Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964 film)
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Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964 film) is a 1964 Western drama starring Yul Brynner as a hired gunman whose arrival in a post–Civil War town exposes deep-seated tensions and moral conflicts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5402855 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964 film) Context triple: [Yul Brynner, notableWork, Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964 film)]
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A.
Rio Bravo (1959 film)
Rio Bravo is a 1959 American Western film directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne as a small-town sheriff defending his jail against a powerful rancher’s hired guns.
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B.
The Gunfighter
The Gunfighter is a 1950 American Western film starring Gregory Peck as an aging gunslinger trying to escape his violent past.
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C.
The Comancheros (1961 film)
The Comancheros (1961 film) is a 1961 Western adventure movie starring John Wayne as a Texas Ranger battling outlaws and gunrunners along the Mexican border.
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D.
Rio Lobo
Rio Lobo is a 1970 Western film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, following a Union officer’s post–Civil War quest for justice in a Texas border town.
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E.
True Grit (1969 film)
True Grit (1969 film) is a classic American Western starring John Wayne as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, adapted from Charles Portis’s novel and renowned for Wayne’s Oscar-winning performance.
- 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: Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964 film) Target entity description: Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964 film) is a 1964 Western drama starring Yul Brynner as a hired gunman whose arrival in a post–Civil War town exposes deep-seated tensions and moral conflicts.
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A.
Rio Bravo (1959 film)
Rio Bravo is a 1959 American Western film directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Wayne as a small-town sheriff defending his jail against a powerful rancher’s hired guns.
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B.
The Gunfighter
The Gunfighter is a 1950 American Western film starring Gregory Peck as an aging gunslinger trying to escape his violent past.
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C.
The Comancheros (1961 film)
The Comancheros (1961 film) is a 1961 Western adventure movie starring John Wayne as a Texas Ranger battling outlaws and gunrunners along the Mexican border.
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D.
Rio Lobo
Rio Lobo is a 1970 Western film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne, following a Union officer’s post–Civil War quest for justice in a Texas border town.
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E.
True Grit (1969 film)
True Grit (1969 film) is a classic American Western starring John Wayne as U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, adapted from Charles Portis’s novel and renowned for Wayne’s Oscar-winning performance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Joseph MacDonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Color by DeLuxe ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Richard Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
United Artists
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Artists Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | North America ⓘ |
| editedBy | Tedi L. Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingStyle | CinemaScope NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Western
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drama ⓘ |
| hasMoralConflict |
loyalty versus justice
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townspeople versus hired gun ⓘ |
| hasSetting | New Mexico town ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
moral ambiguity
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postwar social tensions ⓘ racism ⓘ revenge ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jules Gaspard d'Estaing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical film ⓘ |
| musicBy | David Raksin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | American West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A professional gunman is hired to kill a returning Confederate veteran, but his presence exposes tensions and moral conflicts in a small town. ⓘ |
| producer | Stanley Kramer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Stanley Kramer Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | October 1964 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1964 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 92 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Alvin Sargent
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elizabeth Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | post–American Civil War ⓘ |
| starring |
Clifford David
NERFINISHED
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George Segal NERFINISHED ⓘ Janice Rule NERFINISHED ⓘ Pat Hingle NERFINISHED ⓘ Yul Brynner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeInFiction | Reconstruction era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Invitation to a Gunfighter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964 film) Description of subject: Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964 film) is a 1964 Western drama starring Yul Brynner as a hired gunman whose arrival in a post–Civil War town exposes deep-seated tensions and moral conflicts.
Referenced by (1)
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