age comedy film based on the popular memoir by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough.
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A.
Sweet Bird of Youth
Sweet Bird of Youth is a 1959 play by Tennessee Williams that explores themes of lost youth, ambition, and moral decay in the American South.
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B.
Bright Young Things
Bright Young Things is a 2003 British period comedy-drama film, written and directed by Stephen Fry, that satirically portrays the hedonistic lives of young socialites in 1930s London.
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C.
Love in Greenwich Village
Love in Greenwich Village is a collection of early 20th-century short stories by American writer Floyd Dell that explores bohemian life, romance, and social change in New York City's Greenwich Village.
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D.
A Girl of Yesterday
A Girl of Yesterday is a 1915 American silent romantic comedy film starring Mary Pickford and Owen Moore, notable as an early feature in Pickford’s career.
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E.
None but the Lonely Heart
"None but the Lonely Heart" is a 1944 drama film, based on Richard Llewellyn’s novel and directed by Clifford Odets, about a disillusioned Cockney drifter in wartime London struggling with poverty, crime, and his relationship with his ailing mother.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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coming-of-age comedy film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (memoir) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor |
Cornelia Otis Skinner
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Emily Kimbrough NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Theodor Sparkuhl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| director | Lewis Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Eda Warren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmStudioEra | Hollywood studio era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
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coming-of-age film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Robert Emmett Dolan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
adolescent experiences
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friendship ⓘ travel ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Betsy Beaton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfSource | 1942 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1944 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 86 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Cornelia Otis Skinner
NERFINISHED
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Emily Kimbrough NERFINISHED ⓘ Guy Bolton NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilkie C. Mahoney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Europe
NERFINISHED
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United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceMaterialGenre | memoir ⓘ |
| sourceMaterialTitle | Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Beulah Bondi
NERFINISHED
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Bill Edwards NERFINISHED ⓘ Charles Ruggles NERFINISHED ⓘ Diana Lynn NERFINISHED ⓘ Dorothy Gish NERFINISHED ⓘ Gail Russell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Our Hearts Were Young and Gay Description of subject: Our Hearts Were Young and Gay is a 1944 American coming-of-age comedy film based on the popular memoir by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough.
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