Snow Falling on Cedars
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Snow Falling on Cedars is a 1999 American film adaptation of David Guterson’s novel, blending courtroom drama and romantic tragedy against the backdrop of post–World War II anti-Japanese prejudice in the Pacific Northwest.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Snow Falling on Cedars canonical | 6 |
| Snow Falling on Cedars (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3403825 — 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: Snow Falling on Cedars Context triple: [Ronald Bass, notableWork, Snow Falling on Cedars]
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The Last Juror
The Last Juror is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows a young journalist and a small Southern town shaken by a brutal murder and a vengeful criminal.
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B.
The Blue Umbrella
The Blue Umbrella is a Pixar animated short film that follows the journey of a sentient blue umbrella through a rainy cityscape, showcasing photorealistic visuals and a charming, dialogue-free love story.
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C.
The Ox-Bow Incident (novel)
The Ox-Bow Incident (novel) is a 1940 Western by Walter Van Tilburg Clark that powerfully explores mob justice, moral responsibility, and the consequences of vigilantism in the American frontier.
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D.
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Ox-Bow Incident is a 1943 American Western film noir about a lynch mob’s rush to judgment, renowned for its stark moral themes and powerful performances.
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E.
Places in the Heart
Places in the Heart is a 1984 American drama film set in Depression-era Texas, focusing on a widow’s struggle to save her farm and family.
- 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: Snow Falling on Cedars Target entity description: Snow Falling on Cedars is a 1999 American film adaptation of David Guterson’s novel, blending courtroom drama and romantic tragedy against the backdrop of post–World War II anti-Japanese prejudice in the Pacific Northwest.
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A.
The Last Juror
The Last Juror is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows a young journalist and a small Southern town shaken by a brutal murder and a vengeful criminal.
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B.
The Blue Umbrella
The Blue Umbrella is a Pixar animated short film that follows the journey of a sentient blue umbrella through a rainy cityscape, showcasing photorealistic visuals and a charming, dialogue-free love story.
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C.
The Ox-Bow Incident (novel)
The Ox-Bow Incident (novel) is a 1940 Western by Walter Van Tilburg Clark that powerfully explores mob justice, moral responsibility, and the consequences of vigilantism in the American frontier.
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D.
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Ox-Bow Incident is a 1943 American Western film noir about a lynch mob’s rush to judgment, renowned for its stark moral themes and powerful performances.
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E.
Places in the Heart
Places in the Heart is a 1984 American drama film set in Depression-era Texas, focusing on a widow’s struggle to save her farm and family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: Snow Falling on Cedars Description of subject: Snow Falling on Cedars is a 1999 American film adaptation of David Guterson’s novel, blending courtroom drama and romantic tragedy against the backdrop of post–World War II anti-Japanese prejudice in the Pacific Northwest.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Snow Falling on Cedars (novel)