Sunny (1930 film)
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Sunny (1930 film) is an American pre-Code musical comedy film adaptation of the Jerome Kern–Oscar Hammerstein II stage musical, starring Marilyn Miller in one of her notable screen roles.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sunny (1930 film) canonical | 1 |
| Sunny (1941 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10954516 — 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: Sunny (1930 film) Context triple: [Sunny, hasFilmAdaptation, Sunny (1930 film)]
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A.
The Divorcee (1930)
The Divorcee (1930) is a pre-Code American drama film, produced at MGM, that became notable for its frank treatment of marriage and infidelity and earned Norma Shearer an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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B.
Smilin’ Through (1932)
Smilin’ Through (1932) is a romantic drama film from Hollywood’s early sound era, best known as a prestige MGM production featuring themes of love, loss, and spiritual reunion.
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C.
The Goldwyn Girls
The Goldwyn Girls were a glamorous chorus line of singing and dancing women featured in numerous Samuel Goldwyn musical films of the 1930s and 1940s, often serving as a launching pad for future Hollywood stars.
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D.
Sons of the Desert
Sons of the Desert is a classic 1933 Laurel and Hardy comedy film in which the duo scheme to attend a fraternal lodge convention without their wives finding out.
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E.
A Place in the Sun
A Place in the Sun is a multi-platinum 1999 country album by Tim McGraw that features several hit singles and helped solidify his status as a major star in the genre.
- 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: Sunny (1930 film) Target entity description: Sunny (1930 film) is an American pre-Code musical comedy film adaptation of the Jerome Kern–Oscar Hammerstein II stage musical, starring Marilyn Miller in one of her notable screen roles.
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A.
The Divorcee (1930)
The Divorcee (1930) is a pre-Code American drama film, produced at MGM, that became notable for its frank treatment of marriage and infidelity and earned Norma Shearer an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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B.
Smilin’ Through (1932)
Smilin’ Through (1932) is a romantic drama film from Hollywood’s early sound era, best known as a prestige MGM production featuring themes of love, loss, and spiritual reunion.
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C.
The Goldwyn Girls
The Goldwyn Girls were a glamorous chorus line of singing and dancing women featured in numerous Samuel Goldwyn musical films of the 1930s and 1940s, often serving as a launching pad for future Hollywood stars.
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D.
Sons of the Desert
Sons of the Desert is a classic 1933 Laurel and Hardy comedy film in which the duo scheme to attend a fraternal lodge convention without their wives finding out.
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E.
A Place in the Sun
A Place in the Sun is a multi-platinum 1999 country album by Tim McGraw that features several hit singles and helped solidify his status as a major star in the genre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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musical comedy film ⓘ pre-Code film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Sunny (stage musical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Sunny (stage musical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Jerome Kern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| era | early sound era ⓘ |
| featureFilmDebutOf | Marilyn Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
musical film ⓘ |
| hasLyricsBy | Oscar Hammerstein II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicBy | Jerome Kern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProductionType | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Sunny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | film adaptation ⓘ |
| isPartOf | American musical film tradition ⓘ |
| lyricist | Oscar Hammerstein II ⓘ |
| medium | sound film ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | feature-length film ⓘ |
| notableRoleFor | Marilyn Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| productionCodeEra | pre-Code Hollywood ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1930 ⓘ |
| starring | Marilyn Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Sunny (1930 film) Description of subject: Sunny (1930 film) is an American pre-Code musical comedy film adaptation of the Jerome Kern–Oscar Hammerstein II stage musical, starring Marilyn Miller in one of her notable screen roles.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sunny (1941 film)