Whistling in the Dark
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Whistling in the Dark is a 1941 MGM comedy-mystery film starring Red Skelton as a radio crime-show host who becomes entangled in a real-life murder plot.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Whistling in the Dark canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5140679 — 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: Whistling in the Dark Context triple: [Rags Ragland, notableWork, Whistling in the Dark]
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A.
Whistling in the Dark
Whistling in the Dark is a reflective, often humorous collection of theological meditations and essays by American writer and minister Frederick Buechner.
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B.
Footsteps in the Dark
"Footsteps in the Dark" is a smooth, soulful R&B ballad by The Isley Brothers, best known for its mellow groove and for being heavily sampled in later hip-hop music.
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C.
In the Night
"In the Night" is a dark, synth-driven R&B/pop song by The Weeknd that explores themes of trauma and survival, released as a single from his album *Beauty Behind the Madness*.
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D.
Silenced by the Night
"Silenced by the Night" is a 2012 piano-driven rock ballad by the English band Keane, released as a single from their fourth studio album "Strangeland."
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E.
The Night
The Night is a haunting Expressionist painting by Max Beckmann that depicts the brutal terror and psychological trauma of a violent home invasion.
- 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: Whistling in the Dark Target entity description: Whistling in the Dark is a 1941 MGM comedy-mystery film starring Red Skelton as a radio crime-show host who becomes entangled in a real-life murder plot.
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A.
Whistling in the Dark
Whistling in the Dark is a reflective, often humorous collection of theological meditations and essays by American writer and minister Frederick Buechner.
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B.
Footsteps in the Dark
"Footsteps in the Dark" is a smooth, soulful R&B ballad by The Isley Brothers, best known for its mellow groove and for being heavily sampled in later hip-hop music.
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C.
In the Night
"In the Night" is a dark, synth-driven R&B/pop song by The Weeknd that explores themes of trauma and survival, released as a single from his album *Beauty Behind the Madness*.
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D.
Silenced by the Night
"Silenced by the Night" is a 2012 piano-driven rock ballad by the English band Keane, released as a single from their fourth studio album "Strangeland."
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E.
The Night
The Night is a haunting Expressionist painting by Max Beckmann that depicts the brutal terror and psychological trauma of a violent home invasion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Whistling in the Dark Description of subject: Whistling in the Dark is a 1941 MGM comedy-mystery film starring Red Skelton as a radio crime-show host who becomes entangled in a real-life murder plot.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.