The Million Pound Note
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The Million Pound Note is a 1954 British comedy film, based on a Mark Twain story, about a penniless man who is given an enormous banknote that transforms his social standing.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Million Pound Note canonical | 2 |
| The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8659269 — 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 Million Pound Note Context triple: [Stanley Holloway, notableWork, The Million Pound Note]
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A.
The Millionaire
The Millionaire is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film starring George Arliss as a retired businessman who secretly returns to work, produced by Warner Bros. and associated with filmmaker Bryan Foy.
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B.
The Model Millionaire
"The Model Millionaire" is a short story by Oscar Wilde that humorously explores themes of wealth, generosity, and appearances through the misadventures of a kind but impoverished young man.
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C.
The Hatton Garden Job
The Hatton Garden Job is a British crime film dramatizing the infamous 2015 Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary carried out by a group of aging career criminals.
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D.
The Financier
The Financier is a 1912 novel by Theodore Dreiser that chronicles the ruthless rise of a Gilded Age businessman in Philadelphia, offering a realistic and critical portrait of American capitalism.
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E.
The Winslow Boy
The Winslow Boy is a 1946 stage play by Terence Rattigan that dramatizes a real Edwardian-era legal case in which a family sacrifices everything to clear their young son’s name.
- 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 Million Pound Note Target entity description: The Million Pound Note is a 1954 British comedy film, based on a Mark Twain story, about a penniless man who is given an enormous banknote that transforms his social standing.
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A.
The Millionaire
The Millionaire is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film starring George Arliss as a retired businessman who secretly returns to work, produced by Warner Bros. and associated with filmmaker Bryan Foy.
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B.
The Model Millionaire
"The Model Millionaire" is a short story by Oscar Wilde that humorously explores themes of wealth, generosity, and appearances through the misadventures of a kind but impoverished young man.
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C.
The Hatton Garden Job
The Hatton Garden Job is a British crime film dramatizing the infamous 2015 Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary carried out by a group of aging career criminals.
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D.
The Financier
The Financier is a 1912 novel by Theodore Dreiser that chronicles the ruthless rise of a Gilded Age businessman in Philadelphia, offering a realistic and critical portrait of American capitalism.
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E.
The Winslow Boy
The Winslow Boy is a 1946 stage play by Terence Rattigan that dramatizes a real Edwardian-era legal case in which a family sacrifices everything to clear their young son’s name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | literary work by Mark Twain ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Mark Twain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Million Pound Bank Note
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
short story by Mark Twain ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Geoffrey Unsworth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| costumeDesigner | Julie Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Ronald Neame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
General Film Distributors
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rank Organisation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Clive Donner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 1950s British cinema ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
satirical film ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTitle | Man with a Million NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| leadActor | Gregory Peck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActress | Jane Griffiths NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Henry Adams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterPortrayedBy | Gregory Peck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | William Alwyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | satire of social snobbery ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A penniless American in London is given a one-million-pound banknote as part of a bet and finds that its mere possession transforms his social standing. ⓘ |
| producer | John Bryan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | J. Arthur Rank Organisation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionDesigner | John Bryan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1954-04-07 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1954 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 90 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Jill Craigie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ronald Neame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
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| starring |
A. E. Matthews
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gregory Peck NERFINISHED ⓘ Jane Griffiths NERFINISHED ⓘ Joyce Grenfell NERFINISHED ⓘ Maurice Denham NERFINISHED ⓘ Ronald Squire NERFINISHED ⓘ Wilfrid Hyde-White NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
power of money
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social class ⓘ wealth and status ⓘ |
| title | The Million Pound Note NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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this entity surface form:
The £1,000,000 Bank Note and Other New Stories