The Whistler (1944 film)
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The Whistler (1944 film) is a 1944 American mystery thriller based on the popular radio series, following a guilt-ridden businessman entangled in a deadly murder-for-hire plot.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Whistler (1944 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5643777 — 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 Whistler (1944 film) Context triple: [Richard Dix, starredIn, The Whistler (1944 film)]
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A.
Reap the Wild Wind
Reap the Wild Wind is a 1942 seafaring adventure film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, known for its maritime salvage drama set in the 1840s along the Florida coast.
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B.
The Women (1939 film)
The Women (1939 film) is a classic American comedy-drama directed by George Cukor, notable for its all-female cast and sharp, satirical portrayal of high-society relationships and gossip.
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C.
Random Harvest
Random Harvest is a 1942 romantic drama film, based on James Hilton’s novel, renowned for its amnesia-driven love story and considered one of director Mervyn LeRoy’s most enduring works.
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D.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir is a 1947 romantic fantasy film about a young widow who forms an unusual bond with the ghost of a sea captain haunting her seaside cottage.
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E.
Whistle Down the Wind
Whistle Down the Wind is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the 1961 film and known for its blend of rock-influenced score and religious themes set in rural America.
- 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 Whistler (1944 film) Target entity description: The Whistler (1944 film) is a 1944 American mystery thriller based on the popular radio series, following a guilt-ridden businessman entangled in a deadly murder-for-hire plot.
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A.
Reap the Wild Wind
Reap the Wild Wind is a 1942 seafaring adventure film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, known for its maritime salvage drama set in the 1840s along the Florida coast.
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B.
The Women (1939 film)
The Women (1939 film) is a classic American comedy-drama directed by George Cukor, notable for its all-female cast and sharp, satirical portrayal of high-society relationships and gossip.
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C.
Random Harvest
Random Harvest is a 1942 romantic drama film, based on James Hilton’s novel, renowned for its amnesia-driven love story and considered one of director Mervyn LeRoy’s most enduring works.
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D.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir is a 1947 romantic fantasy film about a young widow who forms an unusual bond with the ghost of a sea captain haunting her seaside cottage.
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E.
Whistle Down the Wind
Whistle Down the Wind is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the 1961 film and known for its blend of rock-influenced score and religious themes set in rural America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Whistler (radio series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnGenre | radio mystery series ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | James S. Brown Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | William Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Jerome Thoms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 1940s American cinema ⓘ |
| filmColorType | black-and-white ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Mark of the Whistler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
mystery
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
fatalism
ⓘ
guilt ⓘ murder-for-hire ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Earl C. Conrad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | cinema ⓘ |
| musicBy | Wilbur Hatch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | omniscient narrator known as The Whistler ⓘ |
| narrator | Otto Forrest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | The Whistler film series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A guilt-ridden businessman hires a killer to murder him and then tries to call off the contract when he has a change of heart. ⓘ |
| producer | Rudolph C. Flothow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| productionStudioSystem | Hollywood studio system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1944 ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1940s ⓘ |
| releaseFormat | theatrical film ⓘ |
| runtime | 59 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Eric Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| starring |
Alan Dinehart
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cy Kendall NERFINISHED ⓘ Gloria Stuart NERFINISHED ⓘ J. Carrol Naish NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Woodbury NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Dix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Whistler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: The Whistler (1944 film) Description of subject: The Whistler (1944 film) is a 1944 American mystery thriller based on the popular radio series, following a guilt-ridden businessman entangled in a deadly murder-for-hire plot.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.