Thunderbolt (1929 film)
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Thunderbolt (1929 film) is a 1929 American pre-Code crime drama directed by Josef von Sternberg, notable as an early sound film featuring George Bancroft as a condemned gangster.
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| Thunderbolt (1929 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2167039 — 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: Thunderbolt (1929 film) Context triple: [Jules Furthman, notableWork, Thunderbolt (1929 film)]
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A.
Fury (1936 film)
Fury (1936 film) is a 1936 American drama directed by Fritz Lang that explores mob violence and wrongful accusation through the story of an innocent man nearly lynched by a vengeful crowd.
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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 Damsel in Distress
"A Damsel in Distress" is a 1937 Hollywood musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire, known for its elaborate dance sequences and Gershwin songs.
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D.
Shanghai Express
Shanghai Express is a 1932 pre-Code Hollywood drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg, best known for its atmospheric cinematography and starring performances by Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong.
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E.
Tombstone
Tombstone is a 1993 Western film dramatizing the events surrounding Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in the lawless town of Tombstone, Arizona.
- 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: Thunderbolt (1929 film) Target entity description: Thunderbolt (1929 film) is a 1929 American pre-Code crime drama directed by Josef von Sternberg, notable as an early sound film featuring George Bancroft as a condemned gangster.
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A.
Fury (1936 film)
Fury (1936 film) is a 1936 American drama directed by Fritz Lang that explores mob violence and wrongful accusation through the story of an innocent man nearly lynched by a vengeful crowd.
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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 Damsel in Distress
"A Damsel in Distress" is a 1937 Hollywood musical comedy film starring Fred Astaire, known for its elaborate dance sequences and Gershwin songs.
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D.
Shanghai Express
Shanghai Express is a 1932 pre-Code Hollywood drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg, best known for its atmospheric cinematography and starring performances by Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong.
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E.
Tombstone
Tombstone is a 1993 Western film dramatizing the events surrounding Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in the lawless town of Tombstone, Arizona.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Thunderbolt (1929 film) Description of subject: Thunderbolt (1929 film) is a 1929 American pre-Code crime drama directed by Josef von Sternberg, notable as an early sound film featuring George Bancroft as a condemned gangster.
Referenced by (1)
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