The Naked Spur
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The Naked Spur is a 1953 psychological Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, noted for its intense character-driven drama and morally complex portrayal of frontier justice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Naked Spur canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6596586 — 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 Naked Spur Context triple: [Anthony Mann, notableWork, The Naked Spur]
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A.
Ride the High Country
Ride the High Country is a 1962 American Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, celebrated for its elegiac tone and exploration of aging lawmen facing a changing frontier.
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B.
The Gunfighter
The Gunfighter is a 1950 American Western film starring Gregory Peck as an aging gunslinger trying to escape his violent past.
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C.
Rio Lobo
Rio Lobo is a 1970 Western film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, following a Union officer’s post–Civil War quest for justice in a Texas border town.
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D.
The Phantom of the Range
The Phantom of the Range is a 1930s American Western film featuring actress Joan Barclay in its cast.
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E.
The Left Handed Gun
The Left Handed Gun is a 1958 Western film dramatizing the life of Billy the Kid, noted for its psychologically complex, revisionist take on the outlaw legend.
- 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 Naked Spur Target entity description: The Naked Spur is a 1953 psychological Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, noted for its intense character-driven drama and morally complex portrayal of frontier justice.
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A.
Ride the High Country
Ride the High Country is a 1962 American Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, celebrated for its elegiac tone and exploration of aging lawmen facing a changing frontier.
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B.
The Gunfighter
The Gunfighter is a 1950 American Western film starring Gregory Peck as an aging gunslinger trying to escape his violent past.
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C.
Rio Lobo
Rio Lobo is a 1970 Western film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, following a Union officer’s post–Civil War quest for justice in a Texas border town.
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D.
The Phantom of the Range
The Phantom of the Range is a 1930s American Western film featuring actress Joan Barclay in its cast.
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E.
The Left Handed Gun
The Left Handed Gun is a 1958 Western film dramatizing the life of Billy the Kid, noted for its psychologically complex, revisionist take on the outlaw legend.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western film
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film ⓘ psychological Western film ⓘ |
| cinematographer | William C. Mellor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Technicolor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| director | Anthony Mann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| editor | Newell P. Kimlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Western film
ⓘ
psychological drama film ⓘ |
| leadCharacterOccupation | bounty hunter ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Howard Kemp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | character-driven drama ⓘ |
| notableFor |
intense character-driven drama
ⓘ
morally complex portrayal of frontier justice ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | James Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | William H. Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1953 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Harold Jack Bloom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sam Rolfe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Colorado Rockies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
James Stewart
NERFINISHED
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Janet Leigh NERFINISHED ⓘ Millard Mitchell NERFINISHED ⓘ Ralph Meeker NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Ryan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
frontier justice
ⓘ
moral ambiguity ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Naked Spur Description of subject: The Naked Spur is a 1953 psychological Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, noted for its intense character-driven drama and morally complex portrayal of frontier justice.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.