Straight Shooting
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Straight Shooting is a 1917 silent Western film directed by John Ford and starring Harry Carey, regarded as one of Ford’s earliest significant feature-length works.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Straight Shooting canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11639089 — 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: Straight Shooting Context triple: [Harry Carey, notableWork, Straight Shooting]
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A.
Straight
Straight is a large-scale installation by Ai Weiwei composed of rebar recovered from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, meticulously straightened and arranged to critique government corruption and commemorate the victims.
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B.
Gunning
Gunning is a small rural town in New South Wales, Australia, known for its historic buildings and pastoral surroundings.
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C.
Gunning
Gunning is a masculine given name historically borne by figures such as American lawyer and politician Gunning Bedford Sr.
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D.
Shoot Your Shot
"Shoot Your Shot" is a funk and soul track by James Brown, featured on his influential 1973 album *The Payback*.
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E.
Hot Shot
"Hot Shot" is a 2000 reggae fusion studio album by Jamaican artist Shaggy that achieved global success with hits like "It Wasn't Me" and "Angel."
- 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: Straight Shooting Target entity description: Straight Shooting is a 1917 silent Western film directed by John Ford and starring Harry Carey, regarded as one of Ford’s earliest significant feature-length works.
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A.
Straight
Straight is a large-scale installation by Ai Weiwei composed of rebar recovered from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, meticulously straightened and arranged to critique government corruption and commemorate the victims.
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B.
Gunning
Gunning is a small rural town in New South Wales, Australia, known for its historic buildings and pastoral surroundings.
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C.
Gunning
Gunning is a masculine given name historically borne by figures such as American lawyer and politician Gunning Bedford Sr.
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D.
Shoot Your Shot
"Shoot Your Shot" is a funk and soul track by James Brown, featured on his influential 1973 album *The Payback*.
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E.
Hot Shot
"Hot Shot" is a 2000 reggae fusion studio album by Jamaican artist Shaggy that achieved global success with hits like "It Wasn't Me" and "Angel."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western film
ⓘ
feature film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| castMember | Harry Carey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | John Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Universal Film Manufacturing Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresActorAsCharacter | Harry Carey as Cheyenne Harry ⓘ |
| filmEra | silent era ⓘ |
| hasCharacter | Cheyenne Harry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFilmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| hasFormat | silent ⓘ |
| hasGenre | Western ⓘ |
| hasMedium | film ⓘ |
| hasOriginalReleaseType | theatrical release ⓘ |
| hasSetting | American West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
frontier justice
ⓘ
range war ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| hasWorkingTitle | Straight Shooting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isBlackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| isEarlyWorkOf | John Ford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | John Ford filmography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPreserved | true ⓘ |
| language | Silent ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of John Ford’s earliest significant feature-length works ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Film Manufacturing Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1917 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 60 minutes ⓘ |
| starring | Harry Carey 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: Straight Shooting Description of subject: Straight Shooting is a 1917 silent Western film directed by John Ford and starring Harry Carey, regarded as one of Ford’s earliest significant feature-length works.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.