The Key
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The Key is a 1958 British war drama film directed by Carol Reed, set during World War II and centered on tugboat captains risking their lives in U-boat–infested waters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Key canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10660212 — 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 Key Context triple: [Carol Reed, notableWork, The Key]
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A.
The Key
"The Key" is a song by British rock musician Ian Hunter, known for its introspective lyrics and melodic rock style.
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B.
The Keyhole
The Keyhole is a distinctive, notch-like mountain pass on Longs Peak in Colorado that serves as a famous landmark and route gateway for climbers ascending the peak.
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C.
The Man with the Key
The Man with the Key is a lesser-known work by American author Robert Paul Smith, best remembered for his nostalgic classic "Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing."
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D.
Keeper of the Seven Keys
"Keeper of the Seven Keys" is a landmark power metal epic by German band Helloween, renowned for its melodic complexity, fantasy-themed lyrics, and influential role in shaping the genre.
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E.
The Lock
The Lock is a celebrated 1824 landscape painting by English Romantic artist John Constable, depicting rural life along the River Stour with dramatic naturalistic detail.
- 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 Key Target entity description: The Key is a 1958 British war drama film directed by Carol Reed, set during World War II and centered on tugboat captains risking their lives in U-boat–infested waters.
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A.
The Key
"The Key" is a song by British rock musician Ian Hunter, known for its introspective lyrics and melodic rock style.
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B.
The Keyhole
The Keyhole is a distinctive, notch-like mountain pass on Longs Peak in Colorado that serves as a famous landmark and route gateway for climbers ascending the peak.
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C.
The Man with the Key
The Man with the Key is a lesser-known work by American author Robert Paul Smith, best remembered for his nostalgic classic "Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing."
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D.
Keeper of the Seven Keys
"Keeper of the Seven Keys" is a landmark power metal epic by German band Helloween, renowned for its melodic complexity, fantasy-themed lyrics, and influential role in shaping the genre.
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E.
The Lock
The Lock is a celebrated 1824 landscape painting by English Romantic artist John Constable, depicting rural life along the River Stour with dramatic naturalistic detail.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| awardReceived | BAFTA Award for Best British Actor nomination for Trevor Howard ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Stella (novel)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Key (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Jan de Hartog NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
Bernard Lee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kieron Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ Noel Purcell NERFINISHED ⓘ Oskar Homolka NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Oswald Morris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfSetting | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Carol Reed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| distributorRegion |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| editedBy | Bert Bates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| filmingProcess | black-and-white ⓘ |
| genre | war drama ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter |
Chris Ford
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Ross NERFINISHED ⓘ Stella NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Battle of the Atlantic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Royal Navy NERFINISHED ⓘ rescue tugs ⓘ |
| hasTagline | The woman every man wanted… the man she chose was marked for death ⓘ |
| motionPictureRating | PG ⓘ |
| musicBy | Malcolm Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | tugboat captains ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | Atlantic Ocean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme | danger in U-boat–infested waters ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | British war cinema of the 1950s ⓘ |
| producer | Carol Reed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1958 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1958-07-01 ⓘ |
| runtime | 134 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Carl Foreman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | World War II ⓘ |
| starring |
Sophia Loren
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Trevor Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ William Holden 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 Key Description of subject: The Key is a 1958 British war drama film directed by Carol Reed, set during World War II and centered on tugboat captains risking their lives in U-boat–infested waters.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.