The Saint in New York
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The Saint in New York is a 1938 American crime film based on Leslie Charteris’s Simon Templar stories, following the vigilante antihero “The Saint” as he takes on New York’s underworld.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Saint in New York canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9328402 — 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 Saint in New York Context triple: [J. Roy Hunt, notableWork, The Saint in New York]
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A.
The Saint
The Saint is a British mystery spy thriller television series, based on Leslie Charteris's character Simon Templar, that originally aired in the 1960s and starred Roger Moore as a suave, Robin Hood–like adventurer.
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B.
The Saint
The Saint is a 1997 action thriller film starring Val Kilmer as a master thief and master of disguise, loosely based on the classic character created by Leslie Charteris.
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C.
The Saint
The Saint is one of the short stories in Gabriel García Márquez’s collection "Strange Pilgrims," exploring themes of faith, miracles, and human vulnerability.
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D.
Saint of Circumstance
"Saint of Circumstance" is a song by the Grateful Dead, known for its upbeat, improvisational live performances and reflective lyrics.
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E.
It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City
"It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City" is a lyrically vivid, streetwise rock song by Bruce Springsteen that showcases his early storytelling style and appears on his debut album.
- 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 Saint in New York Target entity description: The Saint in New York is a 1938 American crime film based on Leslie Charteris’s Simon Templar stories, following the vigilante antihero “The Saint” as he takes on New York’s underworld.
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A.
The Saint
The Saint is a British mystery spy thriller television series, based on Leslie Charteris's character Simon Templar, that originally aired in the 1960s and starred Roger Moore as a suave, Robin Hood–like adventurer.
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B.
The Saint
The Saint is a 1997 action thriller film starring Val Kilmer as a master thief and master of disguise, loosely based on the classic character created by Leslie Charteris.
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C.
The Saint
The Saint is one of the short stories in Gabriel García Márquez’s collection "Strange Pilgrims," exploring themes of faith, miracles, and human vulnerability.
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D.
Saint of Circumstance
"Saint of Circumstance" is a song by the Grateful Dead, known for its upbeat, improvisational live performances and reflective lyrics.
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E.
It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City
"It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City" is a lyrically vivid, streetwise rock song by Bruce Springsteen that showcases his early storytelling style and appears on his debut album.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Simon Templar stories
ⓘ
works by Leslie Charteris ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| characterAlias | The Saint NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Jack MacKenzie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Ben Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | RKO Radio Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Desmond Marquette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Inspector Henry Fernack NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | Simon Templar fighting New York underworld ⓘ |
| genre |
crime
ⓘ
drama ⓘ gangster film ⓘ mystery ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Simon Templar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | vigilante justice ⓘ |
| notableFor | first American film adaptation of The Saint ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | The Saint film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | William Sistrom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1938 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1938 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 69 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Charles Kaufman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mortimer Offner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| starring |
Jack Carson
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jonathan Hale NERFINISHED ⓘ Kay Sutton NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis Hayward NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Guilfoyle NERFINISHED ⓘ Sig Rumann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Saint in New York Description of subject: The Saint in New York is a 1938 American crime film based on Leslie Charteris’s Simon Templar stories, following the vigilante antihero “The Saint” as he takes on New York’s underworld.
Referenced by (5)
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