The Spoilers (1930 film)
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The Spoilers (1930 film) is an early sound-era Western drama based on Rex Beach’s novel, known for its Alaskan gold-rush setting and a famously brutal saloon fistfight scene.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Spoilers (1930 film) canonical | 3 |
| The Spoilers (1942 film) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2167040 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Spoilers (1930 film) Context triple: [Jules Furthman, notableWork, The Spoilers (1930 film)]
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A.
Sparrows (1926 film)
Sparrows (1926 film) is a 1926 silent drama film starring Mary Pickford, renowned for its dark, expressionistic style and its story of abused orphans escaping from a grim baby farm in the Florida swamps.
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B.
Suspicion (1941 film)
Suspicion (1941 film) is a 1941 psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine, about a woman who comes to fear that her charming husband may be plotting to kill her.
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C.
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) is an early British suspense thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, centered on an ordinary couple who accidentally uncover an assassination plot while on holiday.
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D.
Gold Diggers of 1937
Gold Diggers of 1937 is a Warner Bros. musical comedy film from Hollywood’s classic era, featuring lavish song-and-dance numbers and satirical takes on show business and wealth.
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E.
Seven Sinners (1940 film)
Seven Sinners (1940 film) is a 1940 romantic comedy-drama set in the South Seas, best known for starring Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne in one of their early on-screen pairings.
- 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 Spoilers (1930 film) Target entity description: The Spoilers (1930 film) is an early sound-era Western drama based on Rex Beach’s novel, known for its Alaskan gold-rush setting and a famously brutal saloon fistfight scene.
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A.
Sparrows (1926 film)
Sparrows (1926 film) is a 1926 silent drama film starring Mary Pickford, renowned for its dark, expressionistic style and its story of abused orphans escaping from a grim baby farm in the Florida swamps.
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B.
Suspicion (1941 film)
Suspicion (1941 film) is a 1941 psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine, about a woman who comes to fear that her charming husband may be plotting to kill her.
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C.
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) is an early British suspense thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, centered on an ordinary couple who accidentally uncover an assassination plot while on holiday.
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D.
Gold Diggers of 1937
Gold Diggers of 1937 is a Warner Bros. musical comedy film from Hollywood’s classic era, featuring lavish song-and-dance numbers and satirical takes on show business and wealth.
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E.
Seven Sinners (1940 film)
Seven Sinners (1940 film) is a 1940 romantic comedy-drama set in the South Seas, best known for starring Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne in one of their early on-screen pairings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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Western film ⓘ black-and-white film ⓘ drama film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| adaptationRelationship | second film adaptation of The Spoilers (novel) ⓘ |
| author | Rex Beach ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Spoilers (novel) ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| feature | brutal saloon fistfight scene ⓘ |
| followsWork | silent film era ⓘ |
| genre |
Western
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drama ⓘ |
| hasFictionalTimeSetting | late 19th century ⓘ |
| hasMedium | sound film ⓘ |
| hasProductionEra |
Pre-Code Hollywood
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surface form:
pre-Code Hollywood
|
| hasSourceMaterialGenre | adventure novel ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Spoilers ⓘ |
| isAdaptationOf | The Spoilers (novel) ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | conflict over gold claims ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
corruption and justice
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greed during gold rush ⓘ lawlessness in frontier Alaska ⓘ |
| notableFor | saloon fistfight sequence ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | early sound era ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1930s ⓘ |
| setting |
Alaska
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Alaskan gold rush ⓘ |
| workType | feature film ⓘ |
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 Spoilers (1930 film) Description of subject: The Spoilers (1930 film) is an early sound-era Western drama based on Rex Beach’s novel, known for its Alaskan gold-rush setting and a famously brutal saloon fistfight scene.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Spoilers (1942 film)
this entity surface form:
The Spoilers (1942 film)