The Fallen Sparrow
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The Fallen Sparrow is a 1943 American film noir thriller about a traumatized Spanish Civil War veteran entangled in a Nazi espionage plot in New York City.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Fallen Sparrow canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7258190 — 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 Fallen Sparrow Context triple: [Hugo Friedhofer, workedOn, The Fallen Sparrow]
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A.
A Sparrow Falls
A Sparrow Falls is a historical adventure novel by Wilbur Smith that continues the saga of the Courtney family against the backdrop of World War I and its aftermath in South Africa.
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B.
The Sanctuary Sparrow
The Sanctuary Sparrow is a historical mystery novel by Ellis Peters featuring the medieval sleuth Brother Cadfael as he investigates a crime entangled with church sanctuary and village intrigue.
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C.
Court of Birds
Court of Birds is a picturesque, Spanish-style courtyard within the historic Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, known for its ornate architecture, tranquil ambiance, and decorative bird-themed features.
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D.
The Tree of Crows
The Tree of Crows is a Romantic-era landscape painting by Caspar David Friedrich, depicting a stark, gnarled tree silhouetted against a dramatic sky to evoke themes of melancholy and mortality.
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E.
Blood Red Bird
"Blood Red Bird" is a song by singer-songwriter Smog (Bill Callahan), featured on his 1997 indie folk/lo-fi album *Red Apple Falls*.
- 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 Fallen Sparrow Target entity description: The Fallen Sparrow is a 1943 American film noir thriller about a traumatized Spanish Civil War veteran entangled in a Nazi espionage plot in New York City.
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A.
A Sparrow Falls
A Sparrow Falls is a historical adventure novel by Wilbur Smith that continues the saga of the Courtney family against the backdrop of World War I and its aftermath in South Africa.
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B.
The Sanctuary Sparrow
The Sanctuary Sparrow is a historical mystery novel by Ellis Peters featuring the medieval sleuth Brother Cadfael as he investigates a crime entangled with church sanctuary and village intrigue.
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C.
Court of Birds
Court of Birds is a picturesque, Spanish-style courtyard within the historic Mission Inn Hotel & Spa, known for its ornate architecture, tranquil ambiance, and decorative bird-themed features.
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D.
The Tree of Crows
The Tree of Crows is a Romantic-era landscape painting by Caspar David Friedrich, depicting a stark, gnarled tree silhouetted against a dramatic sky to evoke themes of melancholy and mortality.
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E.
Blood Red Bird
"Blood Red Bird" is a song by singer-songwriter Smog (Bill Callahan), featured on his 1997 indie folk/lo-fi album *Red Apple Falls*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Fallen Sparrow (novel)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
novel by Dorothy B. Hughes ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Nicholas Musuraca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Richard Wallace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Theron Warth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmEditingStyle | classical Hollywood cinema ⓘ |
| follows | Spanish Civil War veteran ⓘ |
| genre |
film noir
ⓘ
spy film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
espionage
ⓘ
loyalty and betrayal ⓘ war trauma ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Kit McKittrick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Roy Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | American film noir canon ⓘ |
| plotKeyword |
Nazi espionage
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Spanish Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ post-traumatic stress ⓘ |
| producer | Robert Fellows NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | RKO Radio Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1943 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1943 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 94 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Warren Duff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | World War II era ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Hugh Beaumont
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Garfield NERFINISHED ⓘ Martha O’Driscoll NERFINISHED ⓘ Maureen O’Hara NERFINISHED ⓘ Patricia Morison NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Slezak 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 Fallen Sparrow Description of subject: The Fallen Sparrow is a 1943 American film noir thriller about a traumatized Spanish Civil War veteran entangled in a Nazi espionage plot in New York City.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.