Night and the City
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Night and the City is a 1992 neo-noir crime drama film, a remake of the 1950 classic, centered on a small-time lawyer’s desperate plunge into the criminal underworld of New York City.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Night and the City canonical | 8 |
| Night and the City (1950 film) | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2832600 — 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: Night and the City Context triple: [Irwin Winkler, directed, Night and the City]
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Night in the City
"Night in the City" is a folk-influenced song by Joni Mitchell, featured on her 1968 debut album *Song to a Seagull*, that captures the shimmering energy and loneliness of urban nightlife.
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B.
Last Tango in Paris
Last Tango in Paris is a controversial 1972 erotic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, noted for its explicit sexual content and psychological intensity.
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C.
Out of the Past
Out of the Past is a 1947 film noir classic starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer, renowned for its shadowy cinematography, fatalistic tone, and intricate flashback-driven plot.
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D.
The Asphalt Jungle
The Asphalt Jungle is a 1950 American film noir crime drama directed by John Huston, renowned for its gritty, realistic portrayal of a meticulously planned jewel heist and its influence on the heist genre.
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E.
The Lady from Shanghai
The Lady from Shanghai is a 1947 film noir directed by and starring Orson Welles, renowned for its complex plot, striking visual style, and famous hall-of-mirrors climax.
- 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: Night and the City Target entity description: Night and the City is a 1992 neo-noir crime drama film, a remake of the 1950 classic, centered on a small-time lawyer’s desperate plunge into the criminal underworld of New York City.
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A.
Night in the City
"Night in the City" is a folk-influenced song by Joni Mitchell, featured on her 1968 debut album *Song to a Seagull*, that captures the shimmering energy and loneliness of urban nightlife.
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B.
Last Tango in Paris
Last Tango in Paris is a controversial 1972 erotic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider, noted for its explicit sexual content and psychological intensity.
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C.
Out of the Past
Out of the Past is a 1947 film noir classic starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer, renowned for its shadowy cinematography, fatalistic tone, and intricate flashback-driven plot.
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D.
The Asphalt Jungle
The Asphalt Jungle is a 1950 American film noir crime drama directed by John Huston, renowned for its gritty, realistic portrayal of a meticulously planned jewel heist and its influence on the heist genre.
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E.
The Lady from Shanghai
The Lady from Shanghai is a 1947 film noir directed by and starring Orson Welles, renowned for its complex plot, striking visual style, and famous hall-of-mirrors climax.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime drama film
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film ⓘ neo-noir film ⓘ |
| adaptationType | loose remake of the 1950 film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Night and the City
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surface form:
Night and the City (1950 film)
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| cinematographyBy | Tak Fujimoto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | 35 mm color ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Irwin Winkler ⓘ |
| distributedBy | 20th Century Fox ⓘ |
| distributionFormat | theatrical release ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | theatrical release in the United States ⓘ |
| editedBy | Priscilla Nedd-Friendly ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
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neo-noir ⓘ |
| hasColor | color film ⓘ |
| hasRemakeRelationTo |
Night and the City
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surface form:
Night and the City (1950 film)
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| isRemakeOf |
Night and the City
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surface form:
Night and the City (1950 film)
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| leadActress | Jessica Lange ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | lawyer ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | James Newton Howard ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | small-time lawyer’s involvement in crime ⓘ |
| narrativeGenre | legal crime drama ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays | boxing underworld in New York City ⓘ |
| producer | Irwin Winkler ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Winkler Films ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1992 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 105 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Richard Price ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | contemporary to early 1990s ⓘ |
| starring |
Alan King
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Cliff Gorman ⓘ Eli Wallach ⓘ Jack Warden ⓘ Jessica Lange ⓘ Robert De Niro ⓘ |
| theme |
criminal underworld
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desperation ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ |
| title | Night and the City self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Night and the City Description of subject: Night and the City is a 1992 neo-noir crime drama film, a remake of the 1950 classic, centered on a small-time lawyer’s desperate plunge into the criminal underworld of New York City.
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Night and the City (1992 film)
this entity surface form:
Night and the City (1950 film)
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Night and the City (1992 film)
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Night and the City (1950 film)
subject surface form:
Night and the City (1992 film)
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Night and the City (1992 film)
this entity surface form:
Night and the City (1950 film)
this entity surface form:
Night and the City (1950 film)