The Guinea Pig
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"The Guinea Pig" is a 1948 British drama film about a working-class boy who wins a scholarship to an elite public school, exploring class barriers and social mobility.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Guinea Pig canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6571065 — 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 Guinea Pig Context triple: [Sheila Sim, notableWork, The Guinea Pig]
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A.
Coelhos
Coelhos is a neighborhood located in the city of Recife, in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil.
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B.
The Rat
The Rat is a 1925 British silent crime drama film, based on a popular stage play, that helped cement Ivor Novello’s status as a major screen star.
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C.
The Rat
"The Rat" is a darkly satirical novel by Günter Grass that blends dystopian fantasy and political allegory to explore themes of human self-destruction and environmental catastrophe.
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D.
The Brown Bunny
The Brown Bunny is a 2003 independent road drama film written, directed by, and starring Vincent Gallo, notorious for its explicit content and polarizing reception at the Cannes Film Festival.
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E.
Basil the Rat
Basil the Rat is the final episode of the British sitcom *Fawlty Towers*, known for its chaotic storyline involving a health inspector and a loose pet rat in the hotel.
- 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 Guinea Pig Target entity description: "The Guinea Pig" is a 1948 British drama film about a working-class boy who wins a scholarship to an elite public school, exploring class barriers and social mobility.
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A.
Coelhos
Coelhos is a neighborhood located in the city of Recife, in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil.
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B.
The Rat
The Rat is a 1925 British silent crime drama film, based on a popular stage play, that helped cement Ivor Novello’s status as a major screen star.
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C.
The Rat
"The Rat" is a darkly satirical novel by Günter Grass that blends dystopian fantasy and political allegory to explore themes of human self-destruction and environmental catastrophe.
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D.
The Brown Bunny
The Brown Bunny is a 2003 independent road drama film written, directed by, and starring Vincent Gallo, notorious for its explicit content and polarizing reception at the Cannes Film Festival.
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E.
Basil the Rat
Basil the Rat is the final episode of the British sitcom *Fawlty Towers*, known for its chaotic storyline involving a health inspector and a loose pet rat in the hotel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British drama film
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film ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | The Outsider NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Guinea Pig (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Warren Chetham-Strode NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| BBFCClassification | X (original UK release) ⓘ |
| cinematography | Max Greene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Roy Boulting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | General Film Distributors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Roy Boulting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
cultural assimilation
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education and class ⓘ social reform ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jack Read NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterPortrayedBy | Richard Attenborough NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Benjamin Frankel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
class barriers
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social mobility ⓘ |
| notableFor | early use of working-class protagonist in British public school drama ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A working-class boy wins a scholarship to an elite public school and struggles with class prejudice and adaptation. ⓘ |
| producer | John Boulting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Pilgrim Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseCountry | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1948 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 96 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Frank Harvey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sidney Gilliat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | elite English public school ⓘ |
| starring |
Bernard Miles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cecil Trouncer NERFINISHED ⓘ Edith Sharpe NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Attenborough NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Flemyng NERFINISHED ⓘ Sheila Sim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | post-World War II Britain ⓘ |
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 Guinea Pig Description of subject: "The Guinea Pig" is a 1948 British drama film about a working-class boy who wins a scholarship to an elite public school, exploring class barriers and social mobility.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.