Criss Cross
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Criss Cross is a 1949 film noir crime drama starring Burt Lancaster and Yvonne De Carlo, known for its tale of a doomed heist and fatalistic romance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Criss Cross canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5551010 — 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: Criss Cross Context triple: [Yvonne De Carlo, notableWork, Criss Cross]
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A.
"At the Crossroads"
"At the Crossroads" is the English title of the Israeli film "Al Parashat Derakhim," a drama exploring intersecting lives and moral choices.
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B.
Chain of Fools
"Chain of Fools" is a classic 1967 soul song performed by Aretha Franklin, renowned for its powerful vocals, driving groove, and enduring influence in R&B music.
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C.
Cruisin'
"Cruisin'" is a smooth, romantic soul ballad by Smokey Robinson that became one of his signature solo hits after its release in 1979.
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D.
Between Riverside and Crazy
"Between Riverside and Crazy" is a Pulitzer Prize–winning dark comedy-drama play by Stephen Adly Guirgis that explores race, family, and gentrification through the story of a retired New York City cop fighting eviction from his rent-controlled apartment.
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E.
Strike Up the Band
"Strike Up the Band" is a 1940 MGM musical film starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, known for its lively song-and-dance numbers and classic big-band era 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: Criss Cross Target entity description: Criss Cross is a 1949 film noir crime drama starring Burt Lancaster and Yvonne De Carlo, known for its tale of a doomed heist and fatalistic romance.
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A.
"At the Crossroads"
"At the Crossroads" is the English title of the Israeli film "Al Parashat Derakhim," a drama exploring intersecting lives and moral choices.
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B.
Chain of Fools
"Chain of Fools" is a classic 1967 soul song performed by Aretha Franklin, renowned for its powerful vocals, driving groove, and enduring influence in R&B music.
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C.
Cruisin'
"Cruisin'" is a smooth, romantic soul ballad by Smokey Robinson that became one of his signature solo hits after its release in 1979.
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D.
Between Riverside and Crazy
"Between Riverside and Crazy" is a Pulitzer Prize–winning dark comedy-drama play by Stephen Adly Guirgis that explores race, family, and gentrification through the story of a retired New York City cop fighting eviction from his rent-controlled apartment.
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E.
Strike Up the Band
"Strike Up the Band" is a 1940 MGM musical film starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney, known for its lively song-and-dance numbers and classic big-band era style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Don Tracy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Criss Cross by Don Tracy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| character | Slim Dundee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Franz Planer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Robert Siodmak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Edward Curtiss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | post-war American cinema ⓘ |
| filmMovement | classic film noir ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
film noir ⓘ heist film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
betrayal
ⓘ
crime and punishment ⓘ fatalism ⓘ obsessive love ⓘ |
| leadActorRole | Burt Lancaster as Steve Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActressRole | Yvonne De Carlo as Anna Dundee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadCharacter |
Anna Dundee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Steve Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Miklós Rózsa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | voice-over narration ⓘ |
| narrativeStructure | flashback ⓘ |
| notableFor |
doomed heist plot
ⓘ
fatalistic romance ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Mark Hellinger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal-International Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | January 19, 1949 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1949 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 88 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Daniel Fuchs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Alan Napier
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Burt Lancaster NERFINISHED ⓘ Dan Duryea NERFINISHED ⓘ Griff Barnett NERFINISHED ⓘ Meg Randall NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Long NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen McNally NERFINISHED ⓘ Yvonne De Carlo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Criss Cross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| villainRole | Dan Duryea as Slim Dundee 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: Criss Cross Description of subject: Criss Cross is a 1949 film noir crime drama starring Burt Lancaster and Yvonne De Carlo, known for its tale of a doomed heist and fatalistic romance.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.