It’s a Wonderful World
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"It’s a Wonderful World" is a 1939 screwball comedy film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and shot by cinematographer Joseph Walker, known for its fast-paced plot and witty dialogue.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| It’s a Wonderful World canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13393296 — 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: It’s a Wonderful World Context triple: [Joseph Walker, notableWork, It’s a Wonderful World]
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A.
What a Wonderful World
"What a Wonderful World" is a classic 1967 jazz and pop ballad, best known for Louis Armstrong’s warm, gravelly vocals and its optimistic reflection on the beauty of everyday life.
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B.
What a Wonderful World
"What a Wonderful World" is a popular studio album by Canadian country and pop singer Anne Murray, featuring inspirational and easy-listening songs.
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C.
A Wonderful World
A Wonderful World is a studio album by Scottish singer Susan Boyle featuring her interpretations of classic pop and standards.
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D.
Wonderful World
"Wonderful World" is a 1965 pop song made famous by the British beat group Herman's Hermits, known for its catchy melody and lighthearted lyrics.
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E.
"Wonderful World"
"Wonderful World" is a classic pop song best known for its hit 1960 recording by Sam Cooke, celebrated for its catchy melody and lighthearted lyrics about love and learning.
- 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: It’s a Wonderful World Target entity description: "It’s a Wonderful World" is a 1939 screwball comedy film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and shot by cinematographer Joseph Walker, known for its fast-paced plot and witty dialogue.
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A.
What a Wonderful World
"What a Wonderful World" is a popular studio album by Canadian country and pop singer Anne Murray, featuring inspirational and easy-listening songs.
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B.
What a Wonderful World
"What a Wonderful World" is a classic 1967 jazz and pop ballad, best known for Louis Armstrong’s warm, gravelly vocals and its optimistic reflection on the beauty of everyday life.
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C.
A Wonderful World
A Wonderful World is a studio album by Scottish singer Susan Boyle featuring her interpretations of classic pop and standards.
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D.
Wonderful World
"Wonderful World" is a 1965 pop song made famous by the British beat group Herman's Hermits, known for its catchy melody and lighthearted lyrics.
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E.
"Wonderful World"
"Wonderful World" is a classic pop song best known for its hit 1960 recording by Sam Cooke, celebrated for its catchy melody and lighthearted lyrics about love and learning.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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film ⓘ screwball comedy film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Joseph Walker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsElement | road movie elements ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dialogueStyle | rapid-fire banter ⓘ |
| director | W. S. Van Dyke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
ⓘ
surface form:
Golden Age of Hollywood
|
| filmingProcess | photochemical film ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
screwball comedy ⓘ |
| hasFilmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
mistaken identity
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romantic comedy ⓘ |
| leadActor | James Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActress | Claudette Colbert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | private detective ⓘ |
| musicBy | Edward Ward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePace | fast-paced ⓘ |
| notableFor | witty dialogue ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfFilmMovement | classical Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| producer | Frank Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1939-05-19 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1939 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 86 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Ben Hecht
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Herman J. Mankiewicz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| soundFilm | true ⓘ |
| starring |
Cecil Cunningham
NERFINISHED
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Claudette Colbert NERFINISHED ⓘ Edgar Kennedy NERFINISHED ⓘ Ernest Truex NERFINISHED ⓘ Guy Kibbee NERFINISHED ⓘ Hans Conried NERFINISHED ⓘ James Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ Nat Pendleton NERFINISHED ⓘ Sidney Blackmer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studio | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general audience ⓘ |
| title | It’s a Wonderful World 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: It’s a Wonderful World Description of subject: "It’s a Wonderful World" is a 1939 screwball comedy film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and shot by cinematographer Joseph Walker, known for its fast-paced plot and witty dialogue.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.