On the Waterfront
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On the Waterfront is a landmark 1954 American crime drama film starring Marlon Brando, renowned for its powerful performances and exploration of corruption and moral courage on the New Jersey docks.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| On the Waterfront canonical | 33 |
| On the Waterfront (1954 film) | 1 |
| On the Waterfront character ensemble | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T537399 — 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: On the Waterfront Context triple: [Elia Kazan, notableWork, On the Waterfront]
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A.
Rebel Without a Cause
Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American drama film starring James Dean as a troubled suburban teenager, renowned for its exploration of adolescent angst and its lasting impact on youth culture in cinema.
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B.
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film about a naive Texan who moves to New York City and befriends a sickly con man, notable for being the only X-rated movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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C.
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire is a landmark American play by Tennessee Williams that explores desire, mental instability, and social decay in postwar New Orleans.
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D.
Bugsy
Bugsy was the notorious American mobster Benjamin Siegel, a key figure in the development of Las Vegas and organized crime in the early 20th century.
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E.
All About Eve
All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film about ambition and betrayal in the New York theater world, renowned for its sharp screenplay and performances by Bette Davis and Anne Baxter.
- 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: On the Waterfront Target entity description: On the Waterfront is a landmark 1954 American crime drama film starring Marlon Brando, renowned for its powerful performances and exploration of corruption and moral courage on the New Jersey docks.
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A.
Rebel Without a Cause
Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American drama film starring James Dean as a troubled suburban teenager, renowned for its exploration of adolescent angst and its lasting impact on youth culture in cinema.
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B.
Midnight Cowboy
Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film about a naive Texan who moves to New York City and befriends a sickly con man, notable for being the only X-rated movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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C.
A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire is a landmark American play by Tennessee Williams that explores desire, mental instability, and social decay in postwar New Orleans.
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D.
Bugsy
Bugsy was the notorious American mobster Benjamin Siegel, a key figure in the development of Las Vegas and organized crime in the early 20th century.
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E.
All About Eve
All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film about ambition and betrayal in the New York theater world, renowned for its sharp screenplay and performances by Bette Davis and Anne Baxter.
- 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: On the Waterfront Description of subject: On the Waterfront is a landmark 1954 American crime drama film starring Marlon Brando, renowned for its powerful performances and exploration of corruption and moral courage on the New Jersey docks.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Elia Kazan
subject surface form:
Elia Kazan
subject surface form:
Rod Steiger
subject surface form:
Rod Steiger
this entity surface form:
On the Waterfront character ensemble
subject surface form:
Terry Malloy
subject surface form:
Terry Malloy
this entity surface form:
On the Waterfront (1954 film)