The Face Behind the Mask
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The Face Behind the Mask is a 1941 film noir–style crime drama best known for Peter Lorre’s haunting performance as a disfigured immigrant driven to desperate criminality.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Face Behind the Mask canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10089762 — 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 Face Behind the Mask Context triple: [Robert Florey, notableWork, The Face Behind the Mask]
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A.
Beneath the Mask
"Beneath the Mask" is a jazz fusion album by the Chick Corea Elektric Band that showcases the group's intricate compositions, virtuosic playing, and synth-driven contemporary sound.
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B.
Behind a Mask
"Behind a Mask" is a sensation-style novella by Louisa May Alcott, originally published under a pseudonym, that follows a cunning governess who deceives a wealthy family for personal gain.
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C.
Confessions of a Mask
Confessions of a Mask is a semi-autobiographical novel by Yukio Mishima that explores themes of hidden identity, sexuality, and alienation in postwar Japan.
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D.
Unmasking the Face
Unmasking the Face is a psychology book that explains how to recognize and interpret human emotions through facial expressions, co-authored by Paul Ekman.
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E.
Kissing the Mask
Kissing the Mask is a nonfiction book by William T. Vollmann that explores the art, history, and aesthetics of Japanese Noh theater through travel, interviews, and personal reflection.
- 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 Face Behind the Mask Target entity description: The Face Behind the Mask is a 1941 film noir–style crime drama best known for Peter Lorre’s haunting performance as a disfigured immigrant driven to desperate criminality.
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A.
Beneath the Mask
"Beneath the Mask" is a jazz fusion album by the Chick Corea Elektric Band that showcases the group's intricate compositions, virtuosic playing, and synth-driven contemporary sound.
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B.
Behind a Mask
"Behind a Mask" is a sensation-style novella by Louisa May Alcott, originally published under a pseudonym, that follows a cunning governess who deceives a wealthy family for personal gain.
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C.
Confessions of a Mask
Confessions of a Mask is a semi-autobiographical novel by Yukio Mishima that explores themes of hidden identity, sexuality, and alienation in postwar Japan.
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D.
Unmasking the Face
Unmasking the Face is a psychology book that explains how to recognize and interpret human emotions through facial expressions, co-authored by Paul Ekman.
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E.
Kissing the Mask
Kissing the Mask is a nonfiction book by William T. Vollmann that explores the art, history, and aesthetics of Japanese Noh theater through travel, interviews, and personal reflection.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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film noir–style film ⓘ |
| basedOn | radio play "The Face Behind the Mask" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedBy | Peter Lorre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Franz Planer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Robert Florey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Charles Nelson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Janos Szabo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
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film noir–style ⓘ |
| musicBy | M. W. Stoloff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | Peter Lorre’s haunting performance as a disfigured immigrant driven to criminality. ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A disfigured immigrant in New York turns to crime after being unable to find honest work. ⓘ |
| producer | Samuel Bischoff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 69 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Allen Vincent
NERFINISHED
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Paul Jarrico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| starring |
Don Beddoe
NERFINISHED
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Evelyn Keyes NERFINISHED ⓘ George E. Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ John Tyrrell NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Lorre 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 Face Behind the Mask Description of subject: The Face Behind the Mask is a 1941 film noir–style crime drama best known for Peter Lorre’s haunting performance as a disfigured immigrant driven to desperate criminality.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.