Tarzan of the Apes (1918 film)
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Tarzan of the Apes (1918 film) is a silent adventure movie that marks the first feature-length screen adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous jungle hero Tarzan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tarzan of the Apes (1918 film) canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9283505 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tarzan of the Apes (1918 film) Context triple: [Tarzan films, includesFilm, Tarzan of the Apes (1918 film)]
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A.
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film) is a classic pre-Code adventure movie that introduced Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan and helped establish the character’s enduring cinematic legacy.
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B.
Tarzan the Ape Man
Tarzan the Ape Man is a 1932 adventure film that introduced Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in his iconic role as Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle hero Tarzan.
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C.
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a 1984 British adventure drama film that offers a realistic, character-driven retelling of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan story, focusing on the hero’s dual identity between the African jungle and British aristocracy.
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D.
Tarzan Finds a Son!
Tarzan Finds a Son! is a 1939 adventure film in the Tarzan series, notable for starring Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan and introducing the character of Boy as his adopted son.
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E.
Tarzan's New York Adventure
Tarzan's New York Adventure is a 1942 jungle-adventure film in the long-running Tarzan series, featuring Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan traveling to New York City to rescue his kidnapped son.
- 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: Tarzan of the Apes (1918 film) Target entity description: Tarzan of the Apes (1918 film) is a silent adventure movie that marks the first feature-length screen adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous jungle hero Tarzan.
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A.
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film) is a classic pre-Code adventure movie that introduced Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan and helped establish the character’s enduring cinematic legacy.
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B.
Tarzan the Ape Man
Tarzan the Ape Man is a 1932 adventure film that introduced Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in his iconic role as Edgar Rice Burroughs’ jungle hero Tarzan.
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C.
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a 1984 British adventure drama film that offers a realistic, character-driven retelling of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan story, focusing on the hero’s dual identity between the African jungle and British aristocracy.
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D.
Tarzan Finds a Son!
Tarzan Finds a Son! is a 1939 adventure film in the Tarzan series, notable for starring Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan and introducing the character of Boy as his adopted son.
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E.
Tarzan's New York Adventure
Tarzan's New York Adventure is a 1942 jungle-adventure film in the long-running Tarzan series, featuring Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan traveling to New York City to rescue his kidnapped son.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | silent adventure film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf |
Tarzan literary character
ⓘ
linked to:
Tarzan
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| basedOn |
Tarzan of the Apes (novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
Tarzan of the Apes
|
| basedOnWorkBy | Edgar Rice Burroughs ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuresCharacter | Jane Porter ⓘ |
| genre |
Adventure film
ⓘ
Silent film ⓘ |
| hasEra | silent film era ⓘ |
| hasFictionalUniverse |
Tarzan universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Tarzan films
|
| hasFormat | Black-and-white film ⓘ |
| hasNotableAspect | first feature-length Tarzan film adaptation ⓘ |
| hasProtagonistType | jungle hero ⓘ |
| hasSourceMaterialGenre | Adventure novel ⓘ |
| isFirstFeatureLengthAdaptationOf | Tarzan character ⓘ |
| language | Silent film ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Tarzan ⓘ |
| medium | Cinema ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise | Tarzan films ⓘ |
| portrays | origin story of Tarzan ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1918 ⓘ |
| setIn | African jungle ⓘ |
| title | Tarzan of the Apes ⓘ |
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: Tarzan of the Apes (1918 film) Description of subject: Tarzan of the Apes (1918 film) is a silent adventure movie that marks the first feature-length screen adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous jungle hero Tarzan.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.