The Cobweb
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The Cobweb is a 1955 American drama film directed by Vincente Minnelli, set in a psychiatric clinic and known for its focus on interpersonal tensions symbolized through a dispute over new drapes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Cobweb canonical | 7 |
| The Cobweb (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1070880 — 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 Cobweb Context triple: [Jarma Lewis, notableWork, The Cobweb]
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A.
The Machine of the World
The Machine of the World is a famous allegorical vision in Luís de Camões’ epic poem *Os Lusíadas*, in which the cosmos and its secrets are revealed to the Portuguese explorers.
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B.
The Sterile Cuckoo
The Sterile Cuckoo is a 1969 romantic drama film directed by Alan J. Pakula, best known for featuring one of Liza Minnelli’s earliest acclaimed screen performances.
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C.
Lotus-Eaters
The Lotus-Eaters are a mythical people in Greek mythology whose intoxicating lotus fruit causes those who eat it to forget their homes and lose all desire to return.
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D.
The Bird in a Cage
The Bird in a Cage is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English dramatist James Shirley, known for its witty exploration of courtly love and confinement.
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E.
Cat's Eye
Cat's Eye is a psychologically rich novel by Margaret Atwood that explores memory, identity, and the lasting impact of childhood friendships and bullying on an adult woman artist.
- 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 Cobweb Target entity description: The Cobweb is a 1955 American drama film directed by Vincente Minnelli, set in a psychiatric clinic and known for its focus on interpersonal tensions symbolized through a dispute over new drapes.
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A.
The Machine of the World
The Machine of the World is a famous allegorical vision in Luís de Camões’ epic poem *Os Lusíadas*, in which the cosmos and its secrets are revealed to the Portuguese explorers.
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B.
The Sterile Cuckoo
The Sterile Cuckoo is a 1969 romantic drama film directed by Alan J. Pakula, best known for featuring one of Liza Minnelli’s earliest acclaimed screen performances.
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C.
Lotus-Eaters
The Lotus-Eaters are a mythical people in Greek mythology whose intoxicating lotus fruit causes those who eat it to forget their homes and lose all desire to return.
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D.
The Bird in a Cage
The Bird in a Cage is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English dramatist James Shirley, known for its witty exploration of courtly love and confinement.
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E.
Cat's Eye
Cat's Eye is a psychologically rich novel by Margaret Atwood that explores memory, identity, and the lasting impact of childhood friendships and bullying on an adult woman artist.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Cobweb Description of subject: The Cobweb is a 1955 American drama film directed by Vincente Minnelli, set in a psychiatric clinic and known for its focus on interpersonal tensions symbolized through a dispute over new drapes.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Cobweb (novel)
subject surface form:
Betty Joan Perske