The Unholy Three (1930 film)
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The Unholy Three (1930 film) is an early sound-era crime drama and remake of Tod Browning’s 1925 silent film, notable for its story of a trio of sideshow performers who turn to a life of crime.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Unholy Three (1930 film) canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4419427 — 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)
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Target entity: The Unholy Three (1930 film) Context triple: [Lila Lee, notableWork, The Unholy Three (1930 film)]
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The Unholy Three (1925 film)
The Unholy Three (1925 film) is a silent crime drama directed by Tod Browning, starring Lon Chaney as part of a trio of sideshow performers who turn to a life of elaborate criminal schemes.
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B.
Flesh and the Devil (1926)
Flesh and the Devil (1926) is a silent romantic drama film best known for starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert and helping to cement their status as major Hollywood icons.
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C.
The Unholy Three
The Unholy Three is a 1925 silent crime thriller film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney, known for its dark carnival setting and tale of a criminal trio using a sideshow as a front for their schemes.
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D.
Seven Sinners (1940 film)
Seven Sinners (1940 film) is a 1940 romantic comedy-drama set in the South Seas, best known for starring Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne in one of their early on-screen pairings.
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E.
The Dark Angel (1935 film)
The Dark Angel (1935 film) is a romantic drama directed by Sidney A. Franklin, noted for its story of love and sacrifice set against the backdrop of World War I and for receiving multiple Academy Award nominations.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: The Unholy Three (1930 film) Target entity description: The Unholy Three (1930 film) is an early sound-era crime drama and remake of Tod Browning’s 1925 silent film, notable for its story of a trio of sideshow performers who turn to a life of crime.
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A.
The Unholy Three (1925 film)
The Unholy Three (1925 film) is a silent crime drama directed by Tod Browning, starring Lon Chaney as part of a trio of sideshow performers who turn to a life of elaborate criminal schemes.
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B.
Flesh and the Devil (1926)
Flesh and the Devil (1926) is a silent romantic drama film best known for starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert and helping to cement their status as major Hollywood icons.
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C.
The Unholy Three
The Unholy Three is a 1925 silent crime thriller film directed by Tod Browning and starring Lon Chaney, known for its dark carnival setting and tale of a criminal trio using a sideshow as a front for their schemes.
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D.
Seven Sinners (1940 film)
Seven Sinners (1940 film) is a 1940 romantic comedy-drama set in the South Seas, best known for starring Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne in one of their early on-screen pairings.
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E.
The Dark Angel (1935 film)
The Dark Angel (1935 film) is a romantic drama directed by Sidney A. Franklin, noted for its story of love and sacrifice set against the backdrop of World War I and for receiving multiple Academy Award nominations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime drama film
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film ⓘ sound film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Unholy Three (1925 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Percy Hilburn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| director | Jack Conway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributionFormat | theatrical release ⓘ |
| distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| editedBy | Blanche Sewell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | early sound era ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Echo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hector McDonald NERFINISHED ⓘ Rosie NERFINISHED ⓘ Tweedledee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresElement |
jewel robbery plot
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sideshow performers ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| filmingStudio | MGM Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
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drama film ⓘ |
| hasRemakeRelationWith | The Unholy Three (1925 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
crime
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deception ⓘ loyalty ⓘ |
| isRemakeOf | The Unholy Three (1925 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | trio of sideshow performers who turn to crime ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being an early sound-era remake of a silent film
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featuring Lon Chaney in a talking role ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | American pre-Code cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Irving Thalberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1930 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 72 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Harvey Thew
NERFINISHED
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Leon Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | circus sideshow ⓘ |
| soundtrackType | synchronized dialogue and music ⓘ |
| starring |
Elliott Nugent
NERFINISHED
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Harry Earles NERFINISHED ⓘ John Miljan NERFINISHED ⓘ Lila Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ Lon Chaney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Unholy Three NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Unholy Three (1930 film) Description of subject: The Unholy Three (1930 film) is an early sound-era crime drama and remake of Tod Browning’s 1925 silent film, notable for its story of a trio of sideshow performers who turn to a life of crime.
Referenced by (6)
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