Thieves Highway
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Thieves Highway is a 1949 film noir crime drama directed by Jules Dassin that follows the dangerous world of San Francisco produce truckers entangled in corruption and betrayal.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thieves’ Highway | 6 |
| Thieves' Highway | 2 |
| Thieves Highway canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6642981 — 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: Thieves Highway Context triple: [Jack Oakie, notableWork, Thieves Highway]
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A.
The Highway Rat
The Highway Rat is a popular children's picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler about a greedy, thieving rat whose misdeeds on the highway eventually catch up with him.
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B.
Key to the Highway
"Key to the Highway" is a classic blues standard, most famously associated with Big Bill Broonzy and later covered by numerous artists including Eric Clapton.
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C.
Like a Thief in Broad Daylight
Like a Thief in Broad Daylight is a philosophical work by Slavoj Žižek that examines contemporary capitalism, digital technology, and the political crises of the 21st century through his characteristic blend of critical theory and cultural analysis.
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D.
Hell’s Highway
Hell’s Highway is the nickname for the main Allied supply route used during Operation Market Garden in World War II, running through the Netherlands and including key crossings such as the Son bridge.
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E.
Midnight Rider
"Midnight Rider" is one of The Allman Brothers Band’s signature Southern rock songs, known for its haunting melody, reflective lyrics, and enduring influence on rock and country music.
- 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: Thieves Highway Target entity description: Thieves Highway is a 1949 film noir crime drama directed by Jules Dassin that follows the dangerous world of San Francisco produce truckers entangled in corruption and betrayal.
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A.
The Highway Rat
The Highway Rat is a popular children's picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler about a greedy, thieving rat whose misdeeds on the highway eventually catch up with him.
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B.
Key to the Highway
"Key to the Highway" is a classic blues standard, most famously associated with Big Bill Broonzy and later covered by numerous artists including Eric Clapton.
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C.
Like a Thief in Broad Daylight
Like a Thief in Broad Daylight is a philosophical work by Slavoj Žižek that examines contemporary capitalism, digital technology, and the political crises of the 21st century through his characteristic blend of critical theory and cultural analysis.
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D.
Hell’s Highway
Hell’s Highway is the nickname for the main Allied supply route used during Operation Market Garden in World War II, running through the Netherlands and including key crossings such as the Son bridge.
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E.
Midnight Rider
"Midnight Rider" is one of The Allman Brothers Band’s signature Southern rock songs, known for its haunting melody, reflective lyrics, and enduring influence on rock and country music.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
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: Thieves Highway Description of subject: Thieves Highway is a 1949 film noir crime drama directed by Jules Dassin that follows the dangerous world of San Francisco produce truckers entangled in corruption and betrayal.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Bezzerides
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