The Crooked Trail (1936 film)
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The Crooked Trail (1936 film) is a 1936 American Western movie starring cowboy actor Johnny Mack Brown in a tale of frontier adventure and justice.
All labels observed (1)
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| The Crooked Trail (1936 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10782572 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: The Crooked Trail (1936 film) Context triple: [Johnny Mack Brown, notableWork, The Crooked Trail (1936 film)]
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A.
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.
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B.
The Outlaw (1943 film)
The Outlaw (1943 film) is a controversial 1943 Western directed and produced by Howard Hughes, best known for its provocative portrayal of Billy the Kid and its then-scandalous emphasis on star Jane Russell.
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C.
The Trail of '98 (1928 film)
The Trail of '98 is a 1928 silent adventure film dramatizing the hardships and dangers faced by fortune seekers during the Klondike Gold Rush.
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D.
There Was a Crooked Man...
"There Was a Crooked Man..." is a 1970 Western black comedy film co-written by David Newman that subverts traditional genre tropes through its darkly humorous take on crime and morality in the Old West.
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E.
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.
- 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 Crooked Trail (1936 film) Target entity description: The Crooked Trail (1936 film) is a 1936 American Western movie starring cowboy actor Johnny Mack Brown in a tale of frontier adventure and justice.
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A.
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.
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B.
The Outlaw (1943 film)
The Outlaw (1943 film) is a controversial 1943 Western directed and produced by Howard Hughes, best known for its provocative portrayal of Billy the Kid and its then-scandalous emphasis on star Jane Russell.
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C.
The Trail of '98 (1928 film)
The Trail of '98 is a 1928 silent adventure film dramatizing the hardships and dangers faced by fortune seekers during the Klondike Gold Rush.
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D.
There Was a Crooked Man...
"There Was a Crooked Man..." is a 1970 Western black comedy film co-written by David Newman that subverts traditional genre tropes through its darkly humorous take on crime and morality in the Old West.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Western film
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film ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| genre |
Western
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action ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Al Taylor
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Art Miles ⓘ Bill Fleming ⓘ Bill Nestell ⓘ Bill Patton ⓘ Bob Card ⓘ Bud McClure ⓘ Bud Osborne ⓘ Cactus Mack ⓘ Charles King ⓘ Chick Hannan ⓘ Curley Dresden ⓘ Earl Dwire ⓘ Ed Cassidy ⓘ Edmund Cobb ⓘ Frank Ball ⓘ Frank Ellis ⓘ George Chesebro ⓘ George Morrell ⓘ George Sowards ⓘ Hank Bell ⓘ Herman Hack ⓘ Horace Murphy ⓘ Jack C. Smith ⓘ Jack Evans ⓘ Jack Ingram ⓘ Jack Jones ⓘ Jack Kirk ⓘ Jack Montgomery ⓘ Jack Rockwell ⓘ John Merton ⓘ Johnny Mack Brown ⓘ Lafe McKee ⓘ Lew Meehan ⓘ Lucile Browne ⓘ Ray Jones ⓘ Roy Bucko ⓘ Slim Whitaker ⓘ Tex Palmer ⓘ Tom London ⓘ Victor Adamson ⓘ Wally West ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| title | The Crooked Trail ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Crooked Trail (1936 film) Description of subject: The Crooked Trail (1936 film) is a 1936 American Western movie starring cowboy actor Johnny Mack Brown in a tale of frontier adventure and justice.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.