Fear and Desire
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Fear and Desire is a 1953 low-budget, existential war film that marked Stanley Kubrick’s feature-length directorial debut.
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| Fear and Desire canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5399154 — 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: Fear and Desire Context triple: [Stanley Kubrick, directed, Fear and Desire]
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A.
White Heat
White Heat is a 1949 American film noir crime drama directed by Raoul Walsh, renowned for James Cagney’s iconic performance as psychotic gangster Cody Jarrett and its explosive finale.
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B.
Out of the Past
Out of the Past is a 1947 film noir classic starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer, renowned for its shadowy cinematography, fatalistic tone, and intricate flashback-driven plot.
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C.
The Wages of Fear
The Wages of Fear is a 1953 French-Italian thriller film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, renowned for its intense suspense as desperate men undertake a deadly mission to transport nitroglycerin through treacherous terrain.
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D.
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic 1946 American film noir crime drama, based on James M. Cain’s novel, about a drifter and a married woman who plot a murder that spirals into betrayal and tragedy.
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E.
Act of Violence
Act of Violence is a 1948 American film noir thriller about a World War II veteran haunted by his past, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Fred Zinnemann.
- 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fear and Desire Target entity description: Fear and Desire is a 1953 low-budget, existential war film that marked Stanley Kubrick’s feature-length directorial debut.
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A.
White Heat
White Heat is a 1949 American film noir crime drama directed by Raoul Walsh, renowned for James Cagney’s iconic performance as psychotic gangster Cody Jarrett and its explosive finale.
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B.
Out of the Past
Out of the Past is a 1947 film noir classic starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer, renowned for its shadowy cinematography, fatalistic tone, and intricate flashback-driven plot.
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C.
The Wages of Fear
The Wages of Fear is a 1953 French-Italian thriller film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, renowned for its intense suspense as desperate men undertake a deadly mission to transport nitroglycerin through treacherous terrain.
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D.
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic 1946 American film noir crime drama, based on James M. Cain’s novel, about a drifter and a married woman who plot a murder that spirals into betrayal and tragedy.
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E.
Act of Violence
Act of Violence is a 1948 American film noir thriller about a World War II veteran haunted by his past, directed by acclaimed filmmaker Fred Zinnemann.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Fear and Desire Description of subject: Fear and Desire is a 1953 low-budget, existential war film that marked Stanley Kubrick’s feature-length directorial debut.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.