The Mouse That Roared
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The Mouse That Roared is a 1959 satirical comedy film about a tiny European duchy that declares war on the United States in hopes of losing and receiving generous aid.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Mouse That Roared canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5297737 — 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 Mouse That Roared Context triple: [Jack Arnold, notableWork, The Mouse That Roared]
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A.
The Great Mouse Detective
The Great Mouse Detective is a 1986 Disney animated mystery-adventure film that follows a Sherlock Holmes–style mouse detective solving a kidnapping case in Victorian London.
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B.
Haredevil Hare
Haredevil Hare is a 1948 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon short that introduced the character Marvin the Martian in a sci-fi adventure with Bugs Bunny.
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C.
Cat and Mouse
"Cat and Mouse" is a novella by Nobel Prize–winning German author Günter Grass that forms part of his Danzig Trilogy and explores adolescence, guilt, and the legacy of World War II in Nazi-era Germany.
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D.
Cat and Mouse
Cat and Mouse is a mystery novel by Christianna Brand, known for its intricate plotting and psychological suspense.
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E.
Look Mickey
Look Mickey is a 1961 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein that adapts a Disney comic-book scene into a bold, Ben-Day dot–style canvas often seen as a breakthrough in his signature style.
- 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 Mouse That Roared Target entity description: The Mouse That Roared is a 1959 satirical comedy film about a tiny European duchy that declares war on the United States in hopes of losing and receiving generous aid.
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A.
The Great Mouse Detective
The Great Mouse Detective is a 1986 Disney animated mystery-adventure film that follows a Sherlock Holmes–style mouse detective solving a kidnapping case in Victorian London.
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B.
Haredevil Hare
Haredevil Hare is a 1948 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon short that introduced the character Marvin the Martian in a sci-fi adventure with Bugs Bunny.
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C.
Cat and Mouse
"Cat and Mouse" is a novella by Nobel Prize–winning German author Günter Grass that forms part of his Danzig Trilogy and explores adolescence, guilt, and the legacy of World War II in Nazi-era Germany.
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D.
Cat and Mouse
Cat and Mouse is a mystery novel by Christianna Brand, known for its intricate plotting and psychological suspense.
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E.
Look Mickey
Look Mickey is a 1961 pop art painting by Roy Lichtenstein that adapts a Disney comic-book scene into a bold, Ben-Day dot–style canvas often seen as a breakthrough in his signature style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Mouse That Roared (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Leonard Wibberley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
Austin Willis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
David Kossoff NERFINISHED ⓘ Howard Marion-Crawford NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean Seberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Leo McKern NERFINISHED ⓘ MacDonald Parke NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Sellers NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim Seely NERFINISHED ⓘ William Hartnell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Dr. Alfred Kokintz
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Grand Duchess Gloriana XII NERFINISHED ⓘ Helen Kokintz NERFINISHED ⓘ Prime Minister Count Rupert Mountjoy NERFINISHED ⓘ Tully Bascombe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | John Wilcox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | black-and-white ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Jack Arnold NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| distributorRegion |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| editedBy | John Pomeroy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
political satire ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasWikipediaPage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared_(film) ⓘ |
| leadActor | Peter Sellers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Benjamin Frankel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | fiction ⓘ |
| notableFor | Peter Sellers playing multiple roles ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A tiny European duchy declares war on the United States intending to lose and receive postwar aid. ⓘ |
| producer | Walter Shenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Highroad Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1959-10-17 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1959 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 83 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Jack Arnold
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roger MacDougall NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanley Mann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInFictionalCountry | Duchy of Grand Fenwick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Mouse That Roared NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Mouse That Roared Description of subject: The Mouse That Roared is a 1959 satirical comedy film about a tiny European duchy that declares war on the United States in hopes of losing and receiving generous aid.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.