The Blue Dahlia
E122898
The Blue Dahlia is a 1946 film noir crime drama, written by Raymond Chandler and starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, about a war veteran entangled in a murder mystery.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Blue Dahlia canonical | 10 |
| Blue Dahlia | 1 |
| The Blue Dahlia (screenplay) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1029073 — 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 Blue Dahlia Context triple: [Howard Da Silva, notableWork, The Blue Dahlia]
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A.
The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep is a classic 1946 film noir mystery, directed by Howard Hawks and based on Raymond Chandler’s novel, renowned for its complex plot and iconic performances by Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
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B.
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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C.
A Long Fatal Love Chase
A Long Fatal Love Chase is a gothic romantic thriller novel by Louisa May Alcott, written in the 1860s but published posthumously in 1995, that follows a young woman ensnared in a dangerous, obsessive love.
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D.
Ballad of a Thin Man
"Ballad of a Thin Man" is a dark, surreal Bob Dylan song known for its biting critique of clueless establishment figures and its haunting, piano-driven sound.
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E.
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.
- 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 Blue Dahlia Target entity description: The Blue Dahlia is a 1946 film noir crime drama, written by Raymond Chandler and starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, about a war veteran entangled in a murder mystery.
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A.
The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep is a classic 1946 film noir mystery, directed by Howard Hawks and based on Raymond Chandler’s novel, renowned for its complex plot and iconic performances by Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
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B.
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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C.
A Long Fatal Love Chase
A Long Fatal Love Chase is a gothic romantic thriller novel by Louisa May Alcott, written in the 1860s but published posthumously in 1995, that follows a young woman ensnared in a dangerous, obsessive love.
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D.
Ballad of a Thin Man
"Ballad of a Thin Man" is a dark, surreal Bob Dylan song known for its biting critique of clueless establishment figures and its haunting, piano-driven sound.
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E.
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.
- 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: The Blue Dahlia Description of subject: The Blue Dahlia is a 1946 film noir crime drama, written by Raymond Chandler and starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, about a war veteran entangled in a murder mystery.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Blue Dahlia (screenplay)
subject surface form:
Veronica Lake
this entity surface form:
Blue Dahlia