To Have and to Hold (1916 film)
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To Have and to Hold (1916 film) is a silent American drama feature directed by George Melford, adapted from Mary Johnston’s popular historical romance novel set in colonial Virginia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| To Have and to Hold (1916 film) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7006410 — 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: To Have and to Hold (1916 film) Context triple: [George Melford, notableWork, To Have and to Hold (1916 film)]
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A.
The Divorcee (1930)
The Divorcee (1930) is a pre-Code American drama film, produced at MGM, that became notable for its frank treatment of marriage and infidelity and earned Norma Shearer an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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B.
The Divorcee (1919 film)
The Divorcee (1919 film) is a 1919 American silent drama film best known for featuring early screen actress Jean Acker in a prominent role.
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C.
A Damsel in Distress
"A Damsel in Distress" is a 1937 Hollywood musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire, known for its elaborate dance sequences and Gershwin songs.
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D.
You Belong to Me (1934)
You Belong to Me (1934) is an American film best known for featuring actor Lee Tracy in a prominent role.
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E.
The Battle of the Sexes (1914 film)
The Battle of the Sexes (1914 film) is a silent drama directed by D. W. Griffith that explores marital infidelity and gender conflict in early 20th-century America.
- 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: To Have and to Hold (1916 film) Target entity description: To Have and to Hold (1916 film) is a silent American drama feature directed by George Melford, adapted from Mary Johnston’s popular historical romance novel set in colonial Virginia.
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A.
The Divorcee (1930)
The Divorcee (1930) is a pre-Code American drama film, produced at MGM, that became notable for its frank treatment of marriage and infidelity and earned Norma Shearer an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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B.
The Divorcee (1919 film)
The Divorcee (1919 film) is a 1919 American silent drama film best known for featuring early screen actress Jean Acker in a prominent role.
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C.
A Damsel in Distress
"A Damsel in Distress" is a 1937 Hollywood musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire, known for its elaborate dance sequences and Gershwin songs.
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D.
You Belong to Me (1934)
You Belong to Me (1934) is an American film best known for featuring actor Lee Tracy in a prominent role.
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E.
The Battle of the Sexes (1914 film)
The Battle of the Sexes (1914 film) is a silent drama directed by D. W. Griffith that explores marital infidelity and gender conflict in early 20th-century America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | silent film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Mary Johnston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | To Have and to Hold (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Percy Hilburn (French) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | George Melford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedAs | Paramount Program feature ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| era | silent era ⓘ |
| filmColor | black and white ⓘ |
| format | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| genre |
historical drama film
ⓘ
romantic drama film ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| isAdaptationOf | historical romance novel ⓘ |
| language | Silent film (English intertitles) ⓘ |
| mainCharacterFromSourceWork |
Lady Jocelyn Leigh
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ralph Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | adaptation of Mary Johnston’s bestselling novel ⓘ |
| partOf | American silent feature films of the 1910s ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Famous Players Film Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1916 ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Colonial Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceWorkPublicationYear | 1900 ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Bob Fleming
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ernest Joy NERFINISHED ⓘ Forrest Stanley NERFINISHED ⓘ Guy Oliver NERFINISHED ⓘ Horace B. Carpenter NERFINISHED ⓘ James Neill NERFINISHED ⓘ Jane Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Jane Wolfe NERFINISHED ⓘ Katherine Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucien Littlefield NERFINISHED ⓘ Mabel Van Buren NERFINISHED ⓘ Mae Murray NERFINISHED ⓘ Mrs. Lewis McCord NERFINISHED ⓘ Page Peters NERFINISHED ⓘ Tex Driscoll NERFINISHED ⓘ Theodore Roberts NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Forman NERFINISHED ⓘ Wallace Reid 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: To Have and to Hold (1916 film) Description of subject: To Have and to Hold (1916 film) is a silent American drama feature directed by George Melford, adapted from Mary Johnston’s popular historical romance novel set in colonial Virginia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.