The Big Land (1957 film)
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The Big Land (1957 film) is a 1957 American Western movie starring Alan Ladd as a former Confederate soldier who helps homesteaders build a town while battling corrupt cattle interests.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Big Land (1957 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13235583 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Big Land (1957 film) Context triple: [Wells Root, notableWork, The Big Land (1957 film)]
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A.
Cimarron (1960 film)
Cimarron (1960 film) is a 1960 Western drama and remake of the 1931 Oscar-winning film, depicting frontier life and the Oklahoma land rush.
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B.
So Big (1953 film)
So Big (1953 film) is a 1953 American drama film adaptation of Edna Ferber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, starring Sterling Hayden.
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C.
Giant (1956 film)
Giant (1956 film) is a 1956 American epic Western drama directed by George Stevens, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean, that explores themes of wealth, racism, and social change in Texas over several decades.
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D.
The Big Country
The Big Country is a 1958 American Western epic film, directed by William Wyler and starring Gregory Peck, known for its sweeping Cinemascope landscapes and exploration of pride, honor, and frontier justice.
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E.
Red Dust
Red Dust is a film associated with director Tom Hooper, known as one of his earlier dramatic works before his rise to international prominence.
- 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 Big Land (1957 film) Target entity description: The Big Land (1957 film) is a 1957 American Western movie starring Alan Ladd as a former Confederate soldier who helps homesteaders build a town while battling corrupt cattle interests.
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A.
Cimarron (1960 film)
Cimarron (1960 film) is a 1960 Western drama and remake of the 1931 Oscar-winning film, depicting frontier life and the Oklahoma land rush.
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B.
So Big (1953 film)
So Big (1953 film) is a 1953 American drama film adaptation of Edna Ferber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, starring Sterling Hayden.
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C.
Giant (1956 film)
Giant (1956 film) is a 1956 American epic Western drama directed by George Stevens, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean, that explores themes of wealth, racism, and social change in Texas over several decades.
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D.
The Big Country
The Big Country is a 1958 American Western epic film, directed by William Wyler and starring Gregory Peck, known for its sweeping Cinemascope landscapes and exploration of pride, honor, and frontier justice.
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E.
Red Dust
Red Dust is a film associated with director Tom Hooper, known as one of his earlier dramatic works before his rise to international prominence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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Western film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Clay Fisher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Big Land (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | John F. Seitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | WarnerColor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Gordon Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy |
Warner Bros. Pictures
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surface form:
Warner Bros.
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| editedBy | William H. Ziegler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresTheme |
cattle industry corruption
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homesteading ⓘ town-building ⓘ |
| filmingProcess | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| genre | Western ⓘ |
| hasGenre | drama ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Chad Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical film ⓘ |
| musicBy | David Buttolph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A former Confederate soldier helps homesteaders build a town and fights corrupt cattle interests controlling the market. ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Alan Ladd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Alan Ladd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Jaguar Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1957-03-01 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1957 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 89 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
James Edward Grant
NERFINISHED
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Martin Rackin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | post-American Civil War era ⓘ |
| starring |
Alan Ladd
NERFINISHED
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Anthony Caruso NERFINISHED ⓘ Don Beddoe NERFINISHED ⓘ Edmond O'Brien NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Faylen NERFINISHED ⓘ James Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ John Qualen NERFINISHED ⓘ King Donovan NERFINISHED ⓘ Lewis Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Hansen NERFINISHED ⓘ Phyllis Coates NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Teal NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia Mayo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Big Land (1957 film) Description of subject: The Big Land (1957 film) is a 1957 American Western movie starring Alan Ladd as a former Confederate soldier who helps homesteaders build a town while battling corrupt cattle interests.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.