Judge Priest
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Judge Priest is a 1934 American comedy film directed by John Ford, featuring Will Rogers as a folksy Southern judge and including an early notable performance by Hattie McDaniel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Judge Priest canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2179035 — 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: Judge Priest Context triple: [Hattie McDaniel, notableWork, Judge Priest]
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A.
Judge Merle
Judge Merle is a fictional judge who presides over the central courtroom trial in the play and film "Inherit the Wind."
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B.
Mike Hammer
Mike Hammer is a hard-boiled, tough-as-nails private detective created by author Mickey Spillane, known for his violent methods and appearances in numerous crime novels and film adaptations.
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C.
Lord Judge
Lord Judge is a prominent British jurist who served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.
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D.
Degory Priest
Degory Priest was an English Pilgrim and early settler of Plymouth Colony who traveled on the Mayflower and participated in the founding governance of the colony.
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E.
John Stonehouse
John Stonehouse was a British Labour politician and former cabinet minister best known for faking his own death in 1974 in an attempt to escape financial and legal troubles.
- 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: Judge Priest Target entity description: Judge Priest is a 1934 American comedy film directed by John Ford, featuring Will Rogers as a folksy Southern judge and including an early notable performance by Hattie McDaniel.
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A.
Judge Merle
Judge Merle is a fictional judge who presides over the central courtroom trial in the play and film "Inherit the Wind."
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B.
Mike Hammer
Mike Hammer is a hard-boiled, tough-as-nails private detective created by author Mickey Spillane, known for his violent methods and appearances in numerous crime novels and film adaptations.
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C.
Lord Judge
Lord Judge is a prominent British jurist who served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.
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D.
Degory Priest
Degory Priest was an English Pilgrim and early settler of Plymouth Colony who traveled on the Mayflower and participated in the founding governance of the colony.
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E.
John Stonehouse
John Stonehouse was a British Labour politician and former cabinet minister best known for faking his own death in 1974 in an attempt to escape financial and legal troubles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American comedy film
ⓘ
film ⓘ |
| basedOn | stories by Irvin S. Cobb ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| character | Judge William Priest ⓘ |
| cinematography | George Schneiderman ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director | John Ford ⓘ |
| distributor | Fox Film Corporation ⓘ |
| editor | Alex Troffey ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
courtroom comedy ⓘ |
| hasFilmRating | Passed (Production Code era) ⓘ |
| musicBy | Samuel Kaylin ⓘ |
| notableFor | early notable performance by Hattie McDaniel ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays | folksy Southern judge ⓘ |
| producer | Sol M. Wurtzel ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Fox Film Corporation ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1934-09-14 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1934 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 80 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Frank O’Connor
ⓘ
Lamar Trotti ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1890s ⓘ |
| setInRegion | Kentucky ⓘ |
| soundFilm | true ⓘ |
| starring |
Anita Louise
ⓘ
David Landau ⓘ Hattie McDaniel ⓘ Henry B. Walthall ⓘ Rochelle Hudson ⓘ Stepin Fetchit ⓘ Tom Brown ⓘ Will Rogers ⓘ |
| title | Judge Priest ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Judge Priest Description of subject: Judge Priest is a 1934 American comedy film directed by John Ford, featuring Will Rogers as a folksy Southern judge and including an early notable performance by Hattie McDaniel.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.