Dead Men Tell
E796352
"Dead Men Tell" is a 1941 mystery film in the Charlie Chan series, centered on a murder linked to a pirate treasure map.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dead Men Tell canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9392679 — 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: Dead Men Tell Context triple: [Victor Sen Yung, appearedIn, Dead Men Tell]
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A.
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid is a 1982 neo-noir comedy film that parodies classic detective movies by blending new footage with clips from vintage Hollywood films.
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B.
Find Them Dead
Find Them Dead is a crime thriller novel by British author Peter James, featuring a tense courtroom drama intertwined with the dark underworld of organized crime.
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C.
Dead Men’s Shoes
"Dead Men’s Shoes" is a short story by Kate Chopin, included in her 1897 collection *A Night in Acadie*, that explores themes of identity, social expectation, and personal transformation in a Southern setting.
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D.
Dead Man
Dead Man is a 1995 black-and-white revisionist Western film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, known for its surreal, existential tone and a score by Neil Young.
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E.
Dead Man’s Grip
Dead Man’s Grip is a crime thriller novel by British author Peter James, featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigating a deadly chain of events triggered by a fatal traffic accident.
- 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: Dead Men Tell Target entity description: "Dead Men Tell" is a 1941 mystery film in the Charlie Chan series, centered on a murder linked to a pirate treasure map.
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A.
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid is a 1982 neo-noir comedy film that parodies classic detective movies by blending new footage with clips from vintage Hollywood films.
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B.
Find Them Dead
Find Them Dead is a crime thriller novel by British author Peter James, featuring a tense courtroom drama intertwined with the dark underworld of organized crime.
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C.
Dead Men’s Shoes
"Dead Men’s Shoes" is a short story by Kate Chopin, included in her 1897 collection *A Night in Acadie*, that explores themes of identity, social expectation, and personal transformation in a Southern setting.
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D.
Dead Man
Dead Man is a 1995 black-and-white revisionist Western film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, known for its surreal, existential tone and a score by Neil Young.
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E.
Dead Man’s Grip
Dead Man’s Grip is a crime thriller novel by British author Peter James, featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigating a deadly chain of events triggered by a fatal traffic accident.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| genre |
crime film
ⓘ
mystery film ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
murder investigation
ⓘ
pirate treasure ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Charlie Chan ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Charlie Chan film series ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Charlie Chan investigates a murder connected to a pirate treasure map. ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| title | Dead Men Tell ⓘ |
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: Dead Men Tell Description of subject: "Dead Men Tell" is a 1941 mystery film in the Charlie Chan series, centered on a murder linked to a pirate treasure map.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Number One Son Lee Chan in Charlie Chan films
subject linked to:
Tommy Chan in Charlie Chan film series