The Old-Fashioned Way (1934 film)
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The Old-Fashioned Way is a 1934 American comedy film starring W.C. Fields as a vaudeville troupe leader, featuring Betty Bronson in a supporting role.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Old-Fashioned Way (1934 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6993656 — 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 Old-Fashioned Way (1934 film) Context triple: [Betty Bronson, performedIn, The Old-Fashioned Way (1934 film)]
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A.
Smilin’ Through (1932)
Smilin’ Through (1932) is a romantic drama film from Hollywood’s early sound era, best known as a prestige MGM production featuring themes of love, loss, and spiritual reunion.
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B.
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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C.
Old Fashioned
Old Fashioned is a classic American whiskey cocktail typically made with bourbon or rye, sugar, bitters, and a citrus twist, served over ice.
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D.
The Good Companions (1933 film)
The Good Companions (1933 film) is a British comedy-drama adaptation of J.B. Priestley’s novel, following a group of misfits who join a touring concert party in search of new beginnings.
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E.
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.
- 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 Old-Fashioned Way (1934 film) Target entity description: The Old-Fashioned Way is a 1934 American comedy film starring W.C. Fields as a vaudeville troupe leader, featuring Betty Bronson in a supporting role.
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A.
Smilin’ Through (1932)
Smilin’ Through (1932) is a romantic drama film from Hollywood’s early sound era, best known as a prestige MGM production featuring themes of love, loss, and spiritual reunion.
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B.
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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C.
Old Fashioned
Old Fashioned is a classic American whiskey cocktail typically made with bourbon or rye, sugar, bitters, and a citrus twist, served over ice.
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D.
The Good Companions (1933 film)
The Good Companions (1933 film) is a British comedy-drama adaptation of J.B. Priestley’s novel, following a group of misfits who join a touring concert party in search of new beginnings.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Poppy (character created by W. C. Fields)
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Poppy (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Henry Sharp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| director | William Beaudine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | LeRoy Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Pre-Code Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | The Great McGonigle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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comedy film ⓘ |
| hasSupportingActor |
Baby LeRoy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Betty Bronson NERFINISHED ⓘ Jan Duggan NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Morrison NERFINISHED ⓘ Judith Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ Oscar Apfel NERFINISHED ⓘ Tammany Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Old-Fashioned Way NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadCharacter | The Great McGonigle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | John Leipold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
featuring W. C. Fields as a vaudeville troupe leader
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
including a juggler routine performed by W. C. Fields ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | W. C. Fields filmography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | W. C. Fields NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | William LeBaron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1934-06-22 ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1930s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1934 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 71 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Jack Cunningham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | vaudeville troupe ⓘ |
| starring |
Baby LeRoy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Betty Bronson NERFINISHED ⓘ Jan Duggan NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Morrison NERFINISHED ⓘ Judith Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ Oscar Apfel NERFINISHED ⓘ Tammany Young NERFINISHED ⓘ W. C. Fields 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 Old-Fashioned Way (1934 film) Description of subject: The Old-Fashioned Way is a 1934 American comedy film starring W.C. Fields as a vaudeville troupe leader, featuring Betty Bronson in a supporting role.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.