A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a 1945 American drama film adaptation of Betty Smith’s novel, focusing on a young girl’s coming-of-age in a poor Brooklyn family in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn canonical | 22 |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film) | 2 |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (film) | 2 |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T537413 — 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: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Context triple: [Elia Kazan, directed, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]
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A.
Little Women
Little Women is a classic coming-of-age novel by Louisa May Alcott that follows the lives, struggles, and personal growth of the four March sisters during and after the American Civil War.
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B.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
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C.
Shirley
Shirley is the given name of Shirley Ann Jackson, a prominent American physicist and trailblazing academic leader.
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D.
Shirley
Shirley is an English surname of Old English origin that has also become a common given name.
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E.
How Green Was My Valley
How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 drama film set in a Welsh mining community, renowned for its poignant depiction of family life and social change and for winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.
- 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: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Target entity description: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a 1945 American drama film adaptation of Betty Smith’s novel, focusing on a young girl’s coming-of-age in a poor Brooklyn family in the early 20th century.
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A.
Little Women
Little Women is a classic coming-of-age novel by Louisa May Alcott that follows the lives, struggles, and personal growth of the four March sisters during and after the American Civil War.
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B.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
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C.
Shirley
Shirley is the given name of Shirley Ann Jackson, a prominent American physicist and trailblazing academic leader.
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D.
Shirley
Shirley is an English surname of Old English origin that has also become a common given name.
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E.
How Green Was My Valley
How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 drama film set in a Welsh mining community, renowned for its poignant depiction of family life and social change and for winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
drama film
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film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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surface form:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel)
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| author | Betty Smith ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ⓘ |
| awardReceivedForWork |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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surface form:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film)
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| basedOn |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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surface form:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel)
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| cinematographyBy | Leon Shamroy ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| countryOfRelease |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depicts | early 20th-century Brooklyn ⓘ |
| director | Elia Kazan ⓘ |
| distributor |
20th Century Fox
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20th Century Fox ⓘ
surface form:
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
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| editedBy | Dorothy Spencer ⓘ |
| filmingStyle | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasTitle | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Francie Nolan ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Alfred Newman ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | young girl’s coming-of-age ⓘ |
| notableFor | Elia Kazan’s feature film directorial debut ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays |
Irish-American working-class family life
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struggles of a poor Brooklyn family ⓘ |
| producer | Louis D. Lighton ⓘ |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1945 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 129 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Frank Davis
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Tess Slesinger ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Brooklyn ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Dorothy McGuire
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James Dunn ⓘ James Gleason ⓘ Joan Blondell ⓘ Lloyd Nolan ⓘ Peggy Ann Garner ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general audience ⓘ |
| theme |
coming-of-age
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family relationships ⓘ poverty ⓘ |
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: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Description of subject: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a 1945 American drama film adaptation of Betty Smith’s novel, focusing on a young girl’s coming-of-age in a poor Brooklyn family in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Katie Nolan
subject surface form:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film)
this entity surface form:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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awardReceivedForWork
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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subject surface form:
James Dunn
this entity surface form:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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awardReceivedForWork
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Peggy Ann Garner
this entity surface form:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film)
subject surface form:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film)
this entity surface form:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (novel)
subject surface form:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film)
this entity surface form:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (film)
this entity surface form:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (film)