The Mad Genius (1931 film)
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The Mad Genius (1931 film) is a pre-Code American drama starring John Barrymore as a ruthless ballet impresario who manipulates a young dancer’s career and love life.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Mad Genius (1931 film) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10090765 — 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 Mad Genius (1931 film) Context triple: [Marian Marsh, starredIn, The Mad Genius (1931 film)]
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A.
Mad Love (1935 film)
Mad Love (1935 film) is a 1935 horror thriller directed by Karl Freund, noted for Peter Lorre’s chilling performance as an obsessed surgeon whose unrequited love drives him to macabre experiments.
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B.
Sherlock Jr.
Sherlock Jr. is a 1924 silent comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton, celebrated for its innovative special effects and inventive, self-referential storytelling about a projectionist who dreams himself into a movie.
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C.
Bulldog Drummond (1929 film)
Bulldog Drummond (1929 film) is an early sound-era British-American adventure thriller in which Ronald Colman stars as a bored ex-soldier seeking excitement who becomes entangled in crime and romance.
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D.
M (1931 film)
M (1931 film) is a landmark German thriller directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its pioneering use of sound and its chilling portrayal of a child murderer hunted by both police and criminals.
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E.
Smilin’ Through (1932)
Smilin’ Through (1932) is a romantic drama film from Hollywood’s early sound era, best known as a prestige MGM production featuring themes of love, loss, and spiritual reunion.
- 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 Mad Genius (1931 film) Target entity description: The Mad Genius (1931 film) is a pre-Code American drama starring John Barrymore as a ruthless ballet impresario who manipulates a young dancer’s career and love life.
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A.
Mad Love (1935 film)
Mad Love (1935 film) is a 1935 horror thriller directed by Karl Freund, noted for Peter Lorre’s chilling performance as an obsessed surgeon whose unrequited love drives him to macabre experiments.
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B.
Sherlock Jr.
Sherlock Jr. is a 1924 silent comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton, celebrated for its innovative special effects and inventive, self-referential storytelling about a projectionist who dreams himself into a movie.
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C.
Bulldog Drummond (1929 film)
Bulldog Drummond (1929 film) is an early sound-era British-American adventure thriller in which Ronald Colman stars as a bored ex-soldier seeking excitement who becomes entangled in crime and romance.
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D.
M (1931 film)
M (1931 film) is a landmark German thriller directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its pioneering use of sound and its chilling portrayal of a child murderer hunted by both police and criminals.
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E.
Smilin’ Through (1932)
Smilin’ Through (1932) is a romantic drama film from Hollywood’s early sound era, best known as a prestige MGM production featuring themes of love, loss, and spiritual reunion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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 Mad Genius (1931 film) Description of subject: The Mad Genius (1931 film) is a pre-Code American drama starring John Barrymore as a ruthless ballet impresario who manipulates a young dancer’s career and love life.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.