Raggedy Man
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Raggedy Man is a 1981 American drama film, starring Sissy Spacek and Eric Roberts, about a divorced telephone operator in a small Texas town during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Raggedy Man canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10148876 — 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: Raggedy Man Context triple: [William D. Wittliff, notableWork, Raggedy Man]
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A.
The Raggedy Man
The Raggedy Man is a popular dialect poem by American writer James Whitcomb Riley that affectionately portrays a whimsical, storytelling handyman figure.
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B.
Rags
Rags is a 1986 Broadway musical with music by Charles Strouse that explores the struggles and aspirations of Jewish immigrants in early 20th-century America.
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C.
Rags
Rags is a lesser-known Broadway musical by composer Stephen Schwartz that explores the struggles and hopes of Jewish immigrants in early 20th-century America.
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D.
Rag Doll
"Rag Doll" is a hit rock song by Aerosmith, released in 1988 and known for its bluesy groove and prominent horn section.
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E.
The Little Orphan
The Little Orphan is a 1949 Tom and Jerry animated short film from MGM, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, featuring the duo caring for a hungry orphan mouse named Nibbles.
- 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: Raggedy Man Target entity description: Raggedy Man is a 1981 American drama film, starring Sissy Spacek and Eric Roberts, about a divorced telephone operator in a small Texas town during World War II.
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A.
The Raggedy Man
The Raggedy Man is a popular dialect poem by American writer James Whitcomb Riley that affectionately portrays a whimsical, storytelling handyman figure.
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B.
Rags
Rags is a 1986 Broadway musical with music by Charles Strouse that explores the struggles and aspirations of Jewish immigrants in early 20th-century America.
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C.
Rags
Rags is a lesser-known Broadway musical by composer Stephen Schwartz that explores the struggles and hopes of Jewish immigrants in early 20th-century America.
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D.
Rag Doll
"Rag Doll" is a hit rock song by Aerosmith, released in 1988 and known for its bluesy groove and prominent horn section.
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E.
The Little Orphan
The Little Orphan is a 1949 Tom and Jerry animated short film from MGM, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, featuring the duo caring for a hungry orphan mouse named Nibbles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | William D. Wittliff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Raggedy Man (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Ralf D. Bode NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | color ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| decadeOfRelease | 1980s ⓘ |
| director | Jack Fisk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Sidney Levin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasPoster | theatrical release poster ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
single motherhood
ⓘ
small-town life ⓘ wartime home front ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Nita Longley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterMaritalStatus | divorced ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | telephone operator ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG ⓘ |
| musicBy | Jerry Goldsmith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | feature film ⓘ |
| notableFor | Sissy Spacek performance ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Charles B. Moss Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1981-09-18 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 94 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | William D. Wittliff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| setInPeriod | World War II ⓘ |
| setInPlace | Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Eric Roberts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Shepard NERFINISHED ⓘ Sissy Spacek NERFINISHED ⓘ William Sanderson 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: Raggedy Man Description of subject: Raggedy Man is a 1981 American drama film, starring Sissy Spacek and Eric Roberts, about a divorced telephone operator in a small Texas town during World War II.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.