Calling Philo Vance (1940 film)
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Calling Philo Vance (1940 film) is a 1940 American mystery film featuring the suave detective Philo Vance as he investigates a complex murder case.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Calling Philo Vance | 1 |
| Calling Philo Vance (1940 film) canonical | 1 |
| Philo Vance film series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1017765 — 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: Calling Philo Vance (1940 film) Context triple: [Terry, filmAppearance, Calling Philo Vance (1940 film)]
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A.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film) is a classic black-and-white mystery movie featuring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes in one of his most iconic screen portrayals.
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B.
Witness for the Prosecution
Witness for the Prosecution is a classic 1957 courtroom drama film, based on Agatha Christie's work and renowned for its suspenseful plot twists and performances.
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C.
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) is an early British suspense thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, centered on an ordinary couple who accidentally uncover an assassination plot while on holiday.
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D.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film) is a classic mystery movie adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story, widely known for starring Basil Rathbone in one of his most iconic portrayals of the famous detective.
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E.
Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity is a landmark 1944 film noir crime drama, co-written and directed by Billy Wilder, renowned for its dark, cynical tone and influential use of voiceover and flashback in a tale of murder and insurance fraud.
- 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: Calling Philo Vance (1940 film) Target entity description: Calling Philo Vance (1940 film) is a 1940 American mystery film featuring the suave detective Philo Vance as he investigates a complex murder case.
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A.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film) is a classic black-and-white mystery movie featuring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes in one of his most iconic screen portrayals.
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B.
Witness for the Prosecution
Witness for the Prosecution is a classic 1957 courtroom drama film, based on Agatha Christie's work and renowned for its suspenseful plot twists and performances.
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C.
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) is an early British suspense thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, centered on an ordinary couple who accidentally uncover an assassination plot while on holiday.
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D.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film) is a classic mystery movie adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story, widely known for starring Basil Rathbone in one of his most iconic portrayals of the famous detective.
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E.
Double Indemnity
Double Indemnity is a landmark 1944 film noir crime drama, co-written and directed by Billy Wilder, renowned for its dark, cynical tone and influential use of voiceover and flashback in a tale of murder and insurance fraud.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American mystery film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Philo Vance character ⓘ |
| character | Philo Vance ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| features | suave detective protagonist ⓘ |
| follows | previous Philo Vance film adaptations ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
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mystery film ⓘ |
| hasSetting |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| narrativeFocus | murder investigation ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf |
Calling Philo Vance (1940 film)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Philo Vance film series
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| publicationDate | 1940 ⓘ |
| title |
Calling Philo Vance (1940 film)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Calling Philo Vance
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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: Calling Philo Vance (1940 film) Description of subject: Calling Philo Vance (1940 film) is a 1940 American mystery film featuring the suave detective Philo Vance as he investigates a complex murder case.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Terry
Calling Philo Vance (1940 film)
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title
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Calling Philo Vance (1940 film)
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Calling Philo Vance
Calling Philo Vance (1940 film)
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partOf
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Calling Philo Vance (1940 film)
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Philo Vance film series