Christopher Cross
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Christopher Cross is the meek, middle-aged cashier and amateur painter whose tragic entanglement with a femme fatale drives the plot of the 1945 film noir "Scarlet Street."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Christopher Cross canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7775647 — 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: Christopher Cross Context triple: [Scarlet Street, mainCharacter, Christopher Cross]
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A.
Christopher Cross
Christopher Cross is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for his soft rock hits of the late 1970s and early 1980s, including "Sailing" and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)."
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B.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
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C.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was a British character actor known for his intense, gritty performances in film and television from the 1960s onward.
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D.
Del James
Del James is an American writer and musician best known for his work with Guns N’ Roses, including short stories that inspired some of the band’s iconic music videos.
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E.
Gregory Martin
Gregory Martin was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and priest best known for producing the first complete English translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate, which became the Douay–Rheims Bible.
- 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: Christopher Cross Target entity description: Christopher Cross is the meek, middle-aged cashier and amateur painter whose tragic entanglement with a femme fatale drives the plot of the 1945 film noir "Scarlet Street."
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A.
Christopher Cross
Christopher Cross is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for his soft rock hits of the late 1970s and early 1980s, including "Sailing" and "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)."
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B.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was an American football official best known for serving as the referee in Super Bowl III.
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C.
Tom Bell
Tom Bell was a British character actor known for his intense, gritty performances in film and television from the 1960s onward.
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D.
Del James
Del James is an American writer and musician best known for his work with Guns N’ Roses, including short stories that inspired some of the band’s iconic music videos.
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E.
Gregory Martin
Gregory Martin was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and priest best known for producing the first complete English translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate, which became the Douay–Rheims Bible.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| ageGroup | middle-aged ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Scarlet Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInYear | 1945 ⓘ |
| artForm | painting ⓘ |
| artStyle | amateur painter ⓘ |
| basedOn | Maurice Legrand NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | La Chienne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commits | murder of Kitty March ⓘ |
| createdBy | Fritz Lang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdFor | film Scarlet Street ⓘ |
| deceivedBy |
Johnny Prince
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kitty March NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | J. J. Hogarth & Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| entangledWith | Kitty March NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| experiences |
guilt
ⓘ
hallucinations ⓘ remorse ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWork | Fritz Lang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmWriterOfWork | Dudley Nichols NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Scarlet Street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| frameForCrime | Johnny Prince NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreContext | film noir ⓘ |
| hobby | painting ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| majorThemeAssociation |
crime
ⓘ
deception ⓘ moral downfall ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| mediumOfAppearance | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableProp |
knife
ⓘ
paintings ⓘ |
| occupation | cashier ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
meek
ⓘ
submissive ⓘ timid ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Edward G. Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationshipTypeWithKittyMarch | obsessive infatuation ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Adele Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyOutcome | psychological ruin ⓘ |
| victimizedBy |
Johnny Prince
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kitty March 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: Christopher Cross Description of subject: Christopher Cross is the meek, middle-aged cashier and amateur painter whose tragic entanglement with a femme fatale drives the plot of the 1945 film noir "Scarlet Street."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.