The Lost Weekend
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The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American film noir drama directed by Billy Wilder that powerfully portrays an alcoholic writer’s harrowing four-day drinking binge.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Lost Weekend canonical | 20 |
| The Lost Weekend (1945 film) | 1 |
| The Lost Weekend (novel) | 1 |
| The Lost Weekend (uncredited appearance) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T639445 — 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 Lost Weekend Context triple: [Jane Wyman, notableWork, The Lost Weekend]
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A.
The Beautiful and Damned
The Beautiful and Damned is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1922 Jazz Age novel that portrays the troubled marriage and moral decline of Anthony and Gloria Patch amid their pursuit of wealth and status.
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B.
On the Town
On the Town is a 1944 Broadway musical with music by Leonard Bernstein that follows three sailors on 24-hour shore leave in New York City, later adapted into a popular 1949 film.
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C.
Tender Is the Night
Tender Is the Night is a 1934 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald that portrays the glamorous yet tragic lives of an American psychiatrist and his wife on the French Riviera.
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D.
The Philadelphia Story
The Philadelphia Story is a classic 1939 romantic comedy play by Philip Barry, best known through its acclaimed 1940 film adaptation starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and James Stewart.
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E.
The Snake Pit
The Snake Pit is a 1948 psychological drama film about a woman’s harrowing experiences in a mental institution, noted for its early, serious depiction of mental illness.
- 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 Lost Weekend Target entity description: The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American film noir drama directed by Billy Wilder that powerfully portrays an alcoholic writer’s harrowing four-day drinking binge.
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A.
The Beautiful and Damned
The Beautiful and Damned is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1922 Jazz Age novel that portrays the troubled marriage and moral decline of Anthony and Gloria Patch amid their pursuit of wealth and status.
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B.
On the Town
On the Town is a 1944 Broadway musical with music by Leonard Bernstein that follows three sailors on 24-hour shore leave in New York City, later adapted into a popular 1949 film.
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C.
Tender Is the Night
Tender Is the Night is a 1934 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald that portrays the glamorous yet tragic lives of an American psychiatrist and his wife on the French Riviera.
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D.
The Philadelphia Story
The Philadelphia Story is a classic 1939 romantic comedy play by Philip Barry, best known through its acclaimed 1940 film adaptation starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and James Stewart.
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E.
The Snake Pit
The Snake Pit is a 1948 psychological drama film about a woman’s harrowing experiences in a mental institution, noted for its early, serious depiction of mental illness.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Lost Weekend Description of subject: The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American film noir drama directed by Billy Wilder that powerfully portrays an alcoholic writer’s harrowing four-day drinking binge.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Lost Weekend (novel)
this entity surface form:
The Lost Weekend (uncredited appearance)
Farther and Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson
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this entity surface form:
The Lost Weekend (1945 film)