They Live by Night
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They Live by Night is a 1948 American film noir crime drama, directed by Nicholas Ray, about a young fugitive couple on the run.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| They Live by Night canonical | 24 |
| They Live by Night (film universe) | 1 |
| They Live by Night (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1029072 — 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 Live by Night Context triple: [Howard Da Silva, notableWork, They Live by Night]
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A.
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic 1946 American film noir crime drama, based on James M. Cain’s novel, about a drifter and a married woman who plot a murder that spirals into betrayal and tragedy.
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B.
Johnny Guitar
Johnny Guitar is a 1954 cult-classic Western film, noted for its unconventional style, strong female lead, and subversive take on genre conventions.
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C.
White Heat
White Heat is a 1949 American film noir crime drama directed by Raoul Walsh, renowned for James Cagney’s iconic performance as psychotic gangster Cody Jarrett and its explosive finale.
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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.
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde is a landmark 1967 American crime film that revolutionized Hollywood with its stylish depiction of violence, antihero protagonists, and countercultural sensibilities.
- 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 Live by Night Target entity description: They Live by Night is a 1948 American film noir crime drama, directed by Nicholas Ray, about a young fugitive couple on the run.
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A.
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic 1946 American film noir crime drama, based on James M. Cain’s novel, about a drifter and a married woman who plot a murder that spirals into betrayal and tragedy.
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B.
Johnny Guitar
Johnny Guitar is a 1954 cult-classic Western film, noted for its unconventional style, strong female lead, and subversive take on genre conventions.
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C.
White Heat
White Heat is a 1949 American film noir crime drama directed by Raoul Walsh, renowned for James Cagney’s iconic performance as psychotic gangster Cody Jarrett and its explosive finale.
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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.
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde is a landmark 1967 American crime film that revolutionized Hollywood with its stylish depiction of violence, antihero protagonists, and countercultural sensibilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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 Live by Night Description of subject: They Live by Night is a 1948 American film noir crime drama, directed by Nicholas Ray, about a young fugitive couple on the run.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: They Live by Night
linked to: They Live by Night