The Emperor Jones (1933 film)
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The Emperor Jones (1933 film) is an American drama starring Paul Robeson that follows the rise and fall of a Pullman porter who becomes the tyrannical ruler of a Caribbean island.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Emperor Jones (film) | 2 |
| The Emperor Jones (1933 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11576626 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Emperor Jones (1933 film) Context triple: [The Emperor Jones, adaptedAs, The Emperor Jones (1933 film)]
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The Hurricane (1937 film)
The Hurricane (1937 film) is a 1937 American disaster drama directed by John Ford, renowned for its groundbreaking special effects depicting a devastating tropical storm in the South Pacific.
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B.
M (1931 film)
M (1931 film) is a landmark German thriller directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its pioneering use of sound and its chilling portrayal of a child murderer hunted by both police and criminals.
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C.
The Ten Commandments (1923 film)
The Ten Commandments (1923 film) is a silent epic directed by Cecil B. DeMille that combines a biblical dramatization of Moses receiving the commandments with a contemporary morality tale about their relevance in modern life.
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D.
Cane (1923)
Cane (1923) is a landmark modernist work by Jean Toomer that blends poetry, drama, and prose to depict African American life in the rural South and urban North during the early 20th century.
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E.
Man, the Unknown
Man, the Unknown is a 1935 book by French surgeon and biologist Alexis Carrel that explores human biology, psychology, and spirituality in an attempt to define the nature and potential of human beings.
- 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 Emperor Jones (1933 film) Target entity description: The Emperor Jones (1933 film) is an American drama starring Paul Robeson that follows the rise and fall of a Pullman porter who becomes the tyrannical ruler of a Caribbean island.
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A.
The Hurricane (1937 film)
The Hurricane (1937 film) is a 1937 American disaster drama directed by John Ford, renowned for its groundbreaking special effects depicting a devastating tropical storm in the South Pacific.
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B.
M (1931 film)
M (1931 film) is a landmark German thriller directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its pioneering use of sound and its chilling portrayal of a child murderer hunted by both police and criminals.
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C.
The Ten Commandments (1923 film)
The Ten Commandments (1923 film) is a silent epic directed by Cecil B. DeMille that combines a biblical dramatization of Moses receiving the commandments with a contemporary morality tale about their relevance in modern life.
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D.
Cane (1923)
Cane (1923) is a landmark modernist work by Jean Toomer that blends poetry, drama, and prose to depict African American life in the rural South and urban North during the early 20th century.
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E.
Man, the Unknown
Man, the Unknown is a 1935 book by French surgeon and biologist Alexis Carrel that explores human biology, psychology, and spirituality in an attempt to define the nature and potential of human beings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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 Emperor Jones (1933 film) Description of subject: The Emperor Jones (1933 film) is an American drama starring Paul Robeson that follows the rise and fall of a Pullman porter who becomes the tyrannical ruler of a Caribbean island.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Emperor Jones (1933 film)
linked to: The Emperor Jones (1933 film)