Shadow of the Thin Man
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Shadow of the Thin Man is a 1941 comedy-mystery film in the popular "Thin Man" series, featuring William Powell and Myrna Loy as the witty detective couple Nick and Nora Charles.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shadow of the Thin Man canonical | 15 |
| Shadow of the Thin Man (1941 film) | 3 |
| Shadow of the Thin Man (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5635113 — 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: Shadow of the Thin Man Context triple: [Another Thin Man, followedBy, Shadow of the Thin Man]
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After the Thin Man
After the Thin Man is a 1936 American mystery-comedy film in the Thin Man series, known for its witty dialogue and sophisticated blend of humor and detective intrigue.
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Another Thin Man
Another Thin Man is a 1939 American mystery-comedy film in the popular Thin Man series, featuring William Powell and Myrna Loy as sleuthing couple Nick and Nora Charles.
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The Thin Man
The Thin Man is a 1934 American mystery-comedy film, based on Dashiell Hammett’s novel, that follows witty married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles as they investigate a disappearance in high-society New York.
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Ballad of a Thin Man
"Ballad of a Thin Man" is a dark, surreal Bob Dylan song known for its biting critique of clueless establishment figures and its haunting, piano-driven sound.
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E.
The Adventures of Sam Spade
The Adventures of Sam Spade is a classic American radio drama series from the 1940s that follows hard-boiled private detective Sam Spade through witty, fast-paced crime and mystery cases.
- 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: Shadow of the Thin Man Target entity description: Shadow of the Thin Man is a 1941 comedy-mystery film in the popular "Thin Man" series, featuring William Powell and Myrna Loy as the witty detective couple Nick and Nora Charles.
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A.
After the Thin Man
After the Thin Man is a 1936 American mystery-comedy film in the Thin Man series, known for its witty dialogue and sophisticated blend of humor and detective intrigue.
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B.
Another Thin Man
Another Thin Man is a 1939 American mystery-comedy film in the popular Thin Man series, featuring William Powell and Myrna Loy as sleuthing couple Nick and Nora Charles.
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C.
The Thin Man
The Thin Man is a 1934 American mystery-comedy film, based on Dashiell Hammett’s novel, that follows witty married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles as they investigate a disappearance in high-society New York.
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D.
Ballad of a Thin Man
"Ballad of a Thin Man" is a dark, surreal Bob Dylan song known for its biting critique of clueless establishment figures and its haunting, piano-driven sound.
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E.
The Adventures of Sam Spade
The Adventures of Sam Spade is a classic American radio drama series from the 1940s that follows hard-boiled private detective Sam Spade through witty, fast-paced crime and mystery cases.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Shadow of the Thin Man Description of subject: Shadow of the Thin Man is a 1941 comedy-mystery film in the popular "Thin Man" series, featuring William Powell and Myrna Loy as the witty detective couple Nick and Nora Charles.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Shadow of the Thin Man
subject linked to:
Nick Charles is a retired private detective
subject linked to:
Nora Charles is Nick's wealthy wife
linked to: Shadow of the Thin Man
linked to: Shadow of the Thin Man