The Battle Cry of Peace
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The Battle Cry of Peace is a 1915 American silent war drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton that served as a propagandistic call for U.S. military preparedness before World War I.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Battle Cry of Peace canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2754155 — 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 Battle Cry of Peace Context triple: [Vitagraph Company of America, notableWork, The Battle Cry of Peace]
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A.
A Soldier’s Declaration
A Soldier’s Declaration is a famous 1917 statement by British war poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon condemning the continuation of World War I as unjust and needlessly destructive.
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B.
None But the Brave
None But the Brave is a 1965 World War II film, directed by Frank Sinatra, that portrays an uneasy alliance between stranded American and Japanese soldiers on a Pacific island.
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C.
The Spirit of War
The Spirit of War is a 19th-century painting by American landscape artist Jasper Francis Cropsey that allegorically depicts the destructive forces and atmosphere of war.
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D.
The Fifth Book of Peace
The Fifth Book of Peace is a reflective, genre-blending work by Maxine Hong Kingston that intertwines memoir, fiction, and meditation on war, loss, and the pursuit of peace.
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E.
War Is Kind
War Is Kind is a collection of anti-war poems and short stories by American writer Stephen Crane that starkly critiques the brutality and irony of war.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Battle Cry of Peace Target entity description: The Battle Cry of Peace is a 1915 American silent war drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton that served as a propagandistic call for U.S. military preparedness before World War I.
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A.
A Soldier’s Declaration
A Soldier’s Declaration is a famous 1917 statement by British war poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon condemning the continuation of World War I as unjust and needlessly destructive.
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B.
None But the Brave
None But the Brave is a 1965 World War II film, directed by Frank Sinatra, that portrays an uneasy alliance between stranded American and Japanese soldiers on a Pacific island.
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C.
The Spirit of War
The Spirit of War is a 19th-century painting by American landscape artist Jasper Francis Cropsey that allegorically depicts the destructive forces and atmosphere of war.
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D.
The Fifth Book of Peace
The Fifth Book of Peace is a reflective, genre-blending work by Maxine Hong Kingston that intertwines memoir, fiction, and meditation on war, loss, and the pursuit of peace.
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E.
War Is Kind
War Is Kind is a collection of anti-war poems and short stories by American writer Stephen Crane that starkly critiques the brutality and irony of war.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drama film
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propaganda film ⓘ silent film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The War and the World’s Life by Hudson Maxim ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfRelease |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | J. Stuart Blackton ⓘ |
| distributor | Vitagraph Company of America ⓘ |
| era | silent film era ⓘ |
| filmLength | feature-length ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| genre |
silent drama
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war drama ⓘ |
| hasColor | black and white ⓘ |
| language | Silent film with English intertitles ⓘ |
| motionPictureRating | unrated (pre-MPAA rating system) ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| notableFor |
depiction of a hypothetical enemy invasion of the United States
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use as a preparedness propaganda tool ⓘ |
| producer | J. Stuart Blackton ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Vitagraph Company of America ⓘ |
| propagandaFor | U.S. military buildup before World War I ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1915 ⓘ |
| releaseType | feature film ⓘ |
| screenwriter | J. Stuart Blackton ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | pre–World War I era ⓘ |
| theme |
American patriotism
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invasion of the United States ⓘ military preparedness ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Battle Cry of Peace Description of subject: The Battle Cry of Peace is a 1915 American silent war drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton that served as a propagandistic call for U.S. military preparedness before World War I.
Referenced by (4)
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