The Usurer
E1043152
"The Usurer" is a 1910 silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, in which Wilfred Lucas plays the lead role of a ruthless moneylender.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Usurer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13483039 — 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 Usurer Context triple: [Wilfred Lucas, notableWork, The Usurer]
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A.
The Miser's Heart
The Miser's Heart is a 1911 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, featuring early cinema actress Linda Arvidson.
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B.
Volpone
Volpone is a satirical comedy play by Ben Jonson that critiques greed and corruption in wealthy Venetian society.
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C.
The Merchant
"The Merchant" is a notable work by the ancient Roman playwright Philemon, likely a comedy reflecting everyday social and economic life in classical Greece or Rome.
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D.
Death and the Miser
Death and the Miser is a late 15th-century religious and moralizing painting by Hieronymus Bosch that depicts a dying man torn between salvation and the temptations of earthly wealth.
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E.
A Man of Mark
A Man of Mark is a 19th-century adventure novel by Hugh Conway, known for its blend of political intrigue, romance, and suspense in a fictional European setting.
- 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 Usurer Target entity description: "The Usurer" is a 1910 silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, in which Wilfred Lucas plays the lead role of a ruthless moneylender.
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A.
The Miser's Heart
The Miser's Heart is a 1911 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, featuring early cinema actress Linda Arvidson.
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B.
Volpone
Volpone is a satirical comedy play by Ben Jonson that critiques greed and corruption in wealthy Venetian society.
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C.
The Merchant
"The Merchant" is a notable work by the ancient Roman playwright Philemon, likely a comedy reflecting everyday social and economic life in classical Greece or Rome.
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D.
Death and the Miser
Death and the Miser is a late 15th-century religious and moralizing painting by Hieronymus Bosch that depicts a dying man torn between salvation and the temptations of earthly wealth.
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E.
A Man of Mark
A Man of Mark is a 19th-century adventure novel by Hugh Conway, known for its blend of political intrigue, romance, and suspense in a fictional European setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drama film
ⓘ
film ⓘ short film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| castMember | Wilfred Lucas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | G. W. Bitzer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | D. W. Griffith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresActor | Wilfred Lucas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmEra | silent era ⓘ |
| filmRuntime | short ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| hasDirector | D. W. Griffith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
drama
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short ⓘ silent ⓘ |
| isBlackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| leadCharacterOccupation | moneylender ⓘ |
| leadCharacterTrait | ruthless ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Silent ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Biograph Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1910 ⓘ |
| starredActor | Wilfred Lucas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfPremiere | 1910 ⓘ |
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 Usurer Description of subject: "The Usurer" is a 1910 silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, in which Wilfred Lucas plays the lead role of a ruthless moneylender.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.