Phone Call from a Stranger
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Phone Call from a Stranger is a 1952 American drama film in which Gary Merrill plays a key role in a story about a plane crash survivor seeking out the families of fellow passengers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Phone Call from a Stranger canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1204441 — 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: Phone Call from a Stranger Context triple: [Gary Merrill, notableWork, Phone Call from a Stranger]
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A.
Unknown Caller
"Unknown Caller" is a song by Irish rock band U2 from their 2009 album *No Line on the Horizon*, noted for its atmospheric sound and reflective lyrics.
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B.
A Friendly Call
"A Friendly Call" is an 1895 oil painting by American Impressionist William Merritt Chase, depicting two elegantly dressed women conversing in a refined domestic interior.
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C.
I Only Came to Use the Phone
"I Only Came to Use the Phone" is a surreal short story by Gabriel García Márquez about a woman who, after a roadside mishap, is mistakenly confined to a mental institution when she only wants to make a phone call.
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D.
Call You Tonight
"Call You Tonight" is a song by Whitney Houston from her 2009 comeback album "I Look to You."
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E.
The Phone Booth
The Phone Booth is a nickname for the MCI Center, a former multi-purpose sports and entertainment arena in Washington, D.C.
- 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: Phone Call from a Stranger Target entity description: Phone Call from a Stranger is a 1952 American drama film in which Gary Merrill plays a key role in a story about a plane crash survivor seeking out the families of fellow passengers.
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A.
Unknown Caller
"Unknown Caller" is a song by Irish rock band U2 from their 2009 album *No Line on the Horizon*, noted for its atmospheric sound and reflective lyrics.
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B.
A Friendly Call
"A Friendly Call" is an 1895 oil painting by American Impressionist William Merritt Chase, depicting two elegantly dressed women conversing in a refined domestic interior.
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C.
I Only Came to Use the Phone
"I Only Came to Use the Phone" is a surreal short story by Gabriel García Márquez about a woman who, after a roadside mishap, is mistakenly confined to a mental institution when she only wants to make a phone call.
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D.
Call You Tonight
"Call You Tonight" is a song by Whitney Houston from her 2009 comeback album "I Look to You."
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E.
The Phone Booth
The Phone Booth is a nickname for the MCI Center, a former multi-purpose sports and entertainment arena in Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American drama film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | story by I. A. R. Wylie ⓘ |
| cinematography | Milton R. Krasner ⓘ |
| colorProcess | black and white ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| decadeOfRelease | 1950s ⓘ |
| director | Jean Negulesco ⓘ |
| disasterDepicted | airplane crash ⓘ |
| distributionFormat | theatrical release ⓘ |
| distributor |
20th Century Fox
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surface form:
Twentieth Century-Fox
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| editor | William H. Reynolds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | post-World War II American cinema ⓘ |
| filmingStudio |
20th Century Fox
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surface form:
20th Century Fox studios
|
| format | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Bette Davis
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Gary Merrill ⓘ Michael Rennie ⓘ Shelley Winters ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
family relationships
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grief ⓘ redemption ⓘ survivor guilt ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActorRole | Gary Merrill plays a key role in the story ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | plane crash survivor ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Franz Waxman ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | plane crash survivor seeking out families of fellow passengers ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Darryl F. Zanuck ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
20th Century Fox
ⓘ
surface form:
Twentieth Century-Fox
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| releaseDate | 1952-03-01 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1952 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 105 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Nunnally Johnson ⓘ |
| setIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| starring |
Beatrice Straight
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Bette Davis ⓘ Gary Merrill ⓘ Keefe Brasselle ⓘ Michael Rennie ⓘ Shelley Winters ⓘ |
| workType | narrative feature film ⓘ |
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: Phone Call from a Stranger Description of subject: Phone Call from a Stranger is a 1952 American drama film in which Gary Merrill plays a key role in a story about a plane crash survivor seeking out the families of fellow passengers.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.