Beckett on Film: Happy Days
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Beckett on Film: Happy Days is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s play "Happy Days," featuring Billie Whitelaw in a critically acclaimed performance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Beckett on Film: Happy Days canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3446909 — 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: Beckett on Film: Happy Days Context triple: [Billie Whitelaw, notableWork, Beckett on Film: Happy Days]
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A.
Beckett on Film: Eh Joe
Beckett on Film: Eh Joe is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s television play "Eh Joe," produced as part of the Beckett on Film project.
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B.
Beckett on Film: Rockaby
Beckett on Film: Rockaby is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Rockaby," featuring a celebrated performance by actress Billie Whitelaw.
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C.
Beckett on Film: Footfalls
Beckett on Film: Footfalls is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Footfalls," featuring Billie Whitelaw in a stark, minimalist staging that emphasizes Beckett’s themes of memory, identity, and existential isolation.
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D.
Beckett on Film: Not I
Beckett on Film: Not I is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s intense monologue play, featuring a disembodied mouth delivering a rapid, fragmented stream of consciousness in near-total darkness.
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E.
Beckett on Film: Waiting for Godot
Beckett on Film: Waiting for Godot is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s iconic absurdist play, produced as part of the Beckett on Film project.
- 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: Beckett on Film: Happy Days Target entity description: Beckett on Film: Happy Days is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s play "Happy Days," featuring Billie Whitelaw in a critically acclaimed performance.
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A.
Beckett on Film: Eh Joe
Beckett on Film: Eh Joe is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s television play "Eh Joe," produced as part of the Beckett on Film project.
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B.
Beckett on Film: Rockaby
Beckett on Film: Rockaby is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Rockaby," featuring a celebrated performance by actress Billie Whitelaw.
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C.
Beckett on Film: Footfalls
Beckett on Film: Footfalls is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s short play "Footfalls," featuring Billie Whitelaw in a stark, minimalist staging that emphasizes Beckett’s themes of memory, identity, and existential isolation.
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D.
Beckett on Film: Not I
Beckett on Film: Not I is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s intense monologue play, featuring a disembodied mouth delivering a rapid, fragmented stream of consciousness in near-total darkness.
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E.
Beckett on Film: Waiting for Godot
Beckett on Film: Waiting for Godot is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s iconic absurdist play, produced as part of the Beckett on Film project.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
television film ⓘ |
| adaptationOfGenre | stage play ⓘ |
| basedOn | Happy Days ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Samuel Beckett ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Ireland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| featuresPerformanceDescribedAs | critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
theatre adaptation ⓘ |
| hasAuthorOfOriginalWork | Samuel Beckett ⓘ |
| hasCastMember | Billie Whitelaw ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Willie
ⓘ
Winnie ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Happy Days ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Billie Whitelaw’s performance
ⓘ
faithful adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s text ⓘ |
| originalWorkLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf |
Beckett on Film project
ⓘ
surface form:
Beckett on Film
|
| productionType | filmed stage play ⓘ |
| seriesPositionIn | Beckett on Film project ⓘ |
| title | Beckett on Film: Happy Days self-link ⓘ |
| workType | screen adaptation ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Beckett on Film: Happy Days Description of subject: Beckett on Film: Happy Days is a filmed adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s play "Happy Days," featuring Billie Whitelaw in a critically acclaimed performance.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.