The Thin Man
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The Thin Man is a 1934 American mystery-comedy film, based on Dashiell Hammett’s novel, that follows witty married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles as they investigate a disappearance in high-society New York.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Thin Man canonical | 27 |
| The Thin Man (1934 film) | 8 |
| The Thin Man (1934) | 1 |
| The Thin Man (TV series) | 1 |
| The Thin Man (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1283302 — 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 Thin Man Context triple: [Frances Goodrich, notableWork, The Thin Man]
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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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The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon is a classic 1941 film noir, directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart as private detective Sam Spade, widely regarded as a landmark of the genre.
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Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity is a landmark 1944 film noir crime drama, co-written and directed by Billy Wilder, renowned for its dark, cynical tone and influential use of voiceover and flashback in a tale of murder and insurance fraud.
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D.
The Blue Dahlia
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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Top Hat
Top Hat is a 1935 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, renowned for its elegant dance sequences, Irving Berlin songs, and status as a classic of the genre.
- 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 Thin Man Target entity description: The Thin Man is a 1934 American mystery-comedy film, based on Dashiell Hammett’s novel, that follows witty married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles as they investigate a disappearance in high-society New York.
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A.
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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B.
The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon is a classic 1941 film noir, directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart as private detective Sam Spade, widely regarded as a landmark of the genre.
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C.
Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity is a landmark 1944 film noir crime drama, co-written and directed by Billy Wilder, renowned for its dark, cynical tone and influential use of voiceover and flashback in a tale of murder and insurance fraud.
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D.
The Blue Dahlia
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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E.
Top Hat
Top Hat is a 1935 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, renowned for its elegant dance sequences, Irving Berlin songs, and status as a classic of the genre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
How these facts were elicited
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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 Thin Man Description of subject: The Thin Man is a 1934 American mystery-comedy film, based on Dashiell Hammett’s novel, that follows witty married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles as they investigate a disappearance in high-society New York.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Nick Charles is a retired private detective
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Nick Charles is a retired private detective
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Nora Charles is Nick's wealthy wife
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Nora Charles is Nick's wealthy wife
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The Glass Key (novel)
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Wong Tung Jim
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