The Foreman Went to France
E546180
The Foreman Went to France is a 1942 British wartime drama film about a factory foreman who travels to France to secure vital machinery before the German invasion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Foreman Went to France canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5778662 — 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 Foreman Went to France Context triple: [Michael Balcon, notableWork, The Foreman Went to France]
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A.
Lion of Belfort
The Lion of Belfort is a monumental sandstone sculpture in Belfort, France, symbolizing French resistance during the Franco-Prussian War and created by Statue of Liberty sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.
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B.
“The Flight to Paris”
“The Flight to Paris” is a section of Charles A. Lindbergh’s autobiographical work *The Spirit of St. Louis* that recounts his historic 1927 solo nonstop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris.
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C.
The Fifer
The Fifer is a famous 1866 painting by Édouard Manet depicting a young military musician in a flat, poster-like style that anticipates modern art.
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D.
Loin des hommes
Loin des hommes is a French drama film set in 1950s Algeria that explores themes of colonialism, morality, and human connection amid the Algerian War.
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E.
La Moisson
La Moisson is a painting by French Post-Impressionist artist Émile Bernard, exemplifying his early synthetist style and interest in rural, agrarian themes.
- 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 Foreman Went to France Target entity description: The Foreman Went to France is a 1942 British wartime drama film about a factory foreman who travels to France to secure vital machinery before the German invasion.
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A.
Lion of Belfort
The Lion of Belfort is a monumental sandstone sculpture in Belfort, France, symbolizing French resistance during the Franco-Prussian War and created by Statue of Liberty sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.
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B.
“The Flight to Paris”
“The Flight to Paris” is a section of Charles A. Lindbergh’s autobiographical work *The Spirit of St. Louis* that recounts his historic 1927 solo nonstop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris.
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C.
The Fifer
The Fifer is a famous 1866 painting by Édouard Manet depicting a young military musician in a flat, poster-like style that anticipates modern art.
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D.
Loin des hommes
Loin des hommes is a French drama film set in 1950s Algeria that explores themes of colonialism, morality, and human connection amid the Algerian War.
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E.
La Moisson
La Moisson is a painting by French Post-Impressionist artist Émile Bernard, exemplifying his early synthetist style and interest in rural, agrarian themes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | story by J. O. C. Orton ⓘ |
| castMember |
Bernard Miles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Clifford Evans NERFINISHED ⓘ Constance Cummings NERFINISHED ⓘ Gordon Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ Griffith Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Morley NERFINISHED ⓘ Tommy Trinder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Ronald Neame NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | William Alwyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfRelease | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Charles Frend NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | General Film Distributors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Michael Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| filmingStudio | Ealing Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
war ⓘ war drama ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Foreman Went to France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | factory foreman ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation |
France
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A factory foreman travels to France to secure vital machinery before the German invasion in the Second World War. ⓘ |
| producer | Michael Balcon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Ealing Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionType | wartime production ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1942 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 87 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | J. O. C. Orton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setDuring | Second World War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
German invasion of France
ⓘ
civilian contribution to war effort ⓘ industrial machinery ⓘ |
| warDepicted | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfRelease | 1942 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Foreman Went to France Description of subject: The Foreman Went to France is a 1942 British wartime drama film about a factory foreman who travels to France to secure vital machinery before the German invasion.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Michael Balcon