The Story of Esther Costello
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The Story of Esther Costello is a 1957 British drama film about a deaf-blind girl exploited for charitable gain, starring Joan Crawford and directed by David Miller.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Story of Esther Costello canonical | 2 |
| The Story of Esther Costello (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12897694 — 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 Story of Esther Costello Context triple: [Don Mankiewicz, notableWork, The Story of Esther Costello]
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The Woman Who Sings
"The Woman Who Sings" is a popular Soviet musical drama film starring Alla Pugacheva as a gifted singer whose rise to fame strains her personal life.
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B.
Where Is Her Head
"Where Is Her Head" is a song by American indie rock band The National, featured on their 2019 album and film project "I Am Easy to Find."
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C.
Madonna of the Yarnwinder
Madonna of the Yarnwinder is a painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci depicting the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child contemplating a yarnwinder that symbolizes the cross.
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D.
That Lady
"That Lady" is a 1973 funk and soul hit by The Isley Brothers, known for its distinctive guitar work and smooth, psychedelic groove.
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E.
Diary of a Mad Diva
Diary of a Mad Diva is a humor book by comedian Joan Rivers, filled with her acerbic, diary-style observations on celebrity culture, aging, and everyday life.
- 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 Story of Esther Costello Target entity description: The Story of Esther Costello is a 1957 British drama film about a deaf-blind girl exploited for charitable gain, starring Joan Crawford and directed by David Miller.
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A.
The Woman Who Sings
"The Woman Who Sings" is a popular Soviet musical drama film starring Alla Pugacheva as a gifted singer whose rise to fame strains her personal life.
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B.
Where Is Her Head
"Where Is Her Head" is a song by American indie rock band The National, featured on their 2019 album and film project "I Am Easy to Find."
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C.
Madonna of the Yarnwinder
Madonna of the Yarnwinder is a painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci depicting the Virgin Mary with the Christ Child contemplating a yarnwinder that symbolizes the cross.
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D.
That Lady
"That Lady" is a 1973 funk and soul hit by The Isley Brothers, known for its distinctive guitar work and smooth, psychedelic groove.
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E.
Diary of a Mad Diva
Diary of a Mad Diva is a humor book by comedian Joan Rivers, filled with her acerbic, diary-style observations on celebrity culture, aging, and everyday life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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 Story of Esther Costello Description of subject: The Story of Esther Costello is a 1957 British drama film about a deaf-blind girl exploited for charitable gain, starring Joan Crawford and directed by David Miller.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Story of Esther Costello