The Trouble with Harry
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The Trouble with Harry is a 1955 dark comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, known for its macabre humor surrounding a mysteriously reappearing corpse in a small Vermont town.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Trouble with Harry canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5454321 — 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 Trouble with Harry Context triple: [VistaVision, usedForFilm, The Trouble with Harry]
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A.
Deconstructing Harry
Deconstructing Harry is a 1997 dark comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen that follows a troubled writer whose fictional characters begin to intersect with his chaotic real life.
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B.
Harry, He’s Here to Help
"Harry, He’s Here to Help" is a 2000 French psychological thriller film about a seemingly helpful stranger whose intrusive presence increasingly destabilizes a family's life.
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C.
Harry’s Wondrous World
"Harry’s Wondrous World" is a popular orchestral concert suite by John Williams that combines and develops key musical themes from his score to the first Harry Potter film.
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D.
Harry's House (album)
"Harry's House" is the critically acclaimed third studio album by English singer-songwriter Harry Styles, known for its eclectic pop sound and introspective, domestic-themed lyrics.
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E.
Dumbledore's Army
Dumbledore's Army is a secret student organization at Hogwarts, founded by Harry Potter to teach practical Defense Against the Dark Arts and resist Dolores Umbridge and Voldemort's forces.
- 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 Trouble with Harry Target entity description: The Trouble with Harry is a 1955 dark comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, known for its macabre humor surrounding a mysteriously reappearing corpse in a small Vermont town.
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A.
Deconstructing Harry
Deconstructing Harry is a 1997 dark comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen that follows a troubled writer whose fictional characters begin to intersect with his chaotic real life.
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B.
Harry, He’s Here to Help
"Harry, He’s Here to Help" is a 2000 French psychological thriller film about a seemingly helpful stranger whose intrusive presence increasingly destabilizes a family's life.
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C.
Harry’s Wondrous World
"Harry’s Wondrous World" is a popular orchestral concert suite by John Williams that combines and develops key musical themes from his score to the first Harry Potter film.
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D.
Harry's House (album)
"Harry's House" is the critically acclaimed third studio album by English singer-songwriter Harry Styles, known for its eclectic pop sound and introspective, domestic-themed lyrics.
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E.
Dumbledore's Army
Dumbledore's Army is a secret student organization at Hogwarts, founded by Harry Potter to teach practical Defense Against the Dark Arts and resist Dolores Umbridge and Voldemort's forces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| aspectOf | Alfred Hitchcock filmography ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Jack Trevor Story NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Trouble with Harry (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| certificate | PG ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Robert Burks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Technicolor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Alfred Hitchcock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editor | Alma Macrorie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Craftsbury, Vermont
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Morrisville, Vermont NERFINISHED ⓘ Vermont NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
ⓘ
comedy ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
death
ⓘ
guilt ⓘ secrecy ⓘ small-town life ⓘ |
| hasWikipediaPage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble_with_Harry ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainPlotElement | mysteriously reappearing corpse ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Bernard Herrmann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFact | marked Shirley MacLaine's film debut ⓘ |
| notableFor | macabre humor ⓘ |
| originalPublisher | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | 1950s American cinema ⓘ |
| posterTagline | A comedy about a corpse ⓘ |
| producer | Alfred Hitchcock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 1955-10-03 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1955 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 99 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | John Michael Hayes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
Vermont
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
small town ⓘ |
| starring |
Edmund Gwenn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jerry Mathers NERFINISHED ⓘ John Forsythe NERFINISHED ⓘ Mildred Natwick NERFINISHED ⓘ Shirley MacLaine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | contemporary to 1950s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Trouble with Harry Description of subject: The Trouble with Harry is a 1955 dark comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, known for its macabre humor surrounding a mysteriously reappearing corpse in a small Vermont town.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.