The Lavender Hill Mob
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The Lavender Hill Mob is a classic 1951 British Ealing Studios comedy film about a timid bank clerk who masterminds a gold bullion heist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Lavender Hill Mob canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5778647 — 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 Lavender Hill Mob Context triple: [Michael Balcon, notableWork, The Lavender Hill Mob]
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A.
Brighton Rock
Brighton Rock is a 1947 British film noir crime drama, based on Graham Greene’s novel, in which Richard Attenborough gives a defining performance as the ruthless young gangster Pinkie Brown.
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B.
The Loved One
The Loved One is a darkly comic novella by Evelyn Waugh that satirizes the American funeral industry and Hollywood culture.
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C.
Molloy
Molloy is a modernist novel by Samuel Beckett that follows two interlinked, often absurd and introspective narratives exploring identity, language, and existential uncertainty.
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D.
A Murder of Quality
A Murder of Quality is a 1962 detective novel by John le Carré featuring intelligence officer George Smiley investigating a murder at an elite English boarding school.
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E.
The Code of the Mulliners
The Code of the Mulliners is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring one of Mr Mulliner’s comic family anecdotes set in his whimsical fictional universe.
- 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 Lavender Hill Mob Target entity description: The Lavender Hill Mob is a classic 1951 British Ealing Studios comedy film about a timid bank clerk who masterminds a gold bullion heist.
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A.
Brighton Rock
Brighton Rock is a 1947 British film noir crime drama, based on Graham Greene’s novel, in which Richard Attenborough gives a defining performance as the ruthless young gangster Pinkie Brown.
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B.
The Loved One
The Loved One is a darkly comic novella by Evelyn Waugh that satirizes the American funeral industry and Hollywood culture.
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C.
Molloy
Molloy is a modernist novel by Samuel Beckett that follows two interlinked, often absurd and introspective narratives exploring identity, language, and existential uncertainty.
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D.
A Murder of Quality
A Murder of Quality is a 1962 detective novel by John le Carré featuring intelligence officer George Smiley investigating a murder at an elite English boarding school.
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E.
The Code of the Mulliners
The Code of the Mulliners is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring one of Mr Mulliner’s comic family anecdotes set in his whimsical fictional universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| academyAwardCategoryWon | Best Writing, Story and Screenplay ⓘ |
| academyAwardsCeremony | 24th Academy Awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| award | Academy Award for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedInLocation | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Douglas Slocombe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Charles Crichton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
General Film Distributors
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Universal-International (United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Seth Holt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | British postwar cinema ⓘ |
| featuresPerformer | Audrey Hepburn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
crime ⓘ heist ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
crime gone wrong
ⓘ
ordinary man turned criminal mastermind ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Henry Holland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Georges Auric NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Actor ⓘ |
| nominatedPerformer | Alec Guinness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
comic treatment of a gold bullion robbery
ⓘ
performance of Alec Guinness ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Ealing comedies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A timid bank clerk masterminds a gold bullion heist and attempts to smuggle the gold out of the country. ⓘ |
| producer | Michael Balcon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Ealing Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | bank clerk ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | classic Ealing comedy ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1951-06-28 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1951 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 81 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | T. E. B. Clarke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | post-World War II era ⓘ |
| stars |
Alec Guinness
NERFINISHED
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Alfie Bass NERFINISHED ⓘ Marjorie Fielding NERFINISHED ⓘ Sid James NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanley Holloway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Lavender Hill Mob Description of subject: The Lavender Hill Mob is a classic 1951 British Ealing Studios comedy film about a timid bank clerk who masterminds a gold bullion heist.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Michael Balcon