The Tamarind Seed
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The Tamarind Seed is a 1974 British romantic spy film starring Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif, adapted from Evelyn Anthony’s novel and set against the backdrop of Cold War intrigue.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Tamarind Seed canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10513695 — 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 Tamarind Seed Context triple: [Sylvia Syms, notableWork, The Tamarind Seed]
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A.
The Clinging Vine
The Clinging Vine is a 1926 silent comedy film starring Leatrice Joy as a supposedly meek woman who cleverly subverts expectations about femininity and independence.
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B.
Dragon Seed
"Dragon Seed" is a 1944 American war drama film set in Japanese-occupied China during World War II, adapted from Pearl S. Buck’s novel and known for its portrayal of Chinese villagers resisting invasion.
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C.
The Tree
"The Tree" is a minimalist abstract painting by American artist Agnes Martin, exemplifying her serene grid-based style and meditative approach to art.
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D.
The Four Trees
The Four Trees is one of Claude Monet’s Poplars paintings, depicting a stand of trees along the Epte River in his characteristic Impressionist style.
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E.
The Big Guava
The Big Guava is a popular nickname for Tampa, Florida, highlighting the city's historical ties to the guava fruit and its playful echo of New York's "Big Apple" moniker.
- 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 Tamarind Seed Target entity description: The Tamarind Seed is a 1974 British romantic spy film starring Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif, adapted from Evelyn Anthony’s novel and set against the backdrop of Cold War intrigue.
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A.
The Clinging Vine
The Clinging Vine is a 1926 silent comedy film starring Leatrice Joy as a supposedly meek woman who cleverly subverts expectations about femininity and independence.
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B.
Dragon Seed
"Dragon Seed" is a 1944 American war drama film set in Japanese-occupied China during World War II, adapted from Pearl S. Buck’s novel and known for its portrayal of Chinese villagers resisting invasion.
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C.
The Tree
"The Tree" is a minimalist abstract painting by American artist Agnes Martin, exemplifying her serene grid-based style and meditative approach to art.
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D.
The Four Trees
The Four Trees is one of Claude Monet’s Poplars paintings, depicting a stand of trees along the Epte River in his characteristic Impressionist style.
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E.
The Big Guava
The Big Guava is a popular nickname for Tampa, Florida, highlighting the city's historical ties to the guava fruit and its playful echo of New York's "Big Apple" moniker.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
romantic spy film ⓘ |
| author | Evelyn Anthony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Tamarind Seed (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
Anthony Quayle
NERFINISHED
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Bryan Marshall NERFINISHED ⓘ Dan O’Herlihy NERFINISHED ⓘ David Baron NERFINISHED ⓘ Julie Andrews NERFINISHED ⓘ Omar Sharif NERFINISHED ⓘ Oskar Homolka NERFINISHED ⓘ Sharon Duce NERFINISHED ⓘ Sylvia Syms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography | Freddie Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | John Barry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfSetting |
Barbados
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
France NERFINISHED ⓘ Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Blake Edwards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Rank Film Distributors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Ralph E. Winters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Barbados
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
romantic film ⓘ spy film ⓘ |
| hasOriginalScore | The Tamarind Seed (soundtrack) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme | romance between a British civil servant and a Soviet military attaché ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Cold War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | John Barry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation |
Barbados
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
London NERFINISHED ⓘ Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Blake Edwards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Blake Edwards
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ken Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | ITC Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1974 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1974 ⓘ |
| runtime | 125 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Blake Edwards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Cold War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Julie Andrews
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Omar Sharif 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 Tamarind Seed Description of subject: The Tamarind Seed is a 1974 British romantic spy film starring Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif, adapted from Evelyn Anthony’s novel and set against the backdrop of Cold War intrigue.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.