Johnny Apollo
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Johnny Apollo is a 1940 American crime drama film starring Tyrone Power and Dorothy Lamour, centered on a lawyer’s son who turns to the underworld to help his imprisoned father.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Johnny Apollo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5787634 — 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: Johnny Apollo Context triple: [Dorothy Lamour, notableWork, Johnny Apollo]
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A.
David "Lucky" Starr
David "Lucky" Starr is a courageous and resourceful space adventurer who battles interplanetary threats in Isaac Asimov’s classic science fiction series.
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B.
Robby
Robby is a common diminutive given name, typically used as a familiar or affectionate form of the name Robert.
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C.
Charlie Gordon
Charlie Gordon is the intellectually disabled man who undergoes experimental surgery to increase his intelligence in Daniel Keyes’s science fiction story "Flowers for Algernon."
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D.
Mr. Spacely
Mr. Spacely is the short-tempered, demanding boss of George Jetson and owner of Spacely Space Sprockets in the animated television series "The Jetsons."
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E.
Buster Moon
Buster Moon is the optimistic koala theater owner and main protagonist of Illumination Entertainment’s animated film "Sing," known for his relentless determination to save his failing theater through a singing competition.
- 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: Johnny Apollo Target entity description: Johnny Apollo is a 1940 American crime drama film starring Tyrone Power and Dorothy Lamour, centered on a lawyer’s son who turns to the underworld to help his imprisoned father.
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A.
David "Lucky" Starr
David "Lucky" Starr is a courageous and resourceful space adventurer who battles interplanetary threats in Isaac Asimov’s classic science fiction series.
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B.
Robby
Robby is a common diminutive given name, typically used as a familiar or affectionate form of the name Robert.
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C.
Charlie Gordon
Charlie Gordon is the intellectually disabled man who undergoes experimental surgery to increase his intelligence in Daniel Keyes’s science fiction story "Flowers for Algernon."
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D.
Mr. Spacely
Mr. Spacely is the short-tempered, demanding boss of George Jetson and owner of Spacely Space Sprockets in the animated television series "The Jetsons."
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E.
Buster Moon
Buster Moon is the optimistic koala theater owner and main protagonist of Illumination Entertainment’s animated film "Sing," known for his relentless determination to save his failing theater through a singing competition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American crime drama film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Arthur C. Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| director | Henry Hathaway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributor | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Walter Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
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surface form:
Golden Age of Hollywood
|
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| filmingStyle | black-and-white cinematography ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Lucky Dubarry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mickey Dwyer NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Cain Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Cain Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
corruption
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family loyalty ⓘ organized crime ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| leadActress | Dorothy Lamour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | David Buttolph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | feature film ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A lawyer’s son turns to the underworld to help his imprisoned father. ⓘ |
| producer | Darryl F. Zanuck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionType | studio film ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1940-03-15 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1940 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 94 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Philip Dunne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rowland Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| starring |
Charley Grapewin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dorothy Lamour NERFINISHED ⓘ Edward Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ Lionel Atwill NERFINISHED ⓘ Lloyd Nolan NERFINISHED ⓘ Tyrone Power NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | contemporary to 1940s ⓘ |
| title | Johnny Apollo 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: Johnny Apollo Description of subject: Johnny Apollo is a 1940 American crime drama film starring Tyrone Power and Dorothy Lamour, centered on a lawyer’s son who turns to the underworld to help his imprisoned father.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.