The Long, Hot Summer

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The Long, Hot Summer is a 1958 Southern drama film starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, loosely based on William Faulkner stories and noted for its steamy atmosphere and character-driven storytelling.

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Label	Occurrences
The Long, Hot Summer canonical	11
The Long, Hot Summer (1958 film)	2
The Long Hot Summer	1
The Long Hot Summer (1958 film)	1
The Long, Hot Summer franchise	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16334124 — 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 Long, Hot Summer
Context triple: [Martin Ritt, notableWork, The Long, Hot Summer]

A. Red Summer
Red Summer refers to the wave of intense racial violence and white supremacist attacks against African Americans that swept across numerous U.S. cities and towns during the late spring through early autumn of 1919.
B. Long Hot Summer of 1967
The Long Hot Summer of 1967 was a period marked by widespread, often violent urban unrest and racial uprisings across numerous American cities amid deep tensions over civil rights, policing, and inequality.
C. Harlem: Diary of a Summer
Harlem: Diary of a Summer is a studio album by American rapper Jim Jones that captures his gritty, street-level perspective on life in Harlem.
D. Summer of '69
"Summer of '69" is a classic rock song by Canadian musician Bryan Adams that nostalgically reflects on youthful memories and the passage of time.
E. Black Summer
Black Summer is a post-apocalyptic zombie horror television series known for its fast-paced, survival-focused storytelling and intense, grounded depiction of a sudden undead outbreak.
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 Long, Hot Summer
Target entity description: The Long, Hot Summer is a 1958 Southern drama film starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, loosely based on William Faulkner stories and noted for its steamy atmosphere and character-driven storytelling.

A. Red Summer
Red Summer refers to the wave of intense racial violence and white supremacist attacks against African Americans that swept across numerous U.S. cities and towns during the late spring through early autumn of 1919.
B. Long Hot Summer of 1967
The Long Hot Summer of 1967 was a period marked by widespread, often violent urban unrest and racial uprisings across numerous American cities amid deep tensions over civil rights, policing, and inequality.
C. Harlem: Diary of a Summer
Harlem: Diary of a Summer is a studio album by American rapper Jim Jones that captures his gritty, street-level perspective on life in Harlem.
D. Summer of '69
"Summer of '69" is a classic rock song by Canadian musician Bryan Adams that nostalgically reflects on youthful memories and the passage of time.
E. Black Summer
Black Summer is a post-apocalyptic zombie horror television series known for its fast-paced, survival-focused storytelling and intense, grounded depiction of a sudden undead outbreak.
F. None of above. chosen

Referenced by (16)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Martin Ritt → notableWork → The Long, Hot Summer ⓘ

Martin Ritt → directed → The Long, Hot Summer ⓘ

Harriet Frank Jr. → notableWork → The Long, Hot Summer ⓘ

Anthony Franciosa → notableWork → The Long Hot Summer ⓘ