The Hurricane
E549271
The Hurricane is a 1937 American disaster drama film directed by John Ford, renowned for its groundbreaking special effects depicting a devastating tropical storm in the South Pacific.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Hurricane canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5787633 — 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: The Hurricane Context triple: [Dorothy Lamour, notableWork, The Hurricane]
-
A.
The Hurricane
The Hurricane is a 1999 biographical drama film about boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter’s wrongful murder conviction and fight for justice, directed by Norman Jewison and starring Denzel Washington.
-
B.
The Hurricane Express
The Hurricane Express is a 1932 American pre-Code movie serial best known for starring a young John Wayne in a fast-paced railroad-themed mystery adventure.
-
C.
Hurricane (song)
"Hurricane" is a 1975 protest song by Bob Dylan, co-written with Jacques Levy, that narrates the story of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and criticizes the racial injustice surrounding his imprisonment.
-
D.
Hurricane Fanfare
Hurricane Fanfare is a spirited musical piece performed by bands and fans to rally support and energize crowds at Miami Hurricanes football games.
-
E.
The Eye of the Hurricane
"The Eye of the Hurricane" is a jazz composition featured on Herbie Hancock’s influential 1965 album *Maiden Voyage*.
- 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: The Hurricane Target entity description: The Hurricane is a 1937 American disaster drama film directed by John Ford, renowned for its groundbreaking special effects depicting a devastating tropical storm in the South Pacific.
-
A.
The Hurricane
The Hurricane is a 1999 biographical drama film about boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter’s wrongful murder conviction and fight for justice, directed by Norman Jewison and starring Denzel Washington.
-
B.
The Hurricane Express
The Hurricane Express is a 1932 American pre-Code movie serial best known for starring a young John Wayne in a fast-paced railroad-themed mystery adventure.
-
C.
Hurricane (song)
"Hurricane" is a 1975 protest song by Bob Dylan, co-written with Jacques Levy, that narrates the story of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and criticizes the racial injustice surrounding his imprisonment.
-
D.
Hurricane Fanfare
Hurricane Fanfare is a spirited musical piece performed by bands and fans to rally support and energize crowds at Miami Hurricanes football games.
-
E.
The Eye of the Hurricane
"The Eye of the Hurricane" is a jazz composition featured on Herbie Hancock’s influential 1965 album *Maiden Voyage*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| artDirectionBy | Richard Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Sound Recording NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Hurricane (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy |
Charles Nordhoff
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James Norman Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralEvent | destructive hurricane ⓘ |
| centralTheme | conflict between islanders and colonial authorities ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Bert Glennon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Alfred Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| costumeDesignBy | Omar Kiam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | John Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributor | United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Lloyd Nosler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingTechnique |
miniature effects for storm sequences
ⓘ
rear projection ⓘ |
| genre |
disaster
ⓘ
drama ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | fictional South Seas island ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Assistant Director
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Film Editing NERFINISHED ⓘ Academy Award for Best Original Score ⓘ Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of a devastating tropical storm
ⓘ
groundbreaking special effects ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Samuel Goldwyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Samuel Goldwyn Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1937 ⓘ |
| releaseFormat | theatrical film ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 110 minutes ⓘ |
| setIn | South Pacific NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| specialEffectsSupervisor |
Farciot Edouart
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James Basevi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
C. Aubrey Smith
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dorothy Lamour NERFINISHED ⓘ John Carradine NERFINISHED ⓘ Jon Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Astor NERFINISHED ⓘ Raymond Massey NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Mitchell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 20th century ⓘ |
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: The Hurricane Description of subject: The Hurricane is a 1937 American disaster drama film directed by John Ford, renowned for its groundbreaking special effects depicting a devastating tropical storm in the South Pacific.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.