Trapeze
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Trapeze is a 1956 circus-themed drama film starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, and Gina Lollobrigida, centered on the intense training and personal conflicts surrounding a dangerous triple somersault trapeze act.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Trapeze canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4306190 — 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: Trapeze Context triple: [Burt Lancaster, notableWork, Trapeze]
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A.
Trapeze
Trapeze is a UK-based book imprint of the Orion Publishing Group known for publishing commercial fiction and non-fiction aimed at a broad, contemporary readership.
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B.
Akrobatik
Akrobatik is an American underground hip-hop MC from Boston known for his socially conscious lyrics and work as part of the Perceptionists.
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C.
Cartwheel
Cartwheel was a major World War II Allied military campaign in the Pacific aimed at isolating and neutralizing the Japanese stronghold of Rabaul through a series of coordinated offensives.
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D.
Man on a Tightrope
Man on a Tightrope is a 1953 Cold War-era drama film about a Czech circus troupe’s daring escape from behind the Iron Curtain.
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E.
Aerial Ballet
Aerial Ballet is a 1968 pop album by American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, noted for its sophisticated songwriting and the original version of "Everybody's Talkin'."
- 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: Trapeze Target entity description: Trapeze is a 1956 circus-themed drama film starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, and Gina Lollobrigida, centered on the intense training and personal conflicts surrounding a dangerous triple somersault trapeze act.
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A.
Trapeze
Trapeze is a UK-based book imprint of the Orion Publishing Group known for publishing commercial fiction and non-fiction aimed at a broad, contemporary readership.
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B.
Akrobatik
Akrobatik is an American underground hip-hop MC from Boston known for his socially conscious lyrics and work as part of the Perceptionists.
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C.
Cartwheel
Cartwheel was a major World War II Allied military campaign in the Pacific aimed at isolating and neutralizing the Japanese stronghold of Rabaul through a series of coordinated offensives.
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D.
Man on a Tightrope
Man on a Tightrope is a 1953 Cold War-era drama film about a Czech circus troupe’s daring escape from behind the Iron Curtain.
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E.
Aerial Ballet
Aerial Ballet is a 1968 pop album by American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, noted for its sophisticated songwriting and the original version of "Everybody's Talkin'."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
circus film
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drama film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Killing Frost
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
novel by Max Catto ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Robert Krasker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Eastmancolor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Carol Reed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | United Artists ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | North America ⓘ |
| editedBy | Bert Bates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Cirque d'Hiver
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | CinemaScope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
romantic drama ⓘ |
| leadCharacter |
Lola
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mike Ribble NERFINISHED ⓘ Tino Orsini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Malcolm Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | depiction of a triple somersault trapeze stunt ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotFocus |
personal conflicts among trapeze artists
ⓘ
training for a dangerous triple somersault trapeze act ⓘ |
| portrays |
circus life
ⓘ
trapeze artists ⓘ |
| producer |
Harold Hecht
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Hecht-Hill-Lancaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1950s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1956 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 105 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Liam O'Brien NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Paris
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
circus ⓘ |
| starBurtLancasterRole | Mike Ribble NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starGinaLollobrigidaRole | Lola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Burt Lancaster
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gina Lollobrigida NERFINISHED ⓘ Katy Jurado NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Gomez NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Curtis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starTonyCurtisRole | Tino Orsini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Trapeze 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: Trapeze Description of subject: Trapeze is a 1956 circus-themed drama film starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, and Gina Lollobrigida, centered on the intense training and personal conflicts surrounding a dangerous triple somersault trapeze act.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Moody Blues