The White Sister (1923 film)
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The White Sister (1923 film) is a silent romantic drama directed by Henry King and starring Lillian Gish, adapted from F. Marion Crawford’s novel about a young woman who becomes a nun after believing her lover has died.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The White Sister (1923 film) canonical | 4 |
| The White Sister (1933 film) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10101644 — 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: The White Sister (1923 film) Context triple: [Henry King, notableWork, The White Sister (1923 film)]
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A.
The White Sheep (1924)
The White Sheep (1924) is a silent comedy film best known for featuring Australian-born comic actor Clyde Cook in a leading role.
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B.
Mother (1926 film)
Mother (1926 film) is a seminal Soviet silent drama directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, renowned for its innovative use of montage and its powerful depiction of revolutionary struggle.
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C.
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is a 1946 film noir drama about a woman whose childhood crime entangles her in a web of guilt, blackmail, and doomed relationships.
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D.
The Dark Angel (1925 film)
The Dark Angel (1925 film) is a silent romantic drama starring Ronald Colman, noted for its emotionally charged love triangle and its status as one of his early defining screen performances.
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E.
Three Women (1907–1908)
Three Women (1907–1908) is an early 20th-century painting by Pablo Picasso that exemplifies his transition toward Cubism under the strong influence of African sculpture and masks.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The White Sister (1923 film) Target entity description: The White Sister (1923 film) is a silent romantic drama directed by Henry King and starring Lillian Gish, adapted from F. Marion Crawford’s novel about a young woman who becomes a nun after believing her lover has died.
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A.
The White Sheep (1924)
The White Sheep (1924) is a silent comedy film best known for featuring Australian-born comic actor Clyde Cook in a leading role.
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B.
Mother (1926 film)
Mother (1926 film) is a seminal Soviet silent drama directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, renowned for its innovative use of montage and its powerful depiction of revolutionary struggle.
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C.
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is a 1946 film noir drama about a woman whose childhood crime entangles her in a web of guilt, blackmail, and doomed relationships.
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D.
The Dark Angel (1925 film)
The Dark Angel (1925 film) is a silent romantic drama starring Ronald Colman, noted for its emotionally charged love triangle and its status as one of his early defining screen performances.
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E.
Three Women (1907–1908)
Three Women (1907–1908) is an early 20th-century painting by Pablo Picasso that exemplifies his transition toward Cubism under the strong influence of African sculpture and masks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | silent film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | F. Marion Crawford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The White Sister (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Henry King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Metro Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | silent era ⓘ |
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| filmingLocations |
Italy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
romantic drama
ⓘ
silent drama ⓘ |
| hasIntertitlesLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasRemake | The White Sister (1933 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActorForCharacter |
Lillian Gish as Angela Chiaromonte
ⓘ
Ronald Colman as Giovanni Severi ⓘ |
| leadCharacter |
Angela Chiaromonte
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Giovanni Severi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | celluloid film ⓘ |
| musicForReleases | accompanied by various musical scores in later screenings ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
religious devotion
ⓘ
romantic love ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Lillian Gish’s performance
ⓘ
location shooting in Italy ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Silent film (English intertitles) ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A young woman becomes a nun after believing her lover has died, only to face a conflict when he returns alive. ⓘ |
| producer |
Charles H. Duell Jr.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Inspiration Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel Goldwyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Inspiration Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1923 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 135 minutes ⓘ |
| setting | Italy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Alfred Allen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charles Lane NERFINISHED ⓘ Gail Kane NERFINISHED ⓘ George MacQuarrie NERFINISHED ⓘ J. Barney Sherry NERFINISHED ⓘ John Miljan NERFINISHED ⓘ Lillian Gish NERFINISHED ⓘ Ronald Colman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 20th century ⓘ |
| title | The White Sister 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 White Sister (1923 film) Description of subject: The White Sister (1923 film) is a silent romantic drama directed by Henry King and starring Lillian Gish, adapted from F. Marion Crawford’s novel about a young woman who becomes a nun after believing her lover has died.
Referenced by (6)
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this entity surface form:
The White Sister (1933 film)
this entity surface form:
The White Sister (1933 film)