Born to Be Bad
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Born to Be Bad is a 1950 film noir–style drama starring Joan Fontaine as a manipulative social climber entangled in romance and deceit.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Born to Be Bad canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6711782 — 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: Born to Be Bad Context triple: [Joan Fontaine, notableWork, Born to Be Bad]
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A.
Good to Be Bad
Good to Be Bad is a 2008 hard rock studio album by British band Whitesnake, marking their return with new material after a long hiatus.
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B.
Let’s Be Bad
"Let’s Be Bad" is a high-energy musical number from the TV series Smash, performed within the fictional Marilyn Monroe musical Bombshell.
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C.
Used to Be Bad
"Used to Be Bad" is a blues-influenced rock song by Paul McCartney and Steve Miller, featured on McCartney's 1997 album "Flaming Pie."
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D.
Can't B Good
"Can't B Good" is a track by the American R&B singer Janet Jackson from her 2006 album "20 Y.O."
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E.
It's Bad for Ya
"It's Bad for Ya" is a 2008 stand-up comedy special by George Carlin, known for its sharp social commentary and being his final HBO performance before his death.
- 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: Born to Be Bad Target entity description: Born to Be Bad is a 1950 film noir–style drama starring Joan Fontaine as a manipulative social climber entangled in romance and deceit.
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A.
Good to Be Bad
Good to Be Bad is a 2008 hard rock studio album by British band Whitesnake, marking their return with new material after a long hiatus.
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B.
Let’s Be Bad
"Let’s Be Bad" is a high-energy musical number from the TV series Smash, performed within the fictional Marilyn Monroe musical Bombshell.
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C.
Used to Be Bad
"Used to Be Bad" is a blues-influenced rock song by Paul McCartney and Steve Miller, featured on McCartney's 1997 album "Flaming Pie."
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D.
Can't B Good
"Can't B Good" is a track by the American R&B singer Janet Jackson from her 2006 album "20 Y.O."
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E.
It's Bad for Ya
"It's Bad for Ya" is a 2008 stand-up comedy special by George Carlin, known for its sharp social commentary and being his final HBO performance before his death.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
film noir–style drama ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Anne Parrish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | All Kneeling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Nicholas Musuraca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Nicholas Ray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
RKO
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Roland Gross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingProcess | 35 mm ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
film noir ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
greed
ⓘ
manipulation ⓘ morality ⓘ romantic deceit ⓘ social climbing ⓘ |
| leadActor |
Joan Fontaine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Ryan NERFINISHED ⓘ Zachary Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Christabel Caine Carey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motionPictureRating | Approved ⓘ |
| musicBy | Frederick Hollander NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | feature film ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A manipulative social climber schemes her way into wealth and status through romantic entanglements and deceit. ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Joan Fontaine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Jerry Wald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | RKO Radio Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1950-07-07 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1950 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 94 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Charles Schnee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edith R. Sommer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Bessie Lyle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harold Vermilyea NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Fontaine NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Leslie NERFINISHED ⓘ Kathleen Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ Mel Ferrer NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Ryan NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia Farmer NERFINISHED ⓘ Zachary Scott 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: Born to Be Bad Description of subject: Born to Be Bad is a 1950 film noir–style drama starring Joan Fontaine as a manipulative social climber entangled in romance and deceit.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.