My Favorite Wife
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My Favorite Wife is a 1940 screwball comedy film starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, centered on a presumed-dead wife who returns to find her husband newly remarried.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| My Favorite Wife canonical | 2 |
| My Favorite Wife (1940 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7495291 — 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: My Favorite Wife Context triple: [Irene Dunne, notableWork, My Favorite Wife]
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A.
My Favorite Husband
My Favorite Husband is a late-1940s American radio sitcom starring Lucille Ball that served as a precursor to and inspiration for the television series I Love Lucy.
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B.
My Wife and I
"My Wife and I" is a lesser-known domestic and social novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores marriage, morality, and middle-class life in the 19th century.
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C.
Four Wives
Four Wives is a 1939 American drama film, directed by Michael Curtiz, that continues the story of the Lane sisters from Four Daughters.
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D.
Occasional Wife
Occasional Wife is a 1960s American sitcom about a bachelor who enlists a woman to pose as his wife to advance his career, leading to comedic complications.
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E.
The Tender Husband
The Tender Husband is an early 18th-century English comedy play by Sir Richard Steele that satirizes marriage, manners, and social pretensions.
- 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: My Favorite Wife Target entity description: My Favorite Wife is a 1940 screwball comedy film starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, centered on a presumed-dead wife who returns to find her husband newly remarried.
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A.
My Favorite Husband
My Favorite Husband is a late-1940s American radio sitcom starring Lucille Ball that served as a precursor to and inspiration for the television series I Love Lucy.
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B.
My Wife and I
"My Wife and I" is a lesser-known domestic and social novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe that explores marriage, morality, and middle-class life in the 19th century.
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C.
Four Wives
Four Wives is a 1939 American drama film, directed by Michael Curtiz, that continues the story of the Lane sisters from Four Daughters.
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D.
Occasional Wife
Occasional Wife is a 1960s American sitcom about a bachelor who enlists a woman to pose as his wife to advance his career, leading to comedic complications.
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E.
The Tender Husband
The Tender Husband is an early 18th-century English comedy play by Sir Richard Steele that satirizes marriage, manners, and social pretensions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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screwball comedy film ⓘ |
| artDirector |
Mark-Lee Kirk
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Van Nest Polglase NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Enoch Arden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Rudolph Maté NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| costumeDesigner | Edward Stevenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director |
Alexander Hall
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Garson Kanin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | George Hively NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
ⓘ
surface form:
Golden Age of Hollywood
|
| features |
courtroom comedy elements
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mistaken identity ⓘ romantic triangle ⓘ |
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| genre |
romantic comedy film
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screwball comedy ⓘ |
| hasRemake | Move Over, Darling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Enoch Arden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadCharacter |
Ellen Arden
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nick Arden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme | marital confusion after presumed death ⓘ |
| musicBy | Roy Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Original Story NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A woman presumed dead in a shipwreck returns home after several years to find her husband has remarried, creating romantic and legal complications. ⓘ |
| portrays | bigamy in a comedic context ⓘ |
| producer | Leo McCarey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | RKO Radio Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionStatus | released ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1940-05-17 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1940 ⓘ |
| remadeAs | Move Over, Darling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 88 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Bella Spewack
NERFINISHED
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Leo McCarey NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Spewack NERFINISHED ⓘ Samson Raphaelson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| soundMix | mono ⓘ |
| starring |
Cary Grant
NERFINISHED
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Gail Patrick NERFINISHED ⓘ Irene Dunne NERFINISHED ⓘ Randolph Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | My Favorite Wife NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: My Favorite Wife Description of subject: My Favorite Wife is a 1940 screwball comedy film starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, centered on a presumed-dead wife who returns to find her husband newly remarried.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
My Favorite Wife (1940 film)