Northwest Passage (1940 film)
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Northwest Passage (1940 film) is a 1940 American historical adventure film starring Spencer Tracy that dramatizes a perilous expedition of Rogers' Rangers during the French and Indian War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Northwest Passage (1940 film) canonical | 2 |
| Northwest Passage (TV series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17928060 — 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)
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Target entity: Northwest Passage (1940 film) Context triple: [Talbot Jennings, notableWork, Northwest Passage (1940 film)]
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The North West Passage (book by Roald Amundsen)
The North West Passage is Roald Amundsen’s firsthand account of his pioneering 1903–1906 voyage that achieved the first successful navigation of the fabled Arctic sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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B.
Convoy (1940 film)
Convoy (1940 film) is a British World War II naval drama centered on Royal Navy escort ships protecting merchant convoys from German U-boat attacks.
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Voyage of the Winnipeg
Voyage of the Winnipeg was a 1939 refugee ship journey that transported Spanish Civil War exiles to Chile, later serving as a central historical backdrop in Isabel Allende’s novel "A Long Petal of the Sea."
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D.
Gateway to the North
Gateway to the North is a nickname for Edmonton, a major Canadian city that serves as a key transportation and economic hub for northern Alberta and the broader Canadian North.
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E.
Gateway to the North
Gateway to the North is the nickname of Cabanatuan City in Nueva Ecija, Philippines, highlighting its role as a key transit and commercial hub linking Central and Northern Luzon.
- 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: Northwest Passage (1940 film) Target entity description: Northwest Passage (1940 film) is a 1940 American historical adventure film starring Spencer Tracy that dramatizes a perilous expedition of Rogers' Rangers during the French and Indian War.
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A.
The North West Passage (book by Roald Amundsen)
The North West Passage is Roald Amundsen’s firsthand account of his pioneering 1903–1906 voyage that achieved the first successful navigation of the fabled Arctic sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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B.
Convoy (1940 film)
Convoy (1940 film) is a British World War II naval drama centered on Royal Navy escort ships protecting merchant convoys from German U-boat attacks.
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C.
Voyage of the Winnipeg
Voyage of the Winnipeg was a 1939 refugee ship journey that transported Spanish Civil War exiles to Chile, later serving as a central historical backdrop in Isabel Allende’s novel "A Long Petal of the Sea."
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D.
Gateway to the North
Gateway to the North is a nickname for Edmonton, a major Canadian city that serves as a key transportation and economic hub for northern Alberta and the broader Canadian North.
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E.
Gateway to the North
Gateway to the North is the nickname of Cabanatuan City in Nueva Ecija, Philippines, highlighting its role as a key transit and commercial hub linking Central and Northern Luzon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Northwest Passage (1940 film)