Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman
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"Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman" is a 1943 mystery film in the Sherlock Holmes series, featuring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Gale Sondergaard as a sinister femme fatale antagonist.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman canonical | 2 |
| Sherlock Holmes in The Spider Woman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8889218 — 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: Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman Context triple: [Gale Sondergaard, performedIn, Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman]
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A.
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
"Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" is a 1943 mystery film in the long-running Sherlock Holmes series, starring Basil Rathbone as the famed detective in a World War II–era espionage story loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s "The Adventure of the Dancing Men."
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B.
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror is a 1942 mystery film in the Sherlock Holmes series, set during World War II and featuring Basil Rathbone as Holmes investigating Nazi propaganda broadcasts threatening Britain.
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C.
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a classic American radio drama series that brought Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories to life for mid-20th-century audiences, most famously starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes.
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D.
Holmes and Holmes
Holmes and Holmes is a Canadian home renovation reality TV series featuring contractor Mike Holmes working alongside his son to repair and improve houses.
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E.
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Sherlock Holmes in Washington is a 1943 mystery film in the Sherlock Holmes series, starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, involving espionage and a missing secret document in wartime Washington, D.C.
- 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: Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman Target entity description: "Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman" is a 1943 mystery film in the Sherlock Holmes series, featuring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Gale Sondergaard as a sinister femme fatale antagonist.
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A.
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
"Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" is a 1943 mystery film in the long-running Sherlock Holmes series, starring Basil Rathbone as the famed detective in a World War II–era espionage story loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s "The Adventure of the Dancing Men."
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B.
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror is a 1942 mystery film in the Sherlock Holmes series, set during World War II and featuring Basil Rathbone as Holmes investigating Nazi propaganda broadcasts threatening Britain.
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C.
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a classic American radio drama series that brought Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories to life for mid-20th-century audiences, most famously starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes.
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D.
Holmes and Holmes
Holmes and Holmes is a Canadian home renovation reality TV series featuring contractor Mike Holmes working alongside his son to repair and improve houses.
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E.
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Sherlock Holmes in Washington is a 1943 mystery film in the Sherlock Holmes series, starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, involving espionage and a missing secret document in wartime Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Sherlock Holmes film
ⓘ
film ⓘ |
| antagonistDescription | sinister femme fatale ⓘ |
| basedOn | Sherlock Holmes character by Arthur Conan Doyle ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distributor | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Dr. John Watson
ⓘ
linked to:
Dr. Watson
Sherlock Holmes ⓘ
linked to:
Holmes
|
| featuresFemmeFatale | true ⓘ |
| franchise |
Sherlock Holmes
ⓘ
linked to:
Holmes
|
| genre |
crime
ⓘ
mystery ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
deception
ⓘ
investigation ⓘ serial murders ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| portraysAntagonist | Gale Sondergaard ⓘ |
| portraysDrWatson | Nigel Bruce ⓘ |
| portraysSherlockHolmes | Basil Rathbone ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1943 ⓘ |
| series | Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes film series ⓘ |
| setIn |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| stars |
Basil Rathbone
ⓘ
Gale Sondergaard ⓘ Nigel Bruce ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | contemporary to World War II ⓘ |
| title | Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman ⓘ |
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: Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman Description of subject: "Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman" is a 1943 mystery film in the Sherlock Holmes series, featuring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Gale Sondergaard as a sinister femme fatale antagonist.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman