Back Street (1941 film)
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Back Street (1941 film) is a 1941 romantic drama movie, starring Charles Boyer and Margaret Sullavan, adapted from Fannie Hurst’s novel about a woman who devotes her life to a married man.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Back Street (1941 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13392493 — 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: Back Street (1941 film) Context triple: [Fannie Hurst, notableAdaptationOfWork, Back Street (1941 film)]
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Back Street (1932 film)
Back Street (1932 film) is a pre-Code romantic drama directed by John M. Stahl, adapted from Fannie Hurst’s novel about a woman who spends her life as the devoted mistress of a married man.
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Back Street (1961 film)
Back Street (1961 film) is a 1961 romantic drama film adaptation of Fannie Hurst’s novel, focusing on a woman’s lifelong, unfulfilled love for a married man.
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Strike Up the Band (1940 film)
Strike Up the Band (1940 film) is a 1940 MGM musical comedy starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney about high school students who form a band to compete in a national contest.
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D.
"The Street" (1946)
"The Street" (1946) is Ann Petry’s groundbreaking novel that portrays the struggles of a Black woman in Harlem and is celebrated as a landmark work in African American literature.
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E.
Backfire (1950 film)
Backfire (1950 film) is a 1950 American film noir crime drama centered on a wounded World War II veteran drawn into a web of mystery and deception while searching for his missing friend.
- 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: Back Street (1941 film) Target entity description: Back Street (1941 film) is a 1941 romantic drama movie, starring Charles Boyer and Margaret Sullavan, adapted from Fannie Hurst’s novel about a woman who devotes her life to a married man.
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A.
Back Street (1932 film)
Back Street (1932 film) is a pre-Code romantic drama directed by John M. Stahl, adapted from Fannie Hurst’s novel about a woman who spends her life as the devoted mistress of a married man.
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B.
Back Street (1961 film)
Back Street (1961 film) is a 1961 romantic drama film adaptation of Fannie Hurst’s novel, focusing on a woman’s lifelong, unfulfilled love for a married man.
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C.
Strike Up the Band (1940 film)
Strike Up the Band (1940 film) is a 1940 MGM musical comedy starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney about high school students who form a band to compete in a national contest.
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D.
"The Street" (1946)
"The Street" (1946) is Ann Petry’s groundbreaking novel that portrays the struggles of a Black woman in Harlem and is celebrated as a landmark work in African American literature.
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E.
Backfire (1950 film)
Backfire (1950 film) is a 1950 American film noir crime drama centered on a wounded World War II veteran drawn into a web of mystery and deception while searching for his missing friend.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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romantic drama film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Back Street (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Fannie Hurst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Ray Schmidt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Raymond Devereaux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | William C. Mellor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | black-and-white ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Robert Stevenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributor | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editor | Milton Carruth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Back Street (1961 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | romantic drama ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
extramarital affair
ⓘ
self-sacrifice ⓘ unrequited love ⓘ |
| isAdaptationOf | Back Street (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActor | Charles Boyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActress | Margaret Sullavan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Frank Skinner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A woman devotes her life to a married man with whom she has a long-term affair. ⓘ |
| portrays | a long-term relationship between a married man and his mistress ⓘ |
| precededBy | Back Street (1932 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Walter Wanger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Walter Wanger Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfSource | 1931 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | January 30, 1941 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 89 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Bruce Manning
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Felix Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| starring |
Charles Boyer
NERFINISHED
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Fay Bainter NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank McHugh NERFINISHED ⓘ Margaret Sullavan NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Carlson NERFINISHED ⓘ Samuel S. Hinds NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Holt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Back Street 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: Back Street (1941 film) Description of subject: Back Street (1941 film) is a 1941 romantic drama movie, starring Charles Boyer and Margaret Sullavan, adapted from Fannie Hurst’s novel about a woman who devotes her life to a married man.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.