The Young Lions
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The Young Lions is a 1958 World War II drama film, based on Irwin Shaw’s novel, that follows intersecting stories of soldiers on both the American and German sides and features Dean Martin in one of his most acclaimed dramatic roles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Young Lions canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4725010 — 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 Young Lions Context triple: [Dean Martin, notableWork, The Young Lions]
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A.
The Magnificent Yankee
The Magnificent Yankee is a 1950 biographical film in which Louis Calhern portrays U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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B.
Kings Row
Kings Row is a 1942 American drama film set in a small Midwestern town, known for its dark exploration of social hypocrisy and psychological trauma.
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C.
The Seven Good Years
The Seven Good Years is a celebrated work of Yiddish literature by I. L. Peretz that reflects Jewish life and culture with a blend of realism, folklore, and moral insight.
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D.
One of Ours
One of Ours is a Pulitzer Prize–winning 1922 novel by Willa Cather that follows a young Nebraskan man's search for purpose culminating in his experiences as a soldier in World War I.
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E.
The Spoils of War
The Spoils of War is the English rendering of the title of Surah Al-Anfal, an eighth chapter of the Qur’an that addresses issues of warfare, distribution of war gains, and obedience to God and His Messenger.
- 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 Young Lions Target entity description: The Young Lions is a 1958 World War II drama film, based on Irwin Shaw’s novel, that follows intersecting stories of soldiers on both the American and German sides and features Dean Martin in one of his most acclaimed dramatic roles.
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A.
The Magnificent Yankee
The Magnificent Yankee is a 1950 biographical film in which Louis Calhern portrays U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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B.
Kings Row
Kings Row is a 1942 American drama film set in a small Midwestern town, known for its dark exploration of social hypocrisy and psychological trauma.
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C.
The Seven Good Years
The Seven Good Years is a celebrated work of Yiddish literature by I. L. Peretz that reflects Jewish life and culture with a blend of realism, folklore, and moral insight.
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D.
One of Ours
One of Ours is a Pulitzer Prize–winning 1922 novel by Willa Cather that follows a young Nebraskan man's search for purpose culminating in his experiences as a soldier in World War I.
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E.
The Spoils of War
The Spoils of War is the English rendering of the title of Surah Al-Anfal, an eighth chapter of the Qur’an that addresses issues of warfare, distribution of war gains, and obedience to God and His Messenger.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drama film
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film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | The Young Lions (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Irwin Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Young Lions (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| follows | intersecting stories of American and German soldiers ⓘ |
| genre |
World War II film
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war drama ⓘ |
| hasRole | Dean Martin as an American soldier ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
contrasting perspectives of opposing armies
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morality in wartime ⓘ soldiers’ personal struggles ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | World War II ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | both American and German sides of the war ⓘ |
| notableCastMember |
Dean Martin
NERFINISHED
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Marlon Brando NERFINISHED ⓘ Montgomery Clift NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | one of Dean Martin’s most acclaimed dramatic roles ⓘ |
| productionEra | 1950s American cinema ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1958 ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | Second World War 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 Young Lions Description of subject: The Young Lions is a 1958 World War II drama film, based on Irwin Shaw’s novel, that follows intersecting stories of soldiers on both the American and German sides and features Dean Martin in one of his most acclaimed dramatic roles.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.