The Kidnappers
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The Kidnappers is a 1953 British family drama film set in early 20th-century Nova Scotia, following two young brothers who "adopt" a missing baby they find while searching for a dog.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Kidnappers canonical | 2 |
| The Little Kidnappers | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5141381 — 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 Kidnappers Context triple: [Vincent Winter, notableWork, The Kidnappers]
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A.
The Jailer
The Jailer is the central villain of World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands expansion, an ancient ruler of the Maw who seeks to unmake the cosmos and reshape reality to his will.
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B.
The Criminals
The Criminals is a punk rock band known for featuring guitarist Jason White, who later gained prominence with Green Day.
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C.
The Child Killer
The Child Killer is the nickname of Scottish serial murderer Robert Black, notorious for abducting, sexually assaulting, and killing young girls across the UK during the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
The Captive
"The Captive" is a lesser-known Gothic work by English novelist and dramatist Matthew Gregory Lewis, best remembered for his sensational horror style exemplified in "The Monk."
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E.
The Captive
The Captive is a controversial 1926 Broadway play, adapted from Édouard Bourdet’s French drama, that became historically significant for its early depiction of lesbian themes and the resulting censorship battles.
- 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 Kidnappers Target entity description: The Kidnappers is a 1953 British family drama film set in early 20th-century Nova Scotia, following two young brothers who "adopt" a missing baby they find while searching for a dog.
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A.
The Jailer
The Jailer is the central villain of World of Warcraft’s Shadowlands expansion, an ancient ruler of the Maw who seeks to unmake the cosmos and reshape reality to his will.
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B.
The Criminals
The Criminals is a punk rock band known for featuring guitarist Jason White, who later gained prominence with Green Day.
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C.
The Child Killer
The Child Killer is the nickname of Scottish serial murderer Robert Black, notorious for abducting, sexually assaulting, and killing young girls across the UK during the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
The Captive
"The Captive" is a lesser-known Gothic work by English novelist and dramatist Matthew Gregory Lewis, best remembered for his sensational horror style exemplified in "The Monk."
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E.
The Captive
The Captive is a controversial 1926 Broadway play, adapted from Édouard Bourdet’s French drama, that became historically significant for its early depiction of lesbian themes and the resulting censorship battles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | The Little Kidnappers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReason | outstanding juvenile performance ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Honorary Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedBy |
Jon Whiteley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vincent Winter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | short story by Neil Paterson ⓘ |
| certificate | U (United Kingdom) ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Geoffrey Unsworth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfSetting | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Philip Leacock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
General Film Distributors
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rank Organisation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editingBy | Frederick Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | two young brothers ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
family film ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
land disputes
ⓘ
orphans ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
family
ⓘ
forgiveness ⓘ prejudice ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Davy MacKenzie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry MacKenzie NERFINISHED ⓘ James MacKenzie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Malcolm Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeTimePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Two young brothers in Nova Scotia find a missing baby while searching for a dog and decide to keep him as their own. ⓘ |
| producer | Ralph Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Group 3 Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1953-11-23 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1953 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 93 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Neil Paterson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | rural community ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Nova Scotia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Adrienne Corri
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Duncan Macrae NERFINISHED ⓘ Francis De Wolff NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ Jon Whiteley NERFINISHED ⓘ Vincent Winter 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: The Kidnappers Description of subject: The Kidnappers is a 1953 British family drama film set in early 20th-century Nova Scotia, following two young brothers who "adopt" a missing baby they find while searching for a dog.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Little Kidnappers