The Drum (1938 film)
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The Drum (1938 film) is a 1938 British Technicolor adventure film set in colonial India, known for its depiction of imperial themes and starring actors such as Roger Livesey.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Drum (1938 film) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9148543 — 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 Drum (1938 film) Context triple: [Roger Livesey, notableWork, The Drum (1938 film)]
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A.
The Chaser (1928)
The Chaser (1928) is a silent comedy film best known for featuring Australian-born comic actor Clyde Cook in a leading role.
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B.
Bulldog Drummond (1929 film)
Bulldog Drummond (1929 film) is an early sound-era British-American adventure thriller in which Ronald Colman stars as a bored ex-soldier seeking excitement who becomes entangled in crime and romance.
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C.
Sons of the Desert
Sons of the Desert is a classic 1933 Laurel and Hardy comedy film in which the duo scheme to attend a fraternal lodge convention without their wives finding out.
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D.
Hollywood Revue of 1929
Hollywood Revue of 1929 is an early MGM musical revue film notable for its all-star cast, lavish song-and-dance numbers, and use of early sound technology during the transition from silent movies.
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E.
M (1931 film)
M (1931 film) is a landmark German thriller directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its pioneering use of sound and its chilling portrayal of a child murderer hunted by both police and criminals.
- 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 Drum (1938 film) Target entity description: The Drum (1938 film) is a 1938 British Technicolor adventure film set in colonial India, known for its depiction of imperial themes and starring actors such as Roger Livesey.
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A.
The Chaser (1928)
The Chaser (1928) is a silent comedy film best known for featuring Australian-born comic actor Clyde Cook in a leading role.
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B.
Bulldog Drummond (1929 film)
Bulldog Drummond (1929 film) is an early sound-era British-American adventure thriller in which Ronald Colman stars as a bored ex-soldier seeking excitement who becomes entangled in crime and romance.
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C.
Sons of the Desert
Sons of the Desert is a classic 1933 Laurel and Hardy comedy film in which the duo scheme to attend a fraternal lodge convention without their wives finding out.
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D.
Hollywood Revue of 1929
Hollywood Revue of 1929 is an early MGM musical revue film notable for its all-star cast, lavish song-and-dance numbers, and use of early sound technology during the transition from silent movies.
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E.
M (1931 film)
M (1931 film) is a landmark German thriller directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its pioneering use of sound and its chilling portrayal of a child murderer hunted by both police and criminals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Technicolor film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Drum (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | A. E. W. Mason NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Georges Périnal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Technicolor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| depicts |
British Empire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
imperialism ⓘ |
| director | Zoltan Korda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Charles Crichton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | pre-World War II cinema ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| filmingProcess | three-strip Technicolor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | adventure ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
colonial adventure
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imperial loyalty ⓘ military conflict ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | cinema ⓘ |
| musicBy | John Greenwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | loyalty to the British Raj ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of British imperial themes
ⓘ
use of early Technicolor in British cinema ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays | North-West Frontier Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Alexander Korda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | London Film Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1930s ⓘ |
| releaseFormat | theatrical film ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1938 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 98 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Arthur Wimperis
NERFINISHED
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Lajos Biró NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | colonial India ⓘ |
| starring |
David Tree
NERFINISHED
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Desmond Tester NERFINISHED ⓘ Francis Lister NERFINISHED ⓘ Raymond Massey NERFINISHED ⓘ Roger Livesey NERFINISHED ⓘ Sabu NERFINISHED ⓘ Valerie Hobson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Drum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Drum (1938 film) Description of subject: The Drum (1938 film) is a 1938 British Technicolor adventure film set in colonial India, known for its depiction of imperial themes and starring actors such as Roger Livesey.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.