Intolerance
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Intolerance is a 1916 American silent epic film by D. W. Griffith that interweaves four parallel stories from different historical periods to explore the destructive effects of prejudice and persecution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Intolerance canonical | 26 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T450222 — 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: Intolerance Context triple: [D. W. Griffith, notableWork, Intolerance]
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Iconoclastic Fury
Iconoclastic Fury was a wave of Protestant mob attacks on Catholic churches and religious images in the Low Countries in 1566, which helped ignite the broader conflict of the Eighty Years' War.
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B.
Cynicism
Cynicism is an ancient Greek philosophical school that advocates living in accordance with nature through radical simplicity, self-sufficiency, and rejection of conventional social values.
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C.
Revenge
Revenge was an English galleon of the Elizabethan navy, famed for its heroic last stand against a vastly superior Spanish fleet in 1591 under Sir Richard Grenville.
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D.
Revenge
Revenge is an American television drama series centered on a young woman who infiltrates an affluent Hamptons community to exact vengeance on those who destroyed her family.
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E.
On Contradiction
"On Contradiction" is a 1937 philosophical essay by Mao Zedong that systematically applies and develops Marxist dialectical materialism to analyze the nature and role of contradictions in social and historical processes.
- 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: Intolerance Target entity description: Intolerance is a 1916 American silent epic film by D. W. Griffith that interweaves four parallel stories from different historical periods to explore the destructive effects of prejudice and persecution.
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A.
Iconoclastic Fury
Iconoclastic Fury was a wave of Protestant mob attacks on Catholic churches and religious images in the Low Countries in 1566, which helped ignite the broader conflict of the Eighty Years' War.
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B.
Cynicism
Cynicism is an ancient Greek philosophical school that advocates living in accordance with nature through radical simplicity, self-sufficiency, and rejection of conventional social values.
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C.
Revenge
Revenge was an English galleon of the Elizabethan navy, famed for its heroic last stand against a vastly superior Spanish fleet in 1591 under Sir Richard Grenville.
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D.
Revenge
Revenge is an American television drama series centered on a young woman who infiltrates an affluent Hamptons community to exact vengeance on those who destroyed her family.
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E.
On Contradiction
"On Contradiction" is a 1937 philosophical essay by Mao Zedong that systematically applies and develops Marxist dialectical materialism to analyze the nature and role of contradictions in social and historical processes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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epic film ⓘ feature film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| artDirectionBy | Walter L. Hall ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | G. W. Bitzer ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | D. W. Griffith ⓘ |
| distributor | Triangle Distributing ⓘ |
| filmTechnique | silent ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
epic ⓘ historical film ⓘ |
| hasPart |
The Babylonian Story
ⓘ
The French Renaissance Story ⓘ The Judean Story ⓘ The Modern Story ⓘ |
| includedIn | National Film Registry ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | public and critical reaction to The Birth of a Nation ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
intolerance
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persecution ⓘ prejudice ⓘ |
| musicBy | Joseph Carl Breil ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | parallel intercutting of four stories ⓘ |
| notableFor |
innovative cross-cutting between multiple storylines
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large-scale Babylonian sets ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Silent film with English intertitles ⓘ |
| premiereLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| producer | D. W. Griffith ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Triangle Film Corporation ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | landmark of early cinema ⓘ |
| releaseDate | September 5, 1916 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1916 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 197 ⓘ |
| setting |
16th-century France
ⓘ
Judea at the time of Jesus ⓘ Babylon ⓘ
surface form:
ancient Babylon
contemporary America (early 20th century) ⓘ |
| stars |
Constance Talmadge
ⓘ
Lillian Gish ⓘ Mae Marsh ⓘ Miriam Cooper ⓘ Robert Harron ⓘ Walter Long ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted |
16th century
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1st-century Judea ⓘ Mesopotamia ⓘ
surface form:
ancient Mesopotamia
early 20th century ⓘ |
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Referenced by (26)
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