Whisky Galore!
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"Whisky Galore!" is a classic 1949 British comedy film, based on Compton Mackenzie’s novel, about Scottish islanders salvaging a shipwrecked cargo of whisky during wartime rationing.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Whisky Galore! canonical | 6 |
| Whisky Galore shipwreck association | 1 |
| film "Whisky Galore!" (1949) | 1 |
| film "Whisky Galore!" (2016) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5778646 — 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: Whisky Galore! Context triple: [Michael Balcon, notableWork, Whisky Galore!]
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A.
Auld Grey Town
Auld Grey Town is the traditional nickname for Kendal, a historic market town in Cumbria, England, known for its grey limestone buildings and long-standing role as a regional center.
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B.
Brigadoon
Brigadoon is a 1954 MGM musical fantasy film, directed by Vincente Minnelli and based on the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, about a mysterious Scottish village that appears for only one day every hundred years.
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C.
Poor Mr. Chisholm
"Poor Mr. Chisholm" is a song by the band Second Chorus, recognized as one of their notable tracks.
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D.
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
"Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less" is a bestselling debut novel by Jeffrey Archer, a fast-paced financial revenge thriller about four men swindled by a corrupt tycoon who plot to recover exactly what they lost.
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E.
Tam o' Shanter
Tam o' Shanter is a narrative poem by Robert Burns that humorously recounts a drunken farmer’s terrifying nighttime encounter with witches and other supernatural beings.
- 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: Whisky Galore! Target entity description: "Whisky Galore!" is a classic 1949 British comedy film, based on Compton Mackenzie’s novel, about Scottish islanders salvaging a shipwrecked cargo of whisky during wartime rationing.
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A.
Auld Grey Town
Auld Grey Town is the traditional nickname for Kendal, a historic market town in Cumbria, England, known for its grey limestone buildings and long-standing role as a regional center.
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B.
Brigadoon
Brigadoon is a 1954 MGM musical fantasy film, directed by Vincente Minnelli and based on the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, about a mysterious Scottish village that appears for only one day every hundred years.
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C.
Poor Mr. Chisholm
"Poor Mr. Chisholm" is a song by the band Second Chorus, recognized as one of their notable tracks.
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D.
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
"Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less" is a bestselling debut novel by Jeffrey Archer, a fast-paced financial revenge thriller about four men swindled by a corrupt tycoon who plot to recover exactly what they lost.
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E.
Tam o' Shanter
Tam o' Shanter is a narrative poem by Robert Burns that humorously recounts a drunken farmer’s terrifying nighttime encounter with witches and other supernatural beings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| alternateTitle | Tight Little Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alternateTitleUsedIn | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Compton Mackenzie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Whisky Galore! (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
Basil Radford
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bruce Seton NERFINISHED ⓘ Catherine Lacey NERFINISHED ⓘ Gordon Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ James Robertson Justice NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean Cadell NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Greenwood NERFINISHED ⓘ John Gregson NERFINISHED ⓘ Morland Graham NERFINISHED ⓘ Wylie Watson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Gerald Gibbs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Alexander Mackendrick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | General Film Distributors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributorInUS | Universal-International NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Russell Lloyd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Barra
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Outer Hebrides NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Ealing comedy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
comedy ⓘ |
| hasRemake | Whisky Galore! (2016 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Captain Waggett
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
George Campbell NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Macroon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Ernest Irving NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrator | Finlay Currie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the classic Ealing comedies ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | Scottish islanders attempt to salvage a shipwrecked cargo of whisky during wartime rationing. ⓘ |
| producer | Monja Danischewsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Ealing Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfSourceNovel | 1947 ⓘ |
| releaseDateInUK | 1949 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1949 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 82 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Angus MacPhail
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Compton Mackenzie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setDuring | Second World War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInCountry | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodDepicted | wartime rationing in Britain ⓘ |
| title | Whisky Galore! 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: Whisky Galore! Description of subject: "Whisky Galore!" is a classic 1949 British comedy film, based on Compton Mackenzie’s novel, about Scottish islanders salvaging a shipwrecked cargo of whisky during wartime rationing.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Michael Balcon
subject surface form:
Eriskay
this entity surface form:
Whisky Galore shipwreck association
this entity surface form:
film "Whisky Galore!" (1949)
this entity surface form:
film "Whisky Galore!" (2016)