The Ox-Bow Incident
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The Ox-Bow Incident is a 1943 American Western film noir about a lynch mob’s rush to judgment, renowned for its stark moral themes and powerful performances.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Ox-Bow Incident canonical | 28 |
| The Ox-Bow Incident (1943 film) | 3 |
| The Ox-Bow Incident (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T529171 — 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 Ox-Bow Incident Context triple: [Arthur C. Miller, notableWork, The Ox-Bow Incident]
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A.
Trial of the Twenty-One
The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
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B.
The Executioner’s Song
The Executioner’s Song is a Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction novel by Norman Mailer that chronicles the life, crimes, and execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore.
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C.
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood is Truman Capote’s pioneering nonfiction novel that reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas family and is widely credited with helping create the true crime genre.
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D.
Red Dust
Red Dust is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow, set on a rubber plantation in French Indochina.
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E.
Life in Cold Blood
Life in Cold Blood is a BBC nature documentary series presented by David Attenborough that explores the biology, behavior, and evolution of reptiles and amphibians.
- 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 Ox-Bow Incident Target entity description: The Ox-Bow Incident is a 1943 American Western film noir about a lynch mob’s rush to judgment, renowned for its stark moral themes and powerful performances.
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A.
Trial of the Twenty-One
The Trial of the Twenty-One was a 1938 Soviet show trial in Moscow in which prominent Old Bolsheviks and party leaders were accused of treason and executed, marking one of the most infamous episodes of Stalin’s Great Purge.
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B.
The Executioner’s Song
The Executioner’s Song is a Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction novel by Norman Mailer that chronicles the life, crimes, and execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore.
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C.
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood is Truman Capote’s pioneering nonfiction novel that reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas family and is widely credited with helping create the true crime genre.
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D.
Red Dust
Red Dust is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow, set on a rubber plantation in French Indochina.
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E.
Life in Cold Blood
Life in Cold Blood is a BBC nature documentary series presented by David Attenborough that explores the biology, behavior, and evolution of reptiles and amphibians.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Ox-Bow Incident Description of subject: The Ox-Bow Incident is a 1943 American Western film noir about a lynch mob’s rush to judgment, renowned for its stark moral themes and powerful performances.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Ox-Bow Incident
subject linked to:
The Ox-Bow Incident (novel)
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linked to: The Ox-Bow Incident
linked to: The Ox-Bow Incident