The False Faces
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The False Faces is a 1919 American silent crime drama film directed by Irving Willat, based on Louis Joseph Vance’s novel about the masked adventurer Michael Lanyard, also known as the Lone Wolf.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The False Faces canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13014168 — 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 False Faces Context triple: [Irving Willat, notableWork, The False Faces]
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A.
The Masks
"The Masks" is a classic 1964 episode of The Twilight Zone in which a dying man forces his greedy relatives to wear grotesque masks that ultimately reveal their true inner selves.
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B.
The Naked Face
The Naked Face is a psychological thriller novel by Sidney Sheldon that follows a psychoanalyst entangled in a deadly mystery after his patients are murdered.
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C.
Five Hundred Faces
Five Hundred Faces is a song featured on the album "Harrow Songs."
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D.
Two Faces
Two Faces is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1987 album "Tunnel of Love," reflecting themes of inner conflict and emotional duality.
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E.
The Face Painter
"The Face Painter" is a popular episode of the sitcom "Seinfeld" centered on David Puddy's obsessive face-painting fandom at a New Jersey Devils hockey game and its impact on his relationship with Elaine.
- 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 False Faces Target entity description: The False Faces is a 1919 American silent crime drama film directed by Irving Willat, based on Louis Joseph Vance’s novel about the masked adventurer Michael Lanyard, also known as the Lone Wolf.
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A.
The Masks
"The Masks" is a classic 1964 episode of The Twilight Zone in which a dying man forces his greedy relatives to wear grotesque masks that ultimately reveal their true inner selves.
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B.
The Naked Face
The Naked Face is a psychological thriller novel by Sidney Sheldon that follows a psychoanalyst entangled in a deadly mystery after his patients are murdered.
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C.
Five Hundred Faces
Five Hundred Faces is a song featured on the album "Harrow Songs."
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D.
Two Faces
Two Faces is a song by Bruce Springsteen from his 1987 album "Tunnel of Love," reflecting themes of inner conflict and emotional duality.
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E.
The Face Painter
"The Face Painter" is a popular episode of the sitcom "Seinfeld" centered on David Puddy's obsessive face-painting fandom at a New Jersey Devils hockey game and its impact on his relationship with Elaine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime film
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drama film ⓘ film ⓘ silent film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The False Faces (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Louis Joseph Vance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| character | Michael Lanyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterAlias | Lone Wolf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | J.O. Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| director | Irving Willat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedAs | feature film ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| featuresFictionalCharacter | Lone Wolf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama ⓘ |
| hasFilmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| hasNotableCastMember | Lon Chaney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
Atlantic Ocean
NERFINISHED
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France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
espionage
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undercover operations ⓘ war ⓘ |
| isAmericanFilm | true ⓘ |
| languageOfIntertitles | English ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Silent film (English intertitles) ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Lone Wolf films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Thomas H. Ince Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1910s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1919 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 70 ⓘ |
| setDuring | World War I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| silentWithIntertitles | true ⓘ |
| starred |
Aggie Herring
NERFINISHED
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Charles Arling NERFINISHED ⓘ Francis McDonald NERFINISHED ⓘ George Pearce NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry B. Walthall NERFINISHED ⓘ James O. Barrows NERFINISHED ⓘ John Gilbert NERFINISHED ⓘ Kate Bruce NERFINISHED ⓘ Lon Chaney NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis Morrison NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ Spottiswoode Aitken NERFINISHED ⓘ Wyndham Standing 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: The False Faces Description of subject: The False Faces is a 1919 American silent crime drama film directed by Irving Willat, based on Louis Joseph Vance’s novel about the masked adventurer Michael Lanyard, also known as the Lone Wolf.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.