Tobacco Road
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Tobacco Road is a 1941 American film adaptation of Erskine Caldwell’s novel, known for its darkly comic portrayal of a destitute rural Georgia family during the Great Depression.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tobacco Road canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10381322 — 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: Tobacco Road Context triple: [Gene Tierney, notableWork, Tobacco Road]
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A.
Intruder in the Dust
Intruder in the Dust is a 1949 film adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel, notable as a socially conscious crime drama addressing racism in the American South.
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B.
Go Down, Moses
"Go Down, Moses" is a 1942 collection of interrelated short stories by William Faulkner that explores themes of race, family, and the legacy of the American South through the history of the McCaslin plantation.
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C.
Raintree County
Raintree County is a 1957 American epic historical drama film set during the Civil War era, known for its ambitious scope and for starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor.
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D.
Going to Meet the Man
Going to Meet the Man is a 1965 short story collection by James Baldwin that explores themes of race, violence, sexuality, and power in mid-20th-century America.
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E.
Thunderbolt, Georgia
Thunderbolt, Georgia is a small coastal town in Chatham County known for its historic shrimping industry and location along the Wilmington River just east of Savannah.
- 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: Tobacco Road Target entity description: Tobacco Road is a 1941 American film adaptation of Erskine Caldwell’s novel, known for its darkly comic portrayal of a destitute rural Georgia family during the Great Depression.
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A.
Intruder in the Dust
Intruder in the Dust is a 1949 film adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel, notable as a socially conscious crime drama addressing racism in the American South.
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B.
Go Down, Moses
"Go Down, Moses" is a 1942 collection of interrelated short stories by William Faulkner that explores themes of race, family, and the legacy of the American South through the history of the McCaslin plantation.
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C.
Raintree County
Raintree County is a 1957 American epic historical drama film set during the Civil War era, known for its ambitious scope and for starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor.
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D.
Going to Meet the Man
Going to Meet the Man is a 1965 short story collection by James Baldwin that explores themes of race, violence, sexuality, and power in mid-20th-century America.
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E.
Thunderbolt, Georgia
Thunderbolt, Georgia is a small coastal town in Chatham County known for its historic shrimping industry and location along the Wilmington River just east of Savannah.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Tobacco Road (novel) by Erskine Caldwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Erskine Caldwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Tobacco Road (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Ada Lester
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bessie Rice NERFINISHED ⓘ Dude Lester NERFINISHED ⓘ Ellie May Lester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Arthur C. Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | John Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Barbara McLean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
ⓘ
surface form:
Golden Age of Hollywood
|
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| filmScoreComposer | David Buttolph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
ⓘ
comedy-drama ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationType | literary adaptation ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadCharacter | Jeeter Lester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
family dynamics
ⓘ
poverty ⓘ rural life ⓘ |
| medium | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | struggle to keep family farm ⓘ |
| narrativeTime | Great Depression NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
controversial depiction of Southern sharecroppers
ⓘ
darkly comic portrayal of rural poverty ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Hollywood studio-era films ⓘ |
| portrays |
destitute sharecropper family
ⓘ
economic hardship in the American South ⓘ religious revivalism in rural South ⓘ tenant farming ⓘ |
| producer | Darryl F. Zanuck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfSourceWork | 1932 ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1940s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 84 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Nunnally Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| setInRegion | American South NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | rural Georgia ⓘ |
| title | Tobacco Road NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Tobacco Road Description of subject: Tobacco Road is a 1941 American film adaptation of Erskine Caldwell’s novel, known for its darkly comic portrayal of a destitute rural Georgia family during the Great Depression.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.