The Corn Is Green
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The Corn Is Green is a 1945 drama film adaptation of Emlyn Williams' play, starring Bette Davis as a determined schoolteacher who brings education to a Welsh mining village.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Corn Is Green canonical | 11 |
| The Corn Is Green (1945 film) | 1 |
| The Corn Is Green (play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8135471 — 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 Corn Is Green Context triple: [John Dall, notableWork, The Corn Is Green]
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A.
The Farmer Takes a Wife
The Farmer Takes a Wife is a 1934 romantic comedy play, later adapted into a film, about a canal boatman whose plans to settle down are complicated by love and changing times.
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B.
The Sower
The Sower is a prominent bronze statue symbolizing agriculture and human labor that crowns the tower of the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln.
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C.
The Sower
The Sower is a famous mid-19th-century painting by Jean-François Millet that powerfully depicts a peasant farmer sowing seeds, symbolizing rural labor and social realism.
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D.
A Corner in Wheat
A Corner in Wheat is a 1909 silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith that critiques capitalist greed through parallel stories of a ruthless wheat speculator and impoverished farmers.
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E.
The Ploughman
"The Ploughman" is a poem by Scottish national poet Robert Burns, reflecting his characteristic focus on rural life and common folk.
- 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 Corn Is Green Target entity description: The Corn Is Green is a 1945 drama film adaptation of Emlyn Williams' play, starring Bette Davis as a determined schoolteacher who brings education to a Welsh mining village.
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A.
The Farmer Takes a Wife
The Farmer Takes a Wife is a 1934 romantic comedy play, later adapted into a film, about a canal boatman whose plans to settle down are complicated by love and changing times.
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B.
The Sower
The Sower is a prominent bronze statue symbolizing agriculture and human labor that crowns the tower of the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln.
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C.
The Sower
The Sower is a famous mid-19th-century painting by Jean-François Millet that powerfully depicts a peasant farmer sowing seeds, symbolizing rural labor and social realism.
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D.
A Corner in Wheat
A Corner in Wheat is a 1909 silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith that critiques capitalist greed through parallel stories of a ruthless wheat speculator and impoverished farmers.
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E.
The Ploughman
"The Ploughman" is a poem by Scottish national poet Robert Burns, reflecting his characteristic focus on rural life and common folk.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Corn Is Green (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Emlyn Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Sol Polito NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Irving Rapper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Warner Bros. Pictures
ⓘ
surface form:
Warner Bros.
|
| distributorRegion |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| editedBy | Clarence Kolster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
education
ⓘ
rural community life ⓘ social mobility ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| leadActorForCharacter Miss Moffat | Bette Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadCharacter | Miss Moffat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Max Steiner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Actress
ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ⓘ Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ⓘ |
| nominee |
Bette Davis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joan Lorring NERFINISHED ⓘ John Dall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Hal B. Wallis ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1945-09-28 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1945 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 114 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Casey Robinson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Emlyn Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingEnvironment | Welsh mining village ⓘ |
| starring |
Bette Davis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joan Lorring NERFINISHED ⓘ John Dall NERFINISHED ⓘ Nigel Bruce NERFINISHED ⓘ Rhys Williams 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: The Corn Is Green Description of subject: The Corn Is Green is a 1945 drama film adaptation of Emlyn Williams' play, starring Bette Davis as a determined schoolteacher who brings education to a Welsh mining village.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Corn Is Green (play)
this entity surface form:
The Corn Is Green (1945 film)