The Black Swan (1942 film)
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The Black Swan (1942 film) is a Technicolor swashbuckling adventure movie starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara, known for its pirate-themed romance and action on the high seas.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Black Swan (1942 film) canonical | 1 |
| The Black Swan (uncredited role) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13181042 — 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 Black Swan (1942 film) Context triple: [Frank Puglia, notableWork, The Black Swan (1942 film)]
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A.
The Swan (1956 film)
The Swan (1956 film) is a 1956 romantic comedy-drama about a princess torn between love and duty, starring Grace Kelly in one of her final film roles before becoming Princess of Monaco.
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B.
Black swan
The black swan is a large waterbird native to Australia, notable for its striking black plumage and red bill, and widely used as an emblem in Australian heraldry and symbolism.
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C.
The Great Gatsby (1949 film)
The Great Gatsby (1949 film) is a black-and-white drama adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, focusing on the tragic romance and moral decay of Jazz Age America.
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D.
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is a 1970 Italian giallo thriller film directed by Dario Argento that helped define the genre with its stylish visuals and suspenseful murder mystery.
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E.
White Swan and Black Swan
The White Swan and Black Swan are the contrasting dual roles in the ballet Swan Lake that symbolize innocence and seduction, often performed by the same ballerina to showcase her emotional and technical range.
- 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 Black Swan (1942 film) Target entity description: The Black Swan (1942 film) is a Technicolor swashbuckling adventure movie starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara, known for its pirate-themed romance and action on the high seas.
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A.
The Swan (1956 film)
The Swan (1956 film) is a 1956 romantic comedy-drama about a princess torn between love and duty, starring Grace Kelly in one of her final film roles before becoming Princess of Monaco.
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B.
Black swan
The black swan is a large waterbird native to Australia, notable for its striking black plumage and red bill, and widely used as an emblem in Australian heraldry and symbolism.
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C.
The Great Gatsby (1949 film)
The Great Gatsby (1949 film) is a black-and-white drama adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, focusing on the tragic romance and moral decay of Jazz Age America.
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D.
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage is a 1970 Italian giallo thriller film directed by Dario Argento that helped define the genre with its stylish visuals and suspenseful murder mystery.
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E.
White Swan and Black Swan
The White Swan and Black Swan are the contrasting dual roles in the ballet Swan Lake that symbolize innocence and seduction, often performed by the same ballerina to showcase her emotional and technical range.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
adventure film
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film ⓘ swashbuckler film ⓘ |
| academyAwardYear | 1943 ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Rafael Sabatini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardWon | Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Black Swan (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Leon Shamroy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Technicolor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Henry King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributionFormat | theatrical release ⓘ |
| distributor | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Barbara McLean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
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romance film ⓘ swashbuckler film ⓘ |
| hasColor | color ⓘ |
| leadCharacter |
Jamie Waring
NERFINISHED
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Lady Margaret Denby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Alfred Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
naval warfare
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piracy ⓘ romance ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Sound Recording NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | pirate-themed romance and action on the high seas ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Hollywood Golden Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portraysFictionalCharacter | Henry Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Robert Bassler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | December 4, 1942 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1942 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 87 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Ben Hecht
NERFINISHED
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Seton I. Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Caribbean Sea
NERFINISHED
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Jamaica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 17th century ⓘ |
| soundRecordingBy | Thomas T. Moulton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Anthony Quinn
NERFINISHED
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George Sanders NERFINISHED ⓘ Laird Cregar NERFINISHED ⓘ Maureen O'Hara NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Mitchell NERFINISHED ⓘ Tyrone Power 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: The Black Swan (1942 film) Description of subject: The Black Swan (1942 film) is a Technicolor swashbuckling adventure movie starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara, known for its pirate-themed romance and action on the high seas.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Black Swan (uncredited role)