Storm Center
E1032827
Storm Center is a 1956 American drama film about censorship and anti-communist hysteria, notable for starring Bette Davis as a small-town librarian who refuses to remove a controversial book.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Storm Center canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13304590 — 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: Storm Center Context triple: [Joe Mantell, appearedIn, Storm Center]
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A.
Storm Front
Storm Front is a 1989 rock album by Billy Joel that features the hit single "We Didn't Start the Fire."
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B.
Center of the Storm
Center of the Storm is the autobiography of John T. Scopes, reflecting on his role in the famous 1925 "Scopes Monkey Trial" over the teaching of evolution in American public schools.
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C.
Storm Chasers
Storm Chasers is a reality television series that follows teams of scientists and enthusiasts as they pursue and document severe weather events, particularly tornadoes, across the United States.
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D.
Summer Storm
"Summer Storm" is a film featuring Polish actress Alicja Bachleda-Curuś in a prominent role.
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E.
STORM
STORM is a working group focused on developing standards and best practices for storage and resource management in networked and distributed computing environments.
- 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: Storm Center Target entity description: Storm Center is a 1956 American drama film about censorship and anti-communist hysteria, notable for starring Bette Davis as a small-town librarian who refuses to remove a controversial book.
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A.
Storm Front
Storm Front is a 1989 rock album by Billy Joel that features the hit single "We Didn't Start the Fire."
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B.
Center of the Storm
Center of the Storm is the autobiography of John T. Scopes, reflecting on his role in the famous 1925 "Scopes Monkey Trial" over the teaching of evolution in American public schools.
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C.
Storm Chasers
Storm Chasers is a reality television series that follows teams of scientists and enthusiasts as they pursue and document severe weather events, particularly tornadoes, across the United States.
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D.
Summer Storm
"Summer Storm" is a film featuring Polish actress Alicja Bachleda-Curuś in a prominent role.
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E.
STORM
STORM is a working group focused on developing standards and best practices for storage and resource management in networked and distributed computing environments.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American drama film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematography | Burnett Guffey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Daniel Taradash NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | William A. Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresOccupation | librarian ⓘ |
| filmColorType | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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political drama film ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Alicia Hull
NERFINISHED
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Judge Robert Ellerbe NERFINISHED ⓘ Martha Lockridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Duncan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFilmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
civil liberties
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conformity vs. individual conscience ⓘ political persecution ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
McCarthyism
NERFINISHED
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anti-communism ⓘ book banning ⓘ censorship ⓘ freedom of speech ⓘ libraries ⓘ |
| motionPictureRating | unrated (original release) ⓘ |
| musicBy | George Duning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of anti-communist hysteria
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early Hollywood criticism of McCarthy-era censorship ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays | librarian resisting censorship ⓘ |
| producer | Julian Blaustein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1956-07-06 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1956 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 85 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Daniel Taradash
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elick Moll NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | small town in California ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Cold War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Bette Davis
NERFINISHED
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Brian Keith NERFINISHED ⓘ Kevin Coughlin NERFINISHED ⓘ Kim Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Laughlin 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: Storm Center Description of subject: Storm Center is a 1956 American drama film about censorship and anti-communist hysteria, notable for starring Bette Davis as a small-town librarian who refuses to remove a controversial book.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.