Outward Bound (1930 film)
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Outward Bound (1930 film) is an early American fantasy drama about a group of passengers on a mysterious ship who gradually realize they are dead and bound for the afterlife.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Outward Bound (1930 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10492923 — 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: Outward Bound (1930 film) Context triple: [Between Two Worlds, isRemakeOf, Outward Bound (1930 film)]
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A.
The Plainsman (1936 film)
The Plainsman (1936 film) is a 1936 American Western adventure film directed by Cecil B. DeMille that dramatizes the lives and exploits of frontier figures like Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane.
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B.
The High and the Mighty
The High and the Mighty is a 1954 American disaster drama film, directed by William A. Wellman and starring John Wayne, that helped establish the modern airplane-disaster movie genre.
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C.
The Lost Patrol (1934 film)
The Lost Patrol (1934 film) is a 1934 American war drama directed by John Ford about a stranded British Army unit in the Mesopotamian desert during World War I.
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D.
The Alaskan (1924 film)
The Alaskan (1924 film) is a silent American drama adventure movie set in the Alaskan wilderness, adapted from James Oliver Curwood’s novel and featuring Estelle Taylor in a prominent role.
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E.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936 film)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1936 American romantic drama notable as one of the earliest three-strip Technicolor feature films shot outdoors, based on John Fox Jr.'s novel about feuding Appalachian families.
- 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: Outward Bound (1930 film) Target entity description: Outward Bound (1930 film) is an early American fantasy drama about a group of passengers on a mysterious ship who gradually realize they are dead and bound for the afterlife.
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A.
The Plainsman (1936 film)
The Plainsman (1936 film) is a 1936 American Western adventure film directed by Cecil B. DeMille that dramatizes the lives and exploits of frontier figures like Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane.
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B.
The High and the Mighty
The High and the Mighty is a 1954 American disaster drama film, directed by William A. Wellman and starring John Wayne, that helped establish the modern airplane-disaster movie genre.
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C.
The Lost Patrol (1934 film)
The Lost Patrol (1934 film) is a 1934 American war drama directed by John Ford about a stranded British Army unit in the Mesopotamian desert during World War I.
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D.
The Alaskan (1924 film)
The Alaskan (1924 film) is a silent American drama adventure movie set in the Alaskan wilderness, adapted from James Oliver Curwood’s novel and featuring Estelle Taylor in a prominent role.
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E.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936 film)
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1936 American romantic drama notable as one of the earliest three-strip Technicolor feature films shot outdoors, based on John Fox Jr.'s novel about feuding Appalachian families.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Outward Bound (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Sutton Vane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Sidney Hickox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfRelease |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director |
Raymond Cannon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Milton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Warner Bros. Pictures
ⓘ
surface form:
Warner Bros.
|
| editor | Terry O. Morse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | pre-Code Hollywood ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Thompson (the Examiner) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresEnsembleCast | true ⓘ |
| followsWork | Outward Bound (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
fantasy ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationSourceType | stage play ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
afterlife
ⓘ
death ⓘ judgment ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | mysterious ship ⓘ |
| notableFor | early cinematic depiction of the afterlife on a ship carrying the dead. ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A group of passengers on a mysterious ship gradually realize they are dead and bound for the afterlife. ⓘ |
| producer | Robert Kane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1930 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 69 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
J. Grubb Alexander
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Milton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setOn | ship ⓘ |
| soundFilm | true ⓘ |
| stars |
Alec B. Francis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Beryl Mercer NERFINISHED ⓘ Douglas Fairbanks Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Helen Chandler NERFINISHED ⓘ Holmes Herbert NERFINISHED ⓘ Leslie Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ Lionel Belmore NERFINISHED ⓘ Montagu Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Myrna Loy 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: Outward Bound (1930 film) Description of subject: Outward Bound (1930 film) is an early American fantasy drama about a group of passengers on a mysterious ship who gradually realize they are dead and bound for the afterlife.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.