Knock on Wood
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Knock on Wood is a 1954 comedy film starring Danny Kaye as a ventriloquist entangled in international espionage and romantic misadventures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Knock on Wood canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5002781 — 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: Knock on Wood Context triple: [Danny Kaye, notableWork, Knock on Wood]
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A.
Wishing Well
Wishing Well is a popular underground pool feature in Luray Caverns where visitors toss coins while making wishes, with the collected money often donated to charity.
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B.
Knock
Knock is an Irish village in County Mayo renowned as a major Catholic pilgrimage site following reported Marian apparitions in 1879.
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C.
Come What May
"Come What May" is a romantic ballad famously associated with Baz Luhrmann’s film Moulin Rouge!, serving as one of its central love themes.
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D.
Rock the Bells
"Rock the Bells" is a classic 1985 hip-hop track by LL Cool J known for its aggressive delivery, heavy use of DJ scratching, and influential role in defining the sound of early hardcore rap.
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E.
You’ll Rock
"You'll Rock" is a hip hop single by LL Cool J from his album "Radio," showcasing his early, hard-hitting rap 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: Knock on Wood Target entity description: Knock on Wood is a 1954 comedy film starring Danny Kaye as a ventriloquist entangled in international espionage and romantic misadventures.
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A.
Wishing Well
Wishing Well is a popular underground pool feature in Luray Caverns where visitors toss coins while making wishes, with the collected money often donated to charity.
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B.
Knock
Knock is an Irish village in County Mayo renowned as a major Catholic pilgrimage site following reported Marian apparitions in 1879.
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C.
Come What May
"Come What May" is a romantic ballad famously associated with Baz Luhrmann’s film Moulin Rouge!, serving as one of its central love themes.
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D.
Rock the Bells
"Rock the Bells" is a classic 1985 hip-hop track by LL Cool J known for its aggressive delivery, heavy use of DJ scratching, and influential role in defining the sound of early hardcore rap.
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E.
You’ll Rock
"You'll Rock" is a hip hop single by LL Cool J from his album "Radio," showcasing his early, hard-hitting rap style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy film
ⓘ
film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Daniel L. Fapp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Technicolor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director |
Melvin Frank
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Norman Panama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Alma Macrorie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Jerry Morgan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingTechnique | live action ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
spy comedy film ⓘ |
| hasAudience | general audiences ⓘ |
| hasFormat | theatrical release print ⓘ |
| hasSong | Knock on Wood (title song) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVentriloquistDummy |
Clarence
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Terrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActorPlays | ventriloquist entangled in espionage ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Sylvia Fine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
international espionage
ⓘ
romantic misadventures ⓘ |
| notableFor | Danny Kaye musical-comedy performance ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotKeyword |
espionage
ⓘ
romantic comedy ⓘ ventriloquist ⓘ |
| producer | Samuel Goldwyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Samuel Goldwyn Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | ventriloquist ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1954-03-19 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1954 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 103 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Jack Rose
NERFINISHED
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Melvin Frank NERFINISHED ⓘ Norman Panama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Danny Kaye
NERFINISHED
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David Burns NERFINISHED ⓘ Gavin Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ Leon Askin NERFINISHED ⓘ Mai Zetterling NERFINISHED ⓘ Torin Thatcher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Knock on Wood Description of subject: Knock on Wood is a 1954 comedy film starring Danny Kaye as a ventriloquist entangled in international espionage and romantic misadventures.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.