The Watsons Go to Birmingham
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham is a 2013 television film adaptation of Christopher Paul Curtis’s novel about an African American family’s life-changing trip from Flint, Michigan, to Birmingham, Alabama, during the civil rights era.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 | 2 |
| The Watsons Go to Birmingham canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10078774 — 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 Watsons Go to Birmingham Context triple: [Tonya Lewis Lee, producerOf, The Watsons Go to Birmingham]
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A.
The Learning Tree
The Learning Tree is a semi-autobiographical novel by Gordon Parks that portrays an African American boy’s coming-of-age in 1920s Kansas amid racism and moral conflict.
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B.
Sounder
Sounder is a regional commuter rail service in the Seattle metropolitan area operated by Sound Transit, providing weekday passenger trains primarily between Seattle, Tacoma, and Everett.
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C.
Sounder
Sounder is a 1972 American drama film about an African American sharecropping family in the Great Depression, acclaimed for its powerful storytelling and performances.
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D.
The Secret Life of Bees
The Secret Life of Bees is a 2008 coming-of-age drama film, based on Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, that follows a young girl in 1960s South Carolina who finds refuge with a group of beekeeping sisters amid racial and personal turmoil.
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E.
The Watsons
"The Watsons" is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen that explores themes of social class, marriage, and female dependence through the story of a young woman re-entering her birth family’s precarious world.
- 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 Watsons Go to Birmingham Target entity description: The Watsons Go to Birmingham is a 2013 television film adaptation of Christopher Paul Curtis’s novel about an African American family’s life-changing trip from Flint, Michigan, to Birmingham, Alabama, during the civil rights era.
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A.
The Learning Tree
The Learning Tree is a semi-autobiographical novel by Gordon Parks that portrays an African American boy’s coming-of-age in 1920s Kansas amid racism and moral conflict.
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B.
Sounder
Sounder is a regional commuter rail service in the Seattle metropolitan area operated by Sound Transit, providing weekday passenger trains primarily between Seattle, Tacoma, and Everett.
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C.
Sounder
Sounder is a 1972 American drama film about an African American sharecropping family in the Great Depression, acclaimed for its powerful storytelling and performances.
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D.
The Secret Life of Bees
The Secret Life of Bees is a 2008 coming-of-age drama film, based on Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, that follows a young girl in 1960s South Carolina who finds refuge with a group of beekeeping sisters amid racial and personal turmoil.
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E.
The Watsons
"The Watsons" is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen that explores themes of social class, marriage, and female dependence through the story of a young woman re-entering her birth family’s precarious world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf |
The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963
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linked to:
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
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| adaptationType | novel adaptation ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963
ⓘ
linked to:
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
|
| basedOnAuthor | Christopher Paul Curtis ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| depictsEvent | American civil rights struggle ⓘ |
| featuresEthnicGroup | African American family ⓘ |
| genre |
family film
ⓘ
historical drama ⓘ |
| hasLiterarySource | children's novel ⓘ |
| hasTitleCharacter | Watson family ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
family unity
ⓘ
racism ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
coming-of-age
ⓘ
family trip ⓘ racial segregation ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| productionType | made-for-television film ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2013 ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Birmingham, Alabama
ⓘ
linked to:
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Flint, Michigan ⓘ |
| subject | civil rights movement ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
family
ⓘ
young adults ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
1960s
ⓘ
civil rights era ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Watsons Go to Birmingham Description of subject: The Watsons Go to Birmingham is a 2013 television film adaptation of Christopher Paul Curtis’s novel about an African American family’s life-changing trip from Flint, Michigan, to Birmingham, Alabama, during the civil rights era.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Watsons Go to Birmingham
linked to: The Watsons Go to Birmingham