The Spoilers (1955 film)
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The Spoilers (1955 film) is a 1955 American Western movie, adapted from Rex Beach’s novel about gold-rush corruption in Nome, Alaska, and known for its rugged action and dramatic confrontations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Spoilers (1955 film) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8874053 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Spoilers (1955 film) Context triple: [Lyle Bettger, notableWork, The Spoilers (1955 film)]
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A.
The Killers (1946 film)
The Killers (1946 film) is a classic American film noir, based on an Ernest Hemingway short story, renowned for its dark, fatalistic crime narrative and for launching Burt Lancaster’s film career.
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B.
Odds Against Tomorrow
Odds Against Tomorrow is a 1959 American film noir crime drama notable for its exploration of racial tension and its starring role by Harry Belafonte.
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C.
The Card (1952 film)
The Card is a 1952 British comedy film, based on Arnold Bennett’s novel, about an ambitious young man’s social rise in an English provincial town, starring Alec Guinness and featuring Stanley Holloway.
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D.
Pronto Monto
Pronto Monto is a 1978 folk-pop album by Canadian singer-songwriters Kate and Anna McGarrigle, known for its lush arrangements and witty, bilingual songwriting.
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E.
The Man from Hollywood
The Man from Hollywood is a comedic segment in the anthology film Four Rooms, directed by Quentin Tarantino and featuring him as a charismatic high-stakes gambler in a tense, darkly humorous bet.
- 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 Spoilers (1955 film) Target entity description: The Spoilers (1955 film) is a 1955 American Western movie, adapted from Rex Beach’s novel about gold-rush corruption in Nome, Alaska, and known for its rugged action and dramatic confrontations.
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A.
The Killers (1946 film)
The Killers (1946 film) is a classic American film noir, based on an Ernest Hemingway short story, renowned for its dark, fatalistic crime narrative and for launching Burt Lancaster’s film career.
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B.
Odds Against Tomorrow
Odds Against Tomorrow is a 1959 American film noir crime drama notable for its exploration of racial tension and its starring role by Harry Belafonte.
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C.
The Card (1952 film)
The Card is a 1952 British comedy film, based on Arnold Bennett’s novel, about an ambitious young man’s social rise in an English provincial town, starring Alec Guinness and featuring Stanley Holloway.
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D.
Pronto Monto
Pronto Monto is a 1978 folk-pop album by Canadian singer-songwriters Kate and Anna McGarrigle, known for its lush arrangements and witty, bilingual songwriting.
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E.
The Man from Hollywood
The Man from Hollywood is a comedic segment in the anthology film Four Rooms, directed by Quentin Tarantino and featuring him as a charismatic high-stakes gambler in a tense, darkly humorous bet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western film
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film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | The Spoilers (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Rex Beach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Spoilers (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Maury Gertsman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Technicolor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| depicts |
corruption
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gold rush ⓘ |
| director | Jesse Hibbs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Universal-International NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Edward Curtiss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | Western ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
dramatic confrontations
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rugged action scenes ⓘ |
| musicBy |
Henry Mancini
NERFINISHED
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Herman Stein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | film adaptations of The Spoilers ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Spoilers (1942 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Ross Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal-International NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1955 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 81 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Charles Hoffman
NERFINISHED
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Oscar Brodney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Nome, Alaska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Anne Baxter
NERFINISHED
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Barbara Britton NERFINISHED ⓘ Chubby Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ Elliott Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Florenz Ames NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Chase NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Faylen NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Harvey NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Tyler NERFINISHED ⓘ House Peters Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeff Chandler NERFINISHED ⓘ John Cliff NERFINISHED ⓘ John Damler NERFINISHED ⓘ John Dierkes NERFINISHED ⓘ John McIntire NERFINISHED ⓘ Lane Chandler NERFINISHED ⓘ Ralph Moody NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Danton NERFINISHED ⓘ Rico Alaniz NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert F. Simon NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Foulk NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert J. Wilke NERFINISHED ⓘ Rory Calhoun NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruth Donnelly NERFINISHED ⓘ Stuart Randall NERFINISHED ⓘ Wallace Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Subject: The Spoilers (1955 film) Description of subject: The Spoilers (1955 film) is a 1955 American Western movie, adapted from Rex Beach’s novel about gold-rush corruption in Nome, Alaska, and known for its rugged action and dramatic confrontations.
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