The Man Who Came Back (1924 film)
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The Man Who Came Back (1924 film) is a silent American drama feature best known today as one of the prominent screen vehicles for actress Lila Lee during the 1920s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Man Who Came Back (1924 film) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4419430 — 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: The Man Who Came Back (1924 film) Context triple: [Lila Lee, notableWork, The Man Who Came Back (1924 film)]
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A.
To the Unknown Man
"To the Unknown Man" is a melodic, synthesizer-driven instrumental piece by Vangelis, noted for its atmospheric, emotive build and enduring popularity in his catalog.
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B.
The Painted Veil (1934 film)
The Painted Veil (1934 film) is an American romantic drama starring Greta Garbo, based on W. Somerset Maugham’s novel about a troubled marriage set against a cholera epidemic in China.
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C.
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) is an early British suspense thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, centered on an ordinary couple who accidentally uncover an assassination plot while on holiday.
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D.
The Enemy (1927 film)
The Enemy (1927 film) is a silent drama that portrays the personal and social toll of World War I on a young couple and their family.
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E.
The Man from St. Petersburg
The Man from St. Petersburg is a historical thriller novel by Ken Follett set on the eve of World War I, involving espionage, political intrigue, and an anarchist plot in Edwardian England.
- 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: The Man Who Came Back (1924 film) Target entity description: The Man Who Came Back (1924 film) is a silent American drama feature best known today as one of the prominent screen vehicles for actress Lila Lee during the 1920s.
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A.
To the Unknown Man
"To the Unknown Man" is a melodic, synthesizer-driven instrumental piece by Vangelis, noted for its atmospheric, emotive build and enduring popularity in his catalog.
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B.
The Painted Veil (1934 film)
The Painted Veil (1934 film) is an American romantic drama starring Greta Garbo, based on W. Somerset Maugham’s novel about a troubled marriage set against a cholera epidemic in China.
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C.
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) is an early British suspense thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, centered on an ordinary couple who accidentally uncover an assassination plot while on holiday.
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D.
The Enemy (1927 film)
The Enemy (1927 film) is a silent drama that portrays the personal and social toll of World War I on a young couple and their family.
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E.
The Man from St. Petersburg
The Man from St. Petersburg is a historical thriller novel by Ken Follett set on the eve of World War I, involving espionage, political intrigue, and an anarchist plot in Edwardian England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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drama film ⓘ feature film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Man Who Came Back (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor |
Eugene Walter
NERFINISHED
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John Fleming Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Ernest G. Palmer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Emmett J. Flynn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Fox
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fox Film Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Ralph Dixon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 1920s American cinema ⓘ |
| filmType | feature-length ⓘ |
| format | Black-and-white ⓘ |
| genre | Drama ⓘ |
| hasStarVehicleFor | Lila Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVersion | The Man Who Came Back (1931 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isAdaptationOf | stage play The Man Who Came Back ⓘ |
| language | Silent ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a prominent screen vehicle for Lila Lee in the 1920s ⓘ |
| producer | William Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Fox Film Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | February 24, 1924 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1924 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 70 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Eugene Walter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
China
NERFINISHED
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San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Alfred Allen
NERFINISHED
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Evelyn Brent NERFINISHED ⓘ George Fawcett NERFINISHED ⓘ George Irving NERFINISHED ⓘ George O’Brien NERFINISHED ⓘ J. Farrell MacDonald NERFINISHED ⓘ Lila Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Lillian Leighton NERFINISHED ⓘ Lydia Yeamans Titus NERFINISHED ⓘ Noah Beery NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Travers NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Santschi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Man Who Came Back NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: The Man Who Came Back (1924 film) Description of subject: The Man Who Came Back (1924 film) is a silent American drama feature best known today as one of the prominent screen vehicles for actress Lila Lee during the 1920s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.