Strange Cargo
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"Strange Cargo" is a 1940 American romantic drama film with mystical overtones, starring Clark Gable and Joan Crawford and noted for its controversial religious themes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Strange Cargo canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6576481 — 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: Strange Cargo Context triple: [Eduardo Ciannelli, notableWork, Strange Cargo]
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A.
Strange Cargo
"Strange Cargo" is a solo album by British rock musician Ian Hunter, known for his work as the frontman of Mott the Hoople.
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B.
White Cargo
White Cargo is a 1942 Hollywood drama film best known for starring Hedy Lamarr in one of her most iconic and controversial roles.
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C.
Spaceways
Spaceways is a 1953 British science fiction film about early space travel and personal intrigue, directed by Terence Fisher and associated with editor-turned-director Harmon Jones.
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D.
Rotten Sea
Rotten Sea is an alternative name for Syvash, a large system of shallow, hypersaline lagoons on the northern coast of the Crimean Peninsula.
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E.
The Seafarers
The Seafarers is a 1953 short documentary film and one of Stanley Kubrick’s early non-fiction works, focusing on the lives and organization of merchant seamen.
- 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: Strange Cargo Target entity description: "Strange Cargo" is a 1940 American romantic drama film with mystical overtones, starring Clark Gable and Joan Crawford and noted for its controversial religious themes.
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A.
Strange Cargo
"Strange Cargo" is a solo album by British rock musician Ian Hunter, known for his work as the frontman of Mott the Hoople.
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B.
White Cargo
White Cargo is a 1942 Hollywood drama film best known for starring Hedy Lamarr in one of her most iconic and controversial roles.
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C.
Spaceways
Spaceways is a 1953 British science fiction film about early space travel and personal intrigue, directed by Terence Fisher and associated with editor-turned-director Harmon Jones.
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D.
Rotten Sea
Rotten Sea is an alternative name for Syvash, a large system of shallow, hypersaline lagoons on the northern coast of the Crimean Peninsula.
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E.
The Seafarers
The Seafarers is a 1953 short documentary film and one of Stanley Kubrick’s early non-fiction works, focusing on the lives and organization of merchant seamen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | "Not Too Narrow, Not Too Deep" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Richard Sale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Robert H. Planck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Frank Borzage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| editedBy | Robert J. Kern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Cambreau
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Flaubert NERFINISHED ⓘ Hessler NERFINISHED ⓘ Julie NERFINISHED ⓘ M'sieu Pig NERFINISHED ⓘ Moll NERFINISHED ⓘ Verne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmEra | Golden Age of Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
romance film ⓘ romantic drama ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
faith
ⓘ
mysticism ⓘ redemption ⓘ religion ⓘ |
| leadActor | Clark Gable NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActress | Joan Crawford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Franz Waxman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
controversial religious themes
ⓘ
mystical overtones ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Mervyn LeRoy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| productionStudioLot | MGM Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1940-03-01 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1940 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 113 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Anita Loos
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lawrence Hazard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn |
Devil's Island
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
French Guiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Albert Dekker
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clark Gable NERFINISHED ⓘ Eduardo Ciannelli NERFINISHED ⓘ Ian Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ J. Edward Bromberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Crawford NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Lukas NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Lorre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Strange Cargo 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: Strange Cargo Description of subject: "Strange Cargo" is a 1940 American romantic drama film with mystical overtones, starring Clark Gable and Joan Crawford and noted for its controversial religious themes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.