Detective Story
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Detective Story is a 1951 American crime drama film, based on Sidney Kingsley’s play, that follows a rigid New York City detective whose moral absolutism is tested over the course of a single day in a busy precinct.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Detective Story canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5189417 — 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: Detective Story Context triple: [Ralph Bellamy, notableWork, Detective Story]
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A.
The World's Greatest Detective
The World's Greatest Detective is a renowned epithet for Batman, highlighting his unparalleled investigative skills, deductive reasoning, and mastery of crime-solving in the DC Comics universe.
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B.
An Excellent Mystery
An Excellent Mystery is a historical crime novel in the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters, set in 12th-century England and centered on a cloistered mystery involving two enigmatic monks.
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C.
The Expressman and the Detective
The Expressman and the Detective is a 19th-century true-crime detective narrative by Allan Pinkerton, recounting one of his agency’s real-life investigations.
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D.
The Moonstone
The Moonstone is an 1868 detective novel by Wilkie Collins, often regarded as one of the first and most influential English-language mystery novels.
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E.
The Cheap Detective
The Cheap Detective is a 1978 comedy film that parodies classic film noir and detective movies, starring Peter Falk as a bumbling private eye.
- 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: Detective Story Target entity description: Detective Story is a 1951 American crime drama film, based on Sidney Kingsley’s play, that follows a rigid New York City detective whose moral absolutism is tested over the course of a single day in a busy precinct.
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A.
The World's Greatest Detective
The World's Greatest Detective is a renowned epithet for Batman, highlighting his unparalleled investigative skills, deductive reasoning, and mastery of crime-solving in the DC Comics universe.
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B.
An Excellent Mystery
An Excellent Mystery is a historical crime novel in the Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters, set in 12th-century England and centered on a cloistered mystery involving two enigmatic monks.
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C.
The Expressman and the Detective
The Expressman and the Detective is a 19th-century true-crime detective narrative by Allan Pinkerton, recounting one of his agency’s real-life investigations.
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D.
The Moonstone
The Moonstone is an 1868 detective novel by Wilkie Collins, often regarded as one of the first and most influential English-language mystery novels.
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E.
The Cheap Detective
The Cheap Detective is a 1978 comedy film that parodies classic film noir and detective movies, starring Peter Falk as a bumbling private eye.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Broadway play ⓘ |
| awardNomination |
Academy Award for Best Actress
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Director NERFINISHED ⓘ Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress NERFINISHED ⓘ Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Detective Story (play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Sidney Kingsley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
Eleanor Parker
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frank Faylen NERFINISHED ⓘ George Macready NERFINISHED ⓘ Gerald Mohr NERFINISHED ⓘ Gladys George NERFINISHED ⓘ Kirk Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ Lee Grant NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Strong NERFINISHED ⓘ William Bendix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Lee Garmes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Dimitri Tiomkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | William Wyler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | theatrical release in the United States ⓘ |
| editor | Robert Swink NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| filmSubject |
moral absolutism
ⓘ
police ethics ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
police procedural film ⓘ |
| leadActor | Kirk Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jim McLeod NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | police precinct ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| playPremiereLocation | Broadway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playwright | Sidney Kingsley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | William Wyler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | detective ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1951 ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1950s films ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 103 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Philip Yordan
NERFINISHED
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Robert Wyler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| timeSpanOfStory | single day ⓘ |
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: Detective Story Description of subject: Detective Story is a 1951 American crime drama film, based on Sidney Kingsley’s play, that follows a rigid New York City detective whose moral absolutism is tested over the course of a single day in a busy precinct.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.