The Cheap Detective
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The Cheap Detective is a 1978 comedy film that parodies classic film noir and detective movies, starring Peter Falk as a bumbling private eye.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Cheap Detective canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1476636 — 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 Cheap Detective Context triple: [Lawrence Weingarten, notableWork, The Cheap Detective]
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A.
A Blueprint for Murder
A Blueprint for Murder is a 1953 American film noir thriller in which Gary Merrill stars in a tense story of suspected poisoning and inheritance-driven murder.
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B.
The Case of the Counterfeit Eye
The Case of the Counterfeit Eye is a Perry Mason detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner involving a complex murder mystery centered around a glass eye and mistaken identities.
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C.
The Case of the Velvet Claws
The Case of the Velvet Claws is a 1933 detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner that launched the long-running Perry Mason series.
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D.
Criminal Chambers
Criminal Chambers are specialized judicial bodies within the Supreme Court of Peru responsible for adjudicating serious criminal cases and interpreting criminal law at the highest level.
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E.
The Clue of the New Pin
The Clue of the New Pin is a classic British crime novel by Edgar Wallace featuring a locked-room style mystery and intricate detective plot.
- 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 Cheap Detective Target entity description: The Cheap Detective is a 1978 comedy film that parodies classic film noir and detective movies, starring Peter Falk as a bumbling private eye.
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A.
A Blueprint for Murder
A Blueprint for Murder is a 1953 American film noir thriller in which Gary Merrill stars in a tense story of suspected poisoning and inheritance-driven murder.
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B.
The Case of the Counterfeit Eye
The Case of the Counterfeit Eye is a Perry Mason detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner involving a complex murder mystery centered around a glass eye and mistaken identities.
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C.
The Case of the Velvet Claws
The Case of the Velvet Claws is a 1933 detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner that launched the long-running Perry Mason series.
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D.
Criminal Chambers
Criminal Chambers are specialized judicial bodies within the Supreme Court of Peru responsible for adjudicating serious criminal cases and interpreting criminal law at the highest level.
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E.
The Clue of the New Pin
The Clue of the New Pin is a classic British crime novel by Edgar Wallace featuring a locked-room style mystery and intricate detective plot.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: The Cheap Detective Description of subject: The Cheap Detective is a 1978 comedy film that parodies classic film noir and detective movies, starring Peter Falk as a bumbling private eye.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.