The Tarnished Angels
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The Tarnished Angels is a 1957 American drama film directed by Douglas Sirk, adapted from William Faulkner’s novel "Pylon" and noted for its striking black-and-white CinemaScope cinematography and tragic story of barnstorming pilots.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Tarnished Angels canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8408646 — 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 Tarnished Angels Context triple: [Russell Metty, workedOn, The Tarnished Angels]
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A.
The Shopworn Angel
The Shopworn Angel is a 1938 romantic drama film starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan, adapted from a play by screenwriter Samson Raphaelson.
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B.
The Trouble with Angels
The Trouble with Angels is a 1966 comedy film about two mischievous girls at a Catholic boarding school, starring Hayley Mills and directed by Ida Lupino.
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C.
Three Strange Angels
Three Strange Angels is a film production company known for its involvement in producing the movie "Stranger Than Fiction."
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D.
Strange As Angels
Strange As Angels is a work by Alex Martin, likely a novel, that showcases the author's distinctive storytelling and thematic style.
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E.
Fallen Angels
Fallen Angels is a notable work by American author Jack Frost, recognized for its dark, atmospheric storytelling centered on morally complex characters.
- 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 Tarnished Angels Target entity description: The Tarnished Angels is a 1957 American drama film directed by Douglas Sirk, adapted from William Faulkner’s novel "Pylon" and noted for its striking black-and-white CinemaScope cinematography and tragic story of barnstorming pilots.
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A.
The Shopworn Angel
The Shopworn Angel is a 1938 romantic drama film starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan, adapted from a play by screenwriter Samson Raphaelson.
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B.
The Trouble with Angels
The Trouble with Angels is a 1966 comedy film about two mischievous girls at a Catholic boarding school, starring Hayley Mills and directed by Ida Lupino.
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C.
Three Strange Angels
Three Strange Angels is a film production company known for its involvement in producing the movie "Stranger Than Fiction."
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D.
Strange As Angels
Strange As Angels is a work by Alex Martin, likely a novel, that showcases the author's distinctive storytelling and thematic style.
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E.
Fallen Angels
Fallen Angels is a notable work by American author Jack Frost, recognized for its dark, atmospheric storytelling centered on morally complex characters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Tarnished Angels Description of subject: The Tarnished Angels is a 1957 American drama film directed by Douglas Sirk, adapted from William Faulkner’s novel "Pylon" and noted for its striking black-and-white CinemaScope cinematography and tragic story of barnstorming pilots.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.