The Woman in White (1917 film)
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The Woman in White (1917 film) is a silent drama adaptation of Wilkie Collins's classic mystery novel, featuring Howard Hickman in a prominent role.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Woman in White (1917 film) canonical | 3 |
| The Woman in White (1929 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10286069 — 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 Woman in White (1917 film) Context triple: [Howard Hickman, notableWork, The Woman in White (1917 film)]
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A.
The Lodger (1932)
The Lodger (1932) is a British thriller film adaptation of Marie Belloc Lowndes' novel about a mysterious tenant suspected of being a serial killer, directed by Maurice Elvey.
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B.
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog is a 1927 British silent thriller film widely regarded as Alfred Hitchcock’s first true suspense masterpiece, centering on a mysterious tenant suspected of being a serial killer.
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C.
The Woman in White
The Woman in White is a stage musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, adapted from Wilkie Collins’s Victorian mystery novel about identity, deception, and a haunting female figure.
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D.
The Lady in White
The Lady in White is a 1988 supernatural mystery-horror film in which Lukas Haas stars as a young boy who witnesses a ghostly apparition and uncovers a long-buried murder.
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E.
The White Sister (1923 film)
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.
- 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 Woman in White (1917 film) Target entity description: The Woman in White (1917 film) is a silent drama adaptation of Wilkie Collins's classic mystery novel, featuring Howard Hickman in a prominent role.
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A.
The Lodger (1932)
The Lodger (1932) is a British thriller film adaptation of Marie Belloc Lowndes' novel about a mysterious tenant suspected of being a serial killer, directed by Maurice Elvey.
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B.
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog is a 1927 British silent thriller film widely regarded as Alfred Hitchcock’s first true suspense masterpiece, centering on a mysterious tenant suspected of being a serial killer.
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C.
The Woman in White
The Woman in White is a stage musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, adapted from Wilkie Collins’s Victorian mystery novel about identity, deception, and a haunting female figure.
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D.
The Lady in White
The Lady in White is a 1988 supernatural mystery-horror film in which Lukas Haas stars as a young boy who witnesses a ghostly apparition and uncovers a long-buried murder.
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E.
The White Sister (1923 film)
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOfGenre | mystery novel ⓘ |
| adaptationOfWork | The Woman in White (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Woman in White NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Wilkie Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| feature | intertitles ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
mystery film ⓘ |
| hasCastMember | Howard Hickman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProminentRoleBy | Howard Hickman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Woman in White NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isAdaptation | true ⓘ |
| isBlackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| isFeatureLength | true ⓘ |
| language | Silent ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1910s ⓘ |
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 Woman in White (1917 film) Description of subject: The Woman in White (1917 film) is a silent drama adaptation of Wilkie Collins's classic mystery novel, featuring Howard Hickman in a prominent role.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Woman in White (1929 film)