The Secret Agent (1936 film)
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The Secret Agent is a 1936 British spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on W. Somerset Maugham’s Ashenden stories and starring John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, and Madeleine Carroll.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Secret Agent (1936 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6510305 — 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)
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Target entity: The Secret Agent (1936 film) Context triple: [Charles Bennett, notableWork, The Secret Agent (1936 film)]
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) is an early British suspense thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, centered on an ordinary couple who accidentally uncover an assassination plot while on holiday.
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The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent is a 1907 political and psychological novel by Joseph Conrad that explores anarchism, terrorism, and espionage in late 19th-century London.
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C.
The Glass Key (1942 film)
The Glass Key (1942 film) is a classic 1940s American film noir crime drama, based on Dashiell Hammett’s novel, known for its intricate political intrigue and hard-boiled style.
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D.
The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps is a classic 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, renowned for its blend of suspense, humor, and the “wrong man” chase narrative that became a hallmark of his style.
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E.
Suspicion (1941 film)
Suspicion (1941 film) is a 1941 psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine, about a woman who comes to fear that her charming husband may be plotting to kill her.
- 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: The Secret Agent (1936 film) Target entity description: The Secret Agent is a 1936 British spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on W. Somerset Maugham’s Ashenden stories and starring John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, and Madeleine Carroll.
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A.
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) is an early British suspense thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, centered on an ordinary couple who accidentally uncover an assassination plot while on holiday.
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B.
The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent is a 1907 political and psychological novel by Joseph Conrad that explores anarchism, terrorism, and espionage in late 19th-century London.
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C.
The Glass Key (1942 film)
The Glass Key (1942 film) is a classic 1940s American film noir crime drama, based on Dashiell Hammett’s novel, known for its intricate political intrigue and hard-boiled style.
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D.
The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps is a classic 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, renowned for its blend of suspense, humor, and the “wrong man” chase narrative that became a hallmark of his style.
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E.
Suspicion (1941 film)
Suspicion (1941 film) is a 1941 psychological thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine, about a woman who comes to fear that her charming husband may be plotting to kill her.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Alfred Hitchcock's Secret Agent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Ashenden stories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | W. Somerset Maugham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Bernard Knowles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Alfred Hitchcock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Gaumont British Distributors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Charles Frend NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Edgar Brodie
NERFINISHED
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Elsa Carrington NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Marvin NERFINISHED ⓘ The General NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre | spy thriller ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActorRole |
John Gielgud as Edgar Brodie
NERFINISHED
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Madeleine Carroll as Elsa Carrington ⓘ |
| leadCharacterOccupation | British intelligence agent ⓘ |
| musicBy | Louis Levy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
espionage
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identity ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ |
| partOf | Alfred Hitchcock filmography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Michael Balcon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Gaumont British Picture Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 86 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Charles Bennett
NERFINISHED
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Ian Hay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | World War I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starredActor |
John Gielgud
NERFINISHED
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Madeleine Carroll NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Lorre NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportingActorRole | Peter Lorre as The General 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: The Secret Agent (1936 film) Description of subject: The Secret Agent is a 1936 British spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, loosely based on W. Somerset Maugham’s Ashenden stories and starring John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, and Madeleine Carroll.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.