Sounder
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Sounder is a 1972 American drama film about an African American sharecropping family in the Great Depression, acclaimed for its powerful storytelling and performances.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sounder canonical | 9 |
| Sounder (1972 film) | 1 |
| Sounder (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7368651 — 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: Sounder Context triple: [John A. Alonzo, notableWork, Sounder]
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A.
Sounder
Sounder is a regional commuter rail service in the Seattle metropolitan area operated by Sound Transit, providing weekday passenger trains primarily between Seattle, Tacoma, and Everett.
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B.
The Learning Tree
The Learning Tree is a semi-autobiographical novel by Gordon Parks that portrays an African American boy’s coming-of-age in 1920s Kansas amid racism and moral conflict.
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C.
Sula
Sula is a coastal municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway, known for its fishing industry, maritime heritage, and scenic island landscapes.
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D.
Sula
Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison that explores Black female friendship, community, and identity in a small Ohio town.
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E.
The Unvanquished
The Unvanquished is a novel by William Faulkner that follows a Southern family's experiences during and after the American Civil War, exploring themes of honor, change, and the legacy of the Old South.
- 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: Sounder Target entity description: Sounder is a 1972 American drama film about an African American sharecropping family in the Great Depression, acclaimed for its powerful storytelling and performances.
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A.
Sounder
Sounder is a regional commuter rail service in the Seattle metropolitan area operated by Sound Transit, providing weekday passenger trains primarily between Seattle, Tacoma, and Everett.
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B.
The Learning Tree
The Learning Tree is a semi-autobiographical novel by Gordon Parks that portrays an African American boy’s coming-of-age in 1920s Kansas amid racism and moral conflict.
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C.
Sula
Sula is a coastal municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway, known for its fishing industry, maritime heritage, and scenic island landscapes.
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D.
Sula
Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison that explores Black female friendship, community, and identity in a small Ohio town.
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E.
The Unvanquished
The Unvanquished is a novel by William Faulkner that follows a Southern family's experiences during and after the American Civil War, exploring themes of honor, change, and the legacy of the Old South.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Sounder Description of subject: Sounder is a 1972 American drama film about an African American sharecropping family in the Great Depression, acclaimed for its powerful storytelling and performances.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.