Elmer Gantry
E270213
Elmer Gantry is a 1960 American drama film, based on Sinclair Lewis’s novel, about a charismatic but morally conflicted salesman-turned-evangelist.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elmer Gantry canonical | 5 |
| Elmer Gantry (1960 film) | 2 |
| Elmer Gantry (character) | 1 |
| Elmer Gantry (film) | 1 |
| Elmer Gantry (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2479751 — 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: Elmer Gantry Context triple: [Shirley Jones, notableWork, Elmer Gantry]
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A.
The Preacher
"The Preacher" is a classic hard bop jazz composition by pianist and bandleader Horace Silver, known for its catchy, gospel-inflected melody and enduring popularity in the jazz repertoire.
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B.
Reverend Salvation
Reverend Salvation is a character in the musical play "The Cradle Will Rock," representing a satirical portrait of religious authority entangled with political and economic corruption.
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C.
Agnes of God
Agnes of God is a 1985 psychological drama film about a young nun, a dead newborn, and the ensuing clash between faith and reason during a court-ordered psychiatric investigation.
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D.
The Priest
The Priest is a supporting character in Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote," a friend of the protagonist who often represents conventional wisdom and attempts to bring Don Quixote back to reality.
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E.
The Priest
"The Priest" is a reflective folk song by Joni Mitchell from her 1970 album "Ladies of the Canyon."
- 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: Elmer Gantry Target entity description: Elmer Gantry is a 1960 American drama film, based on Sinclair Lewis’s novel, about a charismatic but morally conflicted salesman-turned-evangelist.
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A.
The Preacher
"The Preacher" is a classic hard bop jazz composition by pianist and bandleader Horace Silver, known for its catchy, gospel-inflected melody and enduring popularity in the jazz repertoire.
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B.
Reverend Salvation
Reverend Salvation is a character in the musical play "The Cradle Will Rock," representing a satirical portrait of religious authority entangled with political and economic corruption.
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C.
Agnes of God
Agnes of God is a 1985 psychological drama film about a young nun, a dead newborn, and the ensuing clash between faith and reason during a court-ordered psychiatric investigation.
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D.
The Priest
The Priest is a supporting character in Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote," a friend of the protagonist who often represents conventional wisdom and attempts to bring Don Quixote back to reality.
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E.
The Priest
"The Priest" is a reflective folk song by Joni Mitchell from her 1970 album "Ladies of the Canyon."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Elmer Gantry Description of subject: Elmer Gantry is a 1960 American drama film, based on Sinclair Lewis’s novel, about a charismatic but morally conflicted salesman-turned-evangelist.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Shirley Jones
subject surface form:
Shirley Jones
this entity surface form:
Elmer Gantry (film)
this entity surface form:
Elmer Gantry (1960 film)
this entity surface form:
Elmer Gantry (1960 film)
subject surface form:
Burt Lancaster
this entity surface form:
Elmer Gantry (novel)
this entity surface form:
Elmer Gantry (character)