The Little Yank
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The Little Yank is a 1917 silent American comedy-drama film starring Dorothy Gish and directed by George Siegmann.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Little Yank canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12969289 — 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 Yank Context triple: [Dorothy Gish, notableWork, The Little Yank]
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A.
The Little Regiment
The Little Regiment is a collection of short stories by Stephen Crane that, like his other works, vividly portrays the experiences and psychological turmoil of soldiers in the American Civil War.
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B.
The Sergeant
The Sergeant is a 1968 drama film starring Rod Steiger as a rigid Army noncommissioned officer grappling with repressed homosexuality and inner turmoil.
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C.
The Boys in Company C
The Boys in Company C is a 1978 war drama film that follows a group of U.S. Marine recruits from boot camp to the front lines of the Vietnam War, highlighting the psychological and moral challenges they face.
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D.
The Little Colonel
The Little Colonel is a 1935 American film best known for pairing Shirley Temple with Lionel Barrymore and featuring one of the earliest interracial dance scenes in Hollywood history.
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E.
The Smiling Lieutenant
The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, celebrated for its sophisticated humor, romantic entanglements, and early use of the “Lubitsch Touch.”
- 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 Yank Target entity description: The Little Yank is a 1917 silent American comedy-drama film starring Dorothy Gish and directed by George Siegmann.
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A.
The Little Regiment
The Little Regiment is a collection of short stories by Stephen Crane that, like his other works, vividly portrays the experiences and psychological turmoil of soldiers in the American Civil War.
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B.
The Sergeant
The Sergeant is a 1968 drama film starring Rod Steiger as a rigid Army noncommissioned officer grappling with repressed homosexuality and inner turmoil.
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C.
The Boys in Company C
The Boys in Company C is a 1978 war drama film that follows a group of U.S. Marine recruits from boot camp to the front lines of the Vietnam War, highlighting the psychological and moral challenges they face.
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D.
The Little Colonel
The Little Colonel is a 1935 American film best known for pairing Shirley Temple with Lionel Barrymore and featuring one of the earliest interracial dance scenes in Hollywood history.
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E.
The Smiling Lieutenant
The Smiling Lieutenant is a 1931 pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Ernst Lubitsch, celebrated for its sophisticated humor, romantic entanglements, and early use of the “Lubitsch Touch.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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 Little Yank Description of subject: The Little Yank is a 1917 silent American comedy-drama film starring Dorothy Gish and directed by George Siegmann.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.