The Pied Piper
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The Pied Piper is a 1942 American drama film set during World War II, following an Englishman who helps evacuate children from Nazi-occupied France.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Pied Piper canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6688768 — 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 Pied Piper Context triple: [Glen MacWilliams, workedOn, The Pied Piper]
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A.
Pied Piper of Hamelin
The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a legendary figure from German folklore who lures away the town’s children with his magical pipe after being refused payment for ridding it of rats.
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B.
The Snake Charmer
The Snake Charmer is a famous 19th-century Orientalist painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme depicting a young performer handling a snake before an enthralled audience in an exoticized Middle Eastern setting.
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C.
The Snake Charmer
The Snake Charmer is a famous 1907 painting by French Post-Impressionist artist Henri Rousseau, depicting a mysterious figure playing a flute to enchant snakes in a lush, dreamlike jungle.
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D.
Puckman
Puckman is the ice hockey–themed mascot representing Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s athletic teams.
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E.
Hansel & Gretel
Hansel & Gretel is a popular ballet adaptation of the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale about two siblings who outwit a witch in a magical forest.
- 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 Pied Piper Target entity description: The Pied Piper is a 1942 American drama film set during World War II, following an Englishman who helps evacuate children from Nazi-occupied France.
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A.
Pied Piper of Hamelin
The Pied Piper of Hamelin is a legendary figure from German folklore who lures away the town’s children with his magical pipe after being refused payment for ridding it of rats.
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B.
The Snake Charmer
The Snake Charmer is a famous 19th-century Orientalist painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme depicting a young performer handling a snake before an enthralled audience in an exoticized Middle Eastern setting.
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C.
The Snake Charmer
The Snake Charmer is a famous 1907 painting by French Post-Impressionist artist Henri Rousseau, depicting a mysterious figure playing a flute to enchant snakes in a lush, dreamlike jungle.
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D.
Puckman
Puckman is the ice hockey–themed mascot representing Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s athletic teams.
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E.
Hansel & Gretel
Hansel & Gretel is a popular ballet adaptation of the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale about two siblings who outwit a witch in a magical forest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Pied Piper (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Nevil Shute NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
Anne Baxter
NERFINISHED
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J. Carrol Naish NERFINISHED ⓘ J. M. Kerrigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Jill Esmond NERFINISHED ⓘ Lester Matthews NERFINISHED ⓘ Monty Woolley NERFINISHED ⓘ Otto Preminger NERFINISHED ⓘ Peggy Ann Garner NERFINISHED ⓘ Roddy McDowall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Edward Cronjager NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Irving Pichel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Barbara McLean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | theatrical feature film ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasWikipediaPage | true ⓘ |
| isBlackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| leadActor | Monty Woolley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActorNominated | Monty Woolley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Alfred Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
children in wartime
ⓘ
courage ⓘ escape ⓘ responsibility ⓘ war ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Actor
ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Picture ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | An Englishman in Nazi-occupied France helps evacuate a growing group of children to safety. ⓘ |
| producer | Nunnally Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistDescription | elderly Englishman ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1940s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1942 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 87 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Nunnally Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPlace |
France
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nazi-occupied France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: The Pied Piper Description of subject: The Pied Piper is a 1942 American drama film set during World War II, following an Englishman who helps evacuate children from Nazi-occupied France.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.