The Maltese Falcon
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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.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T317477 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Maltese Falcon Context triple: [Peter Lorre, notableWork, The Maltese Falcon]
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Murder, Inc.
Murder, Inc. was a notorious organized crime group in the 1930s–1940s that served as the enforcement arm of the American Mafia, carrying out contract killings for various crime families.
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La Estrella Solitaria
La Estrella Solitaria is the popular nickname for the national flag of Chile, highlighting its single prominent star as a symbol of unity and independence.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1999 psychological thriller film, based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel, about a young con artist who becomes dangerously obsessed with assuming another man's identity.
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The Purloined Letter
"The Purloined Letter" is a classic detective short story by Edgar Allan Poe featuring C. Auguste Dupin as he unravels the clever concealment of a stolen document.
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Blood and Sand
Blood and Sand is a 1922 silent drama film starring Rudolph Valentino as a rising bullfighter whose fame leads to personal and moral downfall.
- 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 Maltese Falcon Target entity description: 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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A.
Murder, Inc.
Murder, Inc. was a notorious organized crime group in the 1930s–1940s that served as the enforcement arm of the American Mafia, carrying out contract killings for various crime families.
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B.
La Estrella Solitaria
La Estrella Solitaria is the popular nickname for the national flag of Chile, highlighting its single prominent star as a symbol of unity and independence.
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C.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1999 psychological thriller film, based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel, about a young con artist who becomes dangerously obsessed with assuming another man's identity.
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D.
The Purloined Letter
"The Purloined Letter" is a classic detective short story by Edgar Allan Poe featuring C. Auguste Dupin as he unravels the clever concealment of a stolen document.
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E.
Blood and Sand
Blood and Sand is a 1922 silent drama film starring Rudolph Valentino as a rising bullfighter whose fame leads to personal and moral downfall.
- 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 Maltese Falcon Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (64)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)
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The Maltese Falcon (novel)
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The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)
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The Maltese Falcon (1931 film)
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The Maltese Falcon (early 1931 version)
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The Maltese Falcon universe
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The Maltese Falcon (novel)
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The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)
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The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)
this entity surface form:
The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)
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Sydney Greenstreet
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The Maltese Falcon (1931 film)
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The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)
this entity surface form:
The Maltese Falcon (1931 film)
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The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)
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The Maltese Falcon (1941 film)
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The Maltese Falcon (producer credit disputed/associated)
subject surface form:
Sydney Greenstreet
this entity surface form:
The Maltese Falcon (1930 novel)
this entity surface form:
The Maltese Falcon (1930 novel)
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The Maltese Falcon universe