The Silver Cord
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The Silver Cord is a 1926 stage play by American dramatist Sidney Howard, best known as a darkly comic family drama about a domineering mother and her adult sons.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Silver Cord canonical | 4 |
| The Silver Cord (1933 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2245248 — 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 Silver Cord Context triple: [Sidney Howard, notableWork, The Silver Cord]
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A.
The Light
The Light is a notable work by the rapper Common, showcasing his introspective lyricism and soulful, jazz-influenced hip-hop style.
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B.
Book of Longing
Book of Longing is a collection of poetry and drawings by Leonard Cohen that reflects his characteristic blend of spirituality, desire, and introspection.
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C.
The Golden Threshold
The Golden Threshold is a celebrated early 20th-century poetry collection by Indian poet Sarojini Naidu, noted for its lyrical style and evocation of Indian life and landscapes.
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D.
Light of the Seven
"Light of the Seven" is a haunting, piano-driven orchestral piece by composer Ramin Djawadi, best known for underscoring the explosive climax of the Season 6 finale of Game of Thrones.
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E.
The Cradle
The Cradle is an 1872 Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting a tender scene of a mother watching over her sleeping child, and is considered one of her most celebrated works.
- 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 Silver Cord Target entity description: The Silver Cord is a 1926 stage play by American dramatist Sidney Howard, best known as a darkly comic family drama about a domineering mother and her adult sons.
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A.
The Light
The Light is a notable work by the rapper Common, showcasing his introspective lyricism and soulful, jazz-influenced hip-hop style.
-
B.
Book of Longing
Book of Longing is a collection of poetry and drawings by Leonard Cohen that reflects his characteristic blend of spirituality, desire, and introspection.
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C.
The Golden Threshold
The Golden Threshold is a celebrated early 20th-century poetry collection by Indian poet Sarojini Naidu, noted for its lyrical style and evocation of Indian life and landscapes.
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D.
Light of the Seven
"Light of the Seven" is a haunting, piano-driven orchestral piece by composer Ramin Djawadi, best known for underscoring the explosive climax of the Season 6 finale of Game of Thrones.
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E.
The Cradle
The Cradle is an 1872 Impressionist painting by Berthe Morisot depicting a tender scene of a mother watching over her sleeping child, and is considered one of her most celebrated works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
person ⓘ stage play ⓘ theatrical work ⓘ |
| author | Sidney Howard ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Silver Cord self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creatorOccupation | dramatist ⓘ |
| dramaticForm | three-act play ⓘ |
| firstPerformanceDate | 1926 ⓘ |
| genre |
dark comedy
ⓘ
family drama ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Silver Cord
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Silver Cord (1933 film)
|
| hasTheme |
emotional dependency
ⓘ
marital conflict ⓘ parental control ⓘ |
| medium | stage ⓘ |
| notableFor |
darkly comic treatment of family relationships
ⓘ
portrayal of possessive motherhood ⓘ |
| occupation | dramatist ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| setting | family home ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
adult sons
ⓘ
domineering mother ⓘ |
| workOfAuthor | Sidney Howard ⓘ |
| yearWritten | 1926 ⓘ |
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 Silver Cord Description of subject: The Silver Cord is a 1926 stage play by American dramatist Sidney Howard, best known as a darkly comic family drama about a domineering mother and her adult sons.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Silver Cord (1933 film)
subject surface form:
The Silver Cord (1933 film)