The Big Clock
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The Big Clock is a 1948 film noir thriller about a magazine editor who becomes the prime suspect in a murder he is secretly investigating.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Big Clock canonical | 28 |
| The Big Clock (1948 film) | 3 |
| The Big Clock (novel) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2980090 — 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 Big Clock Context triple: [Ray Milland, notableWork, The Big Clock]
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A.
The Clock
The Clock is a 1945 romantic drama film starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker, directed by Vincente Minnelli, about a brief but intense wartime romance in New York City.
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B.
One O’Clock Gun
The One O’Clock Gun is a time-signalling cannon in Edinburgh that is fired daily to mark 1:00 pm, serving as a historic aid to ships and a popular tourist attraction.
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C.
Nine O'Clock Gun
The Nine O'Clock Gun is a historic naval cannon in Vancouver that is fired nightly as a time signal and popular local tradition.
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D.
Eight Bells
Eight Bells is a renowned 1886 maritime painting by American artist Winslow Homer, celebrated for its dramatic depiction of sailors taking a celestial reading at sea.
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E.
The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps is a classic 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, renowned for its blend of suspense, humor, and the “wrong man” chase narrative that became a hallmark of his style.
- 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 Big Clock Target entity description: The Big Clock is a 1948 film noir thriller about a magazine editor who becomes the prime suspect in a murder he is secretly investigating.
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A.
The Clock
The Clock is a 1945 romantic drama film starring Judy Garland and Robert Walker, directed by Vincente Minnelli, about a brief but intense wartime romance in New York City.
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B.
One O’Clock Gun
The One O’Clock Gun is a time-signalling cannon in Edinburgh that is fired daily to mark 1:00 pm, serving as a historic aid to ships and a popular tourist attraction.
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C.
Nine O'Clock Gun
The Nine O'Clock Gun is a historic naval cannon in Vancouver that is fired nightly as a time signal and popular local tradition.
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D.
Eight Bells
Eight Bells is a renowned 1886 maritime painting by American artist Winslow Homer, celebrated for its dramatic depiction of sailors taking a celestial reading at sea.
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E.
The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps is a classic 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, renowned for its blend of suspense, humor, and the “wrong man” chase narrative that became a hallmark of his style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: The Big Clock Description of subject: The Big Clock is a 1948 film noir thriller about a magazine editor who becomes the prime suspect in a murder he is secretly investigating.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Elsa Sullivan Lanchester
linked to: The Big Clock
linked to: The Big Clock
linked to: The Big Clock
subject linked to:
John Seitz
subject linked to:
John Seitz
linked to: The Big Clock
linked to: The Big Clock