An Act of Murder
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An Act of Murder is a 1948 American film noir drama about a principled judge who secretly plans his terminally ill wife's death to spare her suffering, only to face a moral and legal reckoning.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| An Act of Murder canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12731129 — 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: An Act of Murder Context triple: [Florence Eldridge, notableWork, An Act of Murder]
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A.
The Murder
"The Murder" is the iconic, shrieking string cue composed by Bernard Herrmann for Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, most famously underscoring the film’s shower scene.
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B.
There Was a Murder
"There Was a Murder" is a track by hip-hop duo Clipse from their 2009 album "Til the Casket Drops."
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C.
Experiment in Murder
Experiment in Murder is a crime novel set within the Capital Crimes series universe, following a high-stakes investigation into a deadly and intricately planned killing.
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D.
The Murderer
The Murderer is a novel by Guyanese writer Roy Heath, known for its psychologically intense portrayal of a man's descent into obsession and violence in a Caribbean setting.
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E.
A Murder is Announced
A Murder is Announced is a classic Miss Marple detective novel by Agatha Christie, centered on a village newspaper notice that chillingly predicts the time and place of an impending murder.
- 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: An Act of Murder Target entity description: An Act of Murder is a 1948 American film noir drama about a principled judge who secretly plans his terminally ill wife's death to spare her suffering, only to face a moral and legal reckoning.
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A.
The Murder
"The Murder" is the iconic, shrieking string cue composed by Bernard Herrmann for Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, most famously underscoring the film’s shower scene.
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B.
There Was a Murder
"There Was a Murder" is a track by hip-hop duo Clipse from their 2009 album "Til the Casket Drops."
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C.
Experiment in Murder
Experiment in Murder is a crime novel set within the Capital Crimes series universe, following a high-stakes investigation into a deadly and intricately planned killing.
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D.
The Murderer
The Murderer is a novel by Guyanese writer Roy Heath, known for its psychologically intense portrayal of a man's descent into obsession and violence in a Caribbean setting.
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E.
A Murder is Announced
A Murder is Announced is a classic Miss Marple detective novel by Agatha Christie, centered on a village newspaper notice that chillingly predicts the time and place of an impending murder.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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drama film ⓘ film ⓘ film noir ⓘ |
| basedOn | story by Ernst Lothar ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| CannesFilmFestivalSection | competition ⓘ |
| CannesFilmFestivalYear | 1949 ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Woody Bredell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| director | Michael Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discussesTheme |
family relationships
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justice ⓘ mercy killing ⓘ |
| distributor | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Edward Curtiss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| festivalScreening | Cannes Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
film noir ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Catherine Cooke
NERFINISHED
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David Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ Judge Calvin Cooke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Daniele Amfitheatrof NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
euthanasia
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legal ethics ⓘ moral dilemma ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Ann Doran
NERFINISHED
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Bert Freed NERFINISHED ⓘ Charles Lane NERFINISHED ⓘ Edmond O'Brien NERFINISHED ⓘ Florence Eldridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Cady NERFINISHED ⓘ Fredric March NERFINISHED ⓘ Frieda Inescort NERFINISHED ⓘ Geraldine Brooks NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Harvey NERFINISHED ⓘ Howland Chamberlain NERFINISHED ⓘ John McIntire NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanley Ridges NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia Brissac NERFINISHED ⓘ Will Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Jerry Bresler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal-International Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1948 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 91 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Michael Blankfort
NERFINISHED
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Robert Thoeren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| title | An Act of Murder 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: An Act of Murder Description of subject: An Act of Murder is a 1948 American film noir drama about a principled judge who secretly plans his terminally ill wife's death to spare her suffering, only to face a moral and legal reckoning.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.