The Old Maid
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The Old Maid is a 1939 American drama film, based on Edith Wharton’s novella and starring Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins, about two cousins whose lives are shattered by a long-held secret over a child.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Old Maid canonical | 4 |
| The Old Maid (1939 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9250809 — 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 Maid Context triple: [Edmund Goulding, directed, The Old Maid]
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A.
The Old Maid
The Old Maid is a 1935 stage play by Zoë Akins, adapted from Edith Wharton’s novella, best known for its acclaimed Broadway production starring Helen Menken.
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B.
The White Old Maid
"The White Old Maid" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, notable for its Gothic atmosphere and themes of guilt and lifelong penance.
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C.
The Old Lady
The Old Lady is a recurring comic character from Fontaine Fox’s early 20th-century newspaper strip "Toonerville Folks," known for embodying the quaint, humorous charm of small-town life.
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D.
The Old-Fashioned Woman
The Old-Fashioned Woman is a sociological study by Elsie Clews Parsons that critically examines traditional gender roles and the cultural expectations placed on women in early 20th-century society.
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E.
The Old Wives’ Tale
The Old Wives’ Tale is a 1908 novel by Arnold Bennett that traces the contrasting lives of two sisters from a Staffordshire draper’s shop through decades of social change in England and France.
- 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 Maid Target entity description: The Old Maid is a 1939 American drama film, based on Edith Wharton’s novella and starring Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins, about two cousins whose lives are shattered by a long-held secret over a child.
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A.
The Old Maid
The Old Maid is a 1935 stage play by Zoë Akins, adapted from Edith Wharton’s novella, best known for its acclaimed Broadway production starring Helen Menken.
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B.
The White Old Maid
"The White Old Maid" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, notable for its Gothic atmosphere and themes of guilt and lifelong penance.
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C.
The Old Lady
The Old Lady is a recurring comic character from Fontaine Fox’s early 20th-century newspaper strip "Toonerville Folks," known for embodying the quaint, humorous charm of small-town life.
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D.
The Old-Fashioned Woman
The Old-Fashioned Woman is a sociological study by Elsie Clews Parsons that critically examines traditional gender roles and the cultural expectations placed on women in early 20th-century society.
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E.
The Old Wives’ Tale
The Old Wives’ Tale is a 1908 novel by Arnold Bennett that traces the contrasting lives of two sisters from a Staffordshire draper’s shop through decades of social change in England and France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | The Old Maid (novella) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Old Maid (novella) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Edith Wharton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Tony Gaudio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Edmund Goulding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedInFormat | theatrical film ⓘ |
| distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Warren Low NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
family secrets
ⓘ
motherhood ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ social reputation ⓘ |
| leadActress |
Bette Davis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Miriam Hopkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Max Steiner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | two cousins and a long-held secret over a child ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer |
Hal B. Wallis
ⓘ
Henry Blanke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1930s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1939 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 95 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Casey Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| setInPeriod | American Civil War era ⓘ |
| sourceMaterialAuthor | Edith Wharton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceMaterialGenre | novella ⓘ |
| starring |
Bette Davis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Donald Crisp NERFINISHED ⓘ George Brent NERFINISHED ⓘ James Stephenson NERFINISHED ⓘ Jane Bryan NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerome Cowan NERFINISHED ⓘ Louise Fazenda NERFINISHED ⓘ Miriam Hopkins NERFINISHED ⓘ William Lundigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Old Maid 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 Old Maid Description of subject: The Old Maid is a 1939 American drama film, based on Edith Wharton’s novella and starring Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins, about two cousins whose lives are shattered by a long-held secret over a child.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Old Maid (1939 film)