A Kid for Two Farthings
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A Kid for Two Farthings is a 1955 British drama film set in London’s East End that follows a young boy who believes his pet goat is a magical unicorn capable of granting wishes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A Kid for Two Farthings canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10660216 — 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: A Kid for Two Farthings Context triple: [Carol Reed, notableWork, A Kid for Two Farthings]
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A.
The Gingham Girl
The Gingham Girl is a 1927 American silent romantic comedy film starring Australian actress Lotus Thompson.
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B.
The Post-Office Girl
The Post-Office Girl is a posthumously published novel by Stefan Zweig that follows a poor Austrian postal clerk whose brief taste of luxury exposes the brutal social and economic inequalities of post–World War I Europe.
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C.
Caddiegal
Caddiegal is an alternative name for the Gadigal, an Aboriginal group of the Eora Nation traditionally associated with the area around present-day Sydney, Australia.
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D.
The Errand Boy
The Errand Boy is a 1961 American comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, in which he plays a bumbling studio gofer causing chaos behind the scenes in Hollywood.
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E.
The Errand Boy
The Errand Boy is a 19th-century rags-to-riches novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor youth striving for success through hard work and perseverance.
- 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: A Kid for Two Farthings Target entity description: A Kid for Two Farthings is a 1955 British drama film set in London’s East End that follows a young boy who believes his pet goat is a magical unicorn capable of granting wishes.
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A.
The Gingham Girl
The Gingham Girl is a 1927 American silent romantic comedy film starring Australian actress Lotus Thompson.
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B.
The Post-Office Girl
The Post-Office Girl is a posthumously published novel by Stefan Zweig that follows a poor Austrian postal clerk whose brief taste of luxury exposes the brutal social and economic inequalities of post–World War I Europe.
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C.
Caddiegal
Caddiegal is an alternative name for the Gadigal, an Aboriginal group of the Eora Nation traditionally associated with the area around present-day Sydney, Australia.
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D.
The Errand Boy
The Errand Boy is a 1961 American comedy film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, in which he plays a bumbling studio gofer causing chaos behind the scenes in Hollywood.
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E.
The Errand Boy
The Errand Boy is a 19th-century rags-to-riches novel by Horatio Alger Jr. that follows a poor youth striving for success through hard work and perseverance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Wolf Mankowitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | A Kid for Two Farthings (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Edward Scaife NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Technicolor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Carol Reed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | British Lion Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Bert Bates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| filmingProcess | Technicolor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasAnimalCharacter | goat ⓘ |
| hasMotif | unicorn ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Joe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Benjamin Frankel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeElement | a boy believes his pet goat is a unicorn ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
childhood innocence
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hope ⓘ poverty ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | British cinema of the 1950s ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A young boy in London’s East End believes his pet goat is a unicorn that can grant wishes. ⓘ |
| producer | Carol Reed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | London Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1955 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1955 ⓘ |
| runtime | 96 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Wolf Mankowitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
East End of London
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| starring |
Brenda De Banzie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Celia Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ David Kossoff NERFINISHED ⓘ Diana Dors NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ Jonathan Ashmore NERFINISHED ⓘ Sid James NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general audience ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | post-war London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: A Kid for Two Farthings Description of subject: A Kid for Two Farthings is a 1955 British drama film set in London’s East End that follows a young boy who believes his pet goat is a magical unicorn capable of granting wishes.
Referenced by (1)
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