The Criminal Code
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The Criminal Code is a 1931 American pre-Code prison drama film directed by Howard Hawks, noted for its gritty depiction of the justice system and early performance by Boris Karloff.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Criminal Code canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12762850 — 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 Criminal Code Context triple: [Jo Swerling, wroteScreenplayFor, The Criminal Code]
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A.
Criminal Code of Canada (federal jurisdiction)
The Criminal Code of Canada (federal jurisdiction) is the primary federal statute that comprehensively defines criminal offences and procedures applicable throughout Canada.
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B.
Penal Code
The Penal Code is Japan’s primary criminal law statute that defines offenses and prescribes corresponding punishments.
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C.
Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China
The Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China is the fundamental statute that defines crimes, penalties, and principles of criminal responsibility within China's legal system.
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D.
Código Penal
Código Penal is the principal codified body of criminal law in Chile that defines crimes, penalties, and general rules of criminal responsibility.
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E.
Ley de Enjuiciamiento Criminal
La Ley de Enjuiciamiento Criminal es la norma básica que regula el proceso penal en España, estableciendo las reglas para la investigación, enjuiciamiento y resolución de los delitos.
- 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 Criminal Code Target entity description: The Criminal Code is a 1931 American pre-Code prison drama film directed by Howard Hawks, noted for its gritty depiction of the justice system and early performance by Boris Karloff.
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A.
Criminal Code of Canada (federal jurisdiction)
The Criminal Code of Canada (federal jurisdiction) is the primary federal statute that comprehensively defines criminal offences and procedures applicable throughout Canada.
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B.
Penal Code
The Penal Code is Japan’s primary criminal law statute that defines offenses and prescribes corresponding punishments.
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C.
Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China
The Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China is the fundamental statute that defines crimes, penalties, and principles of criminal responsibility within China's legal system.
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D.
Código Penal
Código Penal is the principal codified body of criminal law in Chile that defines crimes, penalties, and general rules of criminal responsibility.
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E.
Ley de Enjuiciamiento Criminal
La Ley de Enjuiciamiento Criminal es la norma básica que regula el proceso penal en España, estableciendo las reglas para la investigación, enjuiciamiento y resolución de los delitos.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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 Criminal Code Description of subject: The Criminal Code is a 1931 American pre-Code prison drama film directed by Howard Hawks, noted for its gritty depiction of the justice system and early performance by Boris Karloff.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.