Tokyo Joe
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Tokyo Joe is a 1949 film noir crime drama starring Humphrey Bogart as an ex-serviceman entangled in postwar Tokyo’s criminal underworld.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tokyo Joe canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9726921 — 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: Tokyo Joe Context triple: [Stuart Heisler, notableWork, Tokyo Joe]
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A.
Gigolo Joe
Gigolo Joe is a charming, hyper-stylized male-prostitute android character from Steven Spielberg’s science fiction film "A.I. Artificial Intelligence."
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B.
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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C.
The Joe
The Joe is a famous indoor arena in Detroit, Michigan, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings.
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D.
Phantom Joe
Phantom Joe is the nickname of Joe Malone, a legendary early 20th-century Canadian ice hockey player renowned for his prolific goal scoring in the National Hockey League.
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E.
American Gigolo
American Gigolo is a 1980 neo-noir crime drama film about a high-priced male escort in Los Angeles, widely known for its stylish direction and for helping establish Richard Gere as a major Hollywood star.
- 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: Tokyo Joe Target entity description: Tokyo Joe is a 1949 film noir crime drama starring Humphrey Bogart as an ex-serviceman entangled in postwar Tokyo’s criminal underworld.
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A.
Gigolo Joe
Gigolo Joe is a charming, hyper-stylized male-prostitute android character from Steven Spielberg’s science fiction film "A.I. Artificial Intelligence."
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B.
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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C.
The Joe
The Joe is a famous indoor arena in Detroit, Michigan, best known as the longtime home of the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings.
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D.
Phantom Joe
Phantom Joe is the nickname of Joe Malone, a legendary early 20th-century Canadian ice hockey player renowned for his prolific goal scoring in the National Hockey League.
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E.
American Gigolo
American Gigolo is a 1980 neo-noir crime drama film about a high-priced male escort in Los Angeles, widely known for its stylish direction and for helping establish Richard Gere as a major Hollywood star.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Charles Lawton Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Stuart Heisler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| distributorRegion |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| editedBy | Viola Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| filmingStudio | Columbia Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
film noir ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
occupation-era Japan
ⓘ
organized crime ⓘ postwar crime ⓘ romantic drama ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActorForCharacter Joe Barrett | Humphrey Bogart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadCharacter | Joe Barrett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | George Antheil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Humphrey Bogart performance
ⓘ
depiction of postwar Tokyo ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Robert Lord NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1940s film ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1949 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 88 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Alfred Neumann
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry Chandlee NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Fisher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Tokyo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | post-World War II ⓘ |
| starring |
Alexander Knox
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Florence Marly NERFINISHED ⓘ Gordon Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Hideo Mori NERFINISHED ⓘ Humphrey Bogart NERFINISHED ⓘ Rhys Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Sessue Hayakawa NERFINISHED ⓘ Teru Shimada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| storyBy | Steve Fisher 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: Tokyo Joe Description of subject: Tokyo Joe is a 1949 film noir crime drama starring Humphrey Bogart as an ex-serviceman entangled in postwar Tokyo’s criminal underworld.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.