Show People
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Show People is a 1928 silent comedy film directed by King Vidor that satirizes Hollywood and the movie industry.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Show People canonical | 17 |
| Show People (film universe) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2498191 — 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: Show People Context triple: [King Vidor, notableWork, Show People]
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A.
People
People is a widely read American weekly magazine focusing on celebrity news, human-interest stories, and popular culture.
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B.
Moviefone
Moviefone is an online service that provides movie showtimes, tickets, and related film information to consumers.
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C.
OMDB
OMDB is the ICAO airport code for Dubai International Airport, one of the world's busiest and most important international aviation hubs.
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D.
The People
The People is a British Sunday tabloid newspaper known for its popular journalism, human-interest stories, and coverage of celebrity and sports news.
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E.
The People
"The People" is a politically charged hip-hop track by Common that reflects on social issues, community struggles, and empowerment.
- 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: Show People Target entity description: Show People is a 1928 silent comedy film directed by King Vidor that satirizes Hollywood and the movie industry.
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A.
People
People is a widely read American weekly magazine focusing on celebrity news, human-interest stories, and popular culture.
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B.
Moviefone
Moviefone is an online service that provides movie showtimes, tickets, and related film information to consumers.
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C.
OMDB
OMDB is the ICAO airport code for Dubai International Airport, one of the world's busiest and most important international aviation hubs.
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D.
The People
The People is a British Sunday tabloid newspaper known for its popular journalism, human-interest stories, and coverage of celebrity and sports news.
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E.
The People
"The People" is a politically charged hip-hop track by Common that reflects on social issues, community struggles, and empowerment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy film
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film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Story by Joseph Farnham ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | John F. Seitz ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| director | King Vidor ⓘ |
| distributedAs | Silent feature with synchronized music and sound effects in some prints ⓘ |
| distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| editedBy | Hugh Wynn ⓘ |
| featured |
Cameo appearance by Charlie Chaplin
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Cameo appearance by Douglas Fairbanks ⓘ Cameo appearance by George K. Arthur ⓘ Cameo appearance by John Gilbert ⓘ Cameo appearance by Karl Dane ⓘ Cameo appearance by King Vidor ⓘ Cameo appearance by Lew Cody ⓘ Cameo appearance by Norma Talmadge ⓘ Cameo appearance by William S. Hart ⓘ |
| follows | The Patsy ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| includedIn | National Film Registry ⓘ |
| language | Silent ⓘ |
| NationalFilmRegistrySelectionYear | 2003 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Satire of Hollywood and the movie industry
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Showcasing Marion Davies’ talent for comedy ⓘ Use of numerous star cameos ⓘ |
| preservedIn | Library of Congress ⓘ |
| producedBy |
King Vidor
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Marion Davies ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1928-10-13 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1928 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 79 ⓘ |
| satirizes |
Hollywood film industry
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Movie stardom ⓘ |
| screenplayBy |
Agnes Christine Johnston
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Laurence Stallings ⓘ Wanda Tuchock ⓘ |
| setIn | Hollywood ⓘ |
| starred |
Dell Henderson
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Harry Gribbon ⓘ Henry Kolker ⓘ Marion Davies ⓘ Paul Ralli ⓘ Tenen Holtz ⓘ William Haines ⓘ |
| starringCharacter |
Billy Boone
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Peggy Pepper ⓘ |
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: Show People Description of subject: Show People is a 1928 silent comedy film directed by King Vidor that satirizes Hollywood and the movie industry.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.