They Drive by Night
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They Drive by Night is a 1940 American film noir–style drama about struggling truck drivers, directed by Raoul Walsh and starring George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, and Ann Sheridan.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| They Drive by Night canonical | 15 |
| They Drive by Night (screen adaptation work) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T890791 — 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: They Drive by Night Context triple: [Raoul Walsh, notableWork, They Drive by Night]
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A.
Drive, He Said
Drive, He Said is a 1971 American drama film directed by Jack Nicholson that explores campus unrest, basketball, and countercultural disillusionment during the Vietnam War era.
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B.
Hell’s Highway
Hell’s Highway is the nickname for the main Allied supply route used during Operation Market Garden in World War II, running through the Netherlands and including key crossings such as the Son bridge.
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C.
Thunder Road
Thunder Road is a critically acclaimed 1975 rock song by Bruce Springsteen that opens his album "Born to Run" and is celebrated for its cinematic storytelling and anthemic sound.
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D.
In a Lonely Place
In a Lonely Place is a 1950 film noir drama starring Humphrey Bogart as a troubled screenwriter suspected of murder, noted for its dark psychological complexity and cynical view of Hollywood and relationships.
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E.
L’Auto
L’Auto was a French sports newspaper best known for creating and organizing the Tour de France.
- 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: They Drive by Night Target entity description: They Drive by Night is a 1940 American film noir–style drama about struggling truck drivers, directed by Raoul Walsh and starring George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, and Ann Sheridan.
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A.
Drive, He Said
Drive, He Said is a 1971 American drama film directed by Jack Nicholson that explores campus unrest, basketball, and countercultural disillusionment during the Vietnam War era.
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B.
Hell’s Highway
Hell’s Highway is the nickname for the main Allied supply route used during Operation Market Garden in World War II, running through the Netherlands and including key crossings such as the Son bridge.
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C.
Thunder Road
Thunder Road is a critically acclaimed 1975 rock song by Bruce Springsteen that opens his album "Born to Run" and is celebrated for its cinematic storytelling and anthemic sound.
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D.
In a Lonely Place
In a Lonely Place is a 1950 film noir drama starring Humphrey Bogart as a troubled screenwriter suspected of murder, noted for its dark psychological complexity and cynical view of Hollywood and relationships.
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E.
L’Auto
L’Auto was a French sports newspaper best known for creating and organizing the Tour de France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: They Drive by Night Description of subject: They Drive by Night is a 1940 American film noir–style drama about struggling truck drivers, directed by Raoul Walsh and starring George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, and Ann Sheridan.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
They Drive by Night (screen adaptation work)