The Finger Points
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The Finger Points is a 1931 American pre-Code crime drama film about a naive reporter who becomes entangled with gangsters and corruption in the newspaper world.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Finger Points canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10521089 — 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 Finger Points Context triple: [William Janney, notableWork, The Finger Points]
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A.
Fingers
"Fingers" is a 1978 American crime drama film about a troubled debt collector and aspiring pianist, directed by James Toback and starring Harvey Keitel.
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B.
Two Fingers
Two Fingers is a collaborative electronic music project known for its bass-heavy, genre-blending productions, primarily involving producer Amon Tobin.
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C.
The Finger
The Finger is a character or persona also known as L.O.V.E., likely associated with a creative or entertainment work where this alias is used.
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D.
Finger
Finger is a common English surname borne by various individuals, including comic book writer Bill Finger.
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E.
Fingertips
"Fingertips" is an early 1960s live-recorded hit single by Stevie Wonder that became his first number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100.
- 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 Finger Points Target entity description: The Finger Points is a 1931 American pre-Code crime drama film about a naive reporter who becomes entangled with gangsters and corruption in the newspaper world.
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A.
Fingers
"Fingers" is a 1978 American crime drama film about a troubled debt collector and aspiring pianist, directed by James Toback and starring Harvey Keitel.
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B.
Two Fingers
Two Fingers is a collaborative electronic music project known for its bass-heavy, genre-blending productions, primarily involving producer Amon Tobin.
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C.
The Finger
The Finger is a character or persona also known as L.O.V.E., likely associated with a creative or entertainment work where this alias is used.
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D.
Finger
Finger is a common English surname borne by various individuals, including comic book writer Bill Finger.
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E.
Fingertips
"Fingertips" is an early 1960s live-recorded hit single by Stevie Wonder that became his first number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | novel "The Finger Points" ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director | John Francis Dillon ⓘ |
| distributor | First National Pictures ⓘ |
| era | pre-Code Hollywood ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ |
| hasSetting | newspaper industry ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
journalistic corruption
ⓘ
moral compromise ⓘ organized crime ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A naive reporter becomes entangled with gangsters and corruption in the newspaper world. ⓘ |
| producer | Lucien Hubbard ⓘ |
| productionCompany | First National Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1931 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
John Monk Saunders
ⓘ
Robert Lord ⓘ
linked to:
Robert H. Lord
|
| starredActor |
Clark Gable
ⓘ
Fay Wray ⓘ J. Carrol Naish ⓘ Mack Swain ⓘ Mafalda Hopkirk ⓘ Oscar Apfel ⓘ Regis Toomey ⓘ Richard Barthelmess ⓘ Robert Elliott ⓘ Robert Gleckler ⓘ |
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 Finger Points Description of subject: The Finger Points is a 1931 American pre-Code crime drama film about a naive reporter who becomes entangled with gangsters and corruption in the newspaper world.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.