The Lost Patrol (1934 film)
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The Lost Patrol (1934 film) is a 1934 American war drama directed by John Ford about a stranded British Army unit in the Mesopotamian desert during World War I.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Lost Patrol (1934 film) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6925151 — 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 Lost Patrol (1934 film) Context triple: [Henry Hull, notableWork, The Lost Patrol (1934 film)]
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A.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936 film)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1936 American romantic drama notable as one of the earliest three-strip Technicolor feature films shot outdoors, based on John Fox Jr.'s novel about feuding Appalachian families.
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B.
The Plainsman (1936 film)
The Plainsman (1936 film) is a 1936 American Western adventure film directed by Cecil B. DeMille that dramatizes the lives and exploits of frontier figures like Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane.
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C.
Riptide (1934)
Riptide (1934) is a pre-Code romantic drama film best known as one of producer Irving Thalberg’s polished MGM star vehicles of the early 1930s.
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D.
The Buccaneer (1938 film)
The Buccaneer (1938 film) is a historical adventure movie directed by Cecil B. DeMille that dramatizes the exploits of pirate Jean Lafitte during the War of 1812 and the Battle of New Orleans.
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E.
The Last of the Mohicans (1936 film)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936 film) is a 1936 adventure drama adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper’s novel, depicting frontier conflicts during the French and Indian War.
- 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 Lost Patrol (1934 film) Target entity description: The Lost Patrol (1934 film) is a 1934 American war drama directed by John Ford about a stranded British Army unit in the Mesopotamian desert during World War I.
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A.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936 film)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1936 American romantic drama notable as one of the earliest three-strip Technicolor feature films shot outdoors, based on John Fox Jr.'s novel about feuding Appalachian families.
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B.
The Plainsman (1936 film)
The Plainsman (1936 film) is a 1936 American Western adventure film directed by Cecil B. DeMille that dramatizes the lives and exploits of frontier figures like Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane.
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C.
Riptide (1934)
Riptide (1934) is a pre-Code romantic drama film best known as one of producer Irving Thalberg’s polished MGM star vehicles of the early 1930s.
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D.
The Buccaneer (1938 film)
The Buccaneer (1938 film) is a historical adventure movie directed by Cecil B. DeMille that dramatizes the exploits of pirate Jean Lafitte during the War of 1812 and the Battle of New Orleans.
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E.
The Last of the Mohicans (1936 film)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936 film) is a 1936 adventure drama adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper’s novel, depicting frontier conflicts during the French and Indian War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Patrol (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Philip MacDonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| castMember |
Alan Hale Sr.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Boris Karloff NERFINISHED ⓘ Brandon Hurst NERFINISHED ⓘ J. M. Kerrigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Reginald Denny NERFINISHED ⓘ Victor McLaglen NERFINISHED ⓘ Wallace Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Harold Wenstrom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | John Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | George Hively NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Pre-Code Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresTheme |
isolation
ⓘ
psychological stress of war ⓘ survival ⓘ |
| filmingStyle | location and studio shooting ⓘ |
| follows | British Army patrol ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
war ⓘ |
| hasNotableScore | yes ⓘ |
| hasOriginalScoreComposer | Max Steiner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalContext | British Empire in the Middle East NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActor | Victor McLaglen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Sergeant ⓘ |
| medium | sound film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Max Steiner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | stranded British soldiers under unseen enemy attack ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Victor McLaglen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Merian C. Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | RKO Radio Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1934 ⓘ |
| remakeOf | The Lost Patrol (1929 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 73 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Dudley Nichols NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | World War I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInRegion | Mesopotamian desert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Lost Patrol (1934 film) Description of subject: The Lost Patrol (1934 film) is a 1934 American war drama directed by John Ford about a stranded British Army unit in the Mesopotamian desert during World War I.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.