Christmas Holiday
E1045998
"Christmas Holiday" is a 1944 American film noir melodrama directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly, adapted loosely from a W. Somerset Maugham novel.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Christmas Holiday canonical | 2 |
| Christmas holiday | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13498507 — 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: Christmas Holiday Context triple: [Robert Siodmak, notableWork, Christmas Holiday]
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A.
Home for Christmas
Home for Christmas is *NSYNC’s popular holiday studio album featuring a mix of original Christmas songs and festive pop ballads.
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B.
Home for Christmas
"Home for Christmas" is a holiday-themed studio album by Scottish singer Susan Boyle, featuring classic Christmas songs performed in her signature vocal style.
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C.
A Holly Jolly Christmas
"A Holly Jolly Christmas" is a popular mid-20th-century Christmas song, widely associated with Burl Ives’s recordings and now considered a holiday standard.
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D.
Home for the Holidays
Home for the Holidays is a 1995 American comedy-drama film about a chaotic family Thanksgiving gathering, directed by Jodie Foster.
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E.
Home for the Holidays
"Home for the Holidays" is an episode of the television drama series "Friday Night Lights," focusing on the personal and family challenges of its characters during the holiday season.
- 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: Christmas Holiday Target entity description: "Christmas Holiday" is a 1944 American film noir melodrama directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly, adapted loosely from a W. Somerset Maugham novel.
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A.
Home for Christmas
Home for Christmas is *NSYNC’s popular holiday studio album featuring a mix of original Christmas songs and festive pop ballads.
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B.
Home for Christmas
"Home for Christmas" is a holiday-themed studio album by Scottish singer Susan Boyle, featuring classic Christmas songs performed in her signature vocal style.
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C.
A Holly Jolly Christmas
"A Holly Jolly Christmas" is a popular mid-20th-century Christmas song, widely associated with Burl Ives’s recordings and now considered a holiday standard.
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D.
Home for the Holidays
Home for the Holidays is a 1995 American comedy-drama film about a chaotic family Thanksgiving gathering, directed by Jodie Foster.
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E.
Home for the Holidays
"Home for the Holidays" is an episode of the television drama series "Friday Night Lights," focusing on the personal and family challenges of its characters during the holiday season.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film noir
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film ⓘ melodrama film ⓘ |
| adaptationType | loose adaptation ⓘ |
| basedOn | novel by W. Somerset Maugham ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Woody Bredell ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| director | Robert Siodmak ⓘ |
| distributor | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Arthur Hilton ⓘ |
| genre |
film noir
ⓘ
melodrama ⓘ |
| leadCharacterPlayedByDeannaDurbin | Jackie Lamont ⓘ |
| leadCharacterPlayedByGeneKelly |
Robert Manette
ⓘ
linked to:
Alexandre Manette
|
| musicBy | Hans J. Salter ⓘ |
| notableFor |
film noir treatment of a holiday-themed title
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unusually dark role for Deanna Durbin ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDateUSA | 1944-06-28 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1944 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 93 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Herman J. Mankiewicz ⓘ |
| setDuring | Christmas ⓘ |
| sourceAuthor | W. Somerset Maugham ⓘ |
| starring |
Deanna Durbin
ⓘ
Gene Kelly ⓘ |
| studioSystemEra | Classical Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
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: Christmas Holiday Description of subject: "Christmas Holiday" is a 1944 American film noir melodrama directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly, adapted loosely from a W. Somerset Maugham novel.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.