The Halfway House
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The Halfway House is a 1944 British supernatural drama film, produced by Ealing Studios, that intertwines wartime themes with ghostly elements in a Welsh inn.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Halfway House canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5778667 — 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 Halfway House Context triple: [Michael Balcon, notableWork, The Halfway House]
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A.
Halfway House
Halfway House is the former name of the South African town now known as Midrand, located between Johannesburg and Pretoria.
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B.
The Other Half
The Other Half is a 2016 Canadian romantic drama film starring Tatiana Maslany and Tom Cullen that explores love, mental illness, and grief.
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C.
The Ditch
The Ditch is a colloquial nickname for the Tasman Sea, the body of water separating Australia and New Zealand.
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D.
The Shelter
"The Shelter" is a 1961 episode of the anthology television series The Twilight Zone that explores Cold War paranoia and the dark side of human nature when neighbors turn against each other over access to a fallout shelter.
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E.
The Corner That Held Them
The Corner That Held Them is a 1948 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner that portrays several centuries in the life of a medieval English convent through a series of episodic, quietly ironic vignettes.
- 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 Halfway House Target entity description: The Halfway House is a 1944 British supernatural drama film, produced by Ealing Studios, that intertwines wartime themes with ghostly elements in a Welsh inn.
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A.
Halfway House
Halfway House is the former name of the South African town now known as Midrand, located between Johannesburg and Pretoria.
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B.
The Other Half
The Other Half is a 2016 Canadian romantic drama film starring Tatiana Maslany and Tom Cullen that explores love, mental illness, and grief.
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C.
The Ditch
The Ditch is a colloquial nickname for the Tasman Sea, the body of water separating Australia and New Zealand.
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D.
The Shelter
"The Shelter" is a 1961 episode of the anthology television series The Twilight Zone that explores Cold War paranoia and the dark side of human nature when neighbors turn against each other over access to a fallout shelter.
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E.
The Corner That Held Them
The Corner That Held Them is a 1948 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner that portrays several centuries in the life of a medieval English convent through a series of episodic, quietly ironic vignettes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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supernatural drama film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Peaceful Inn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | D. E. Stevenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| castMember |
Alfred Drayton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Esmond Knight NERFINISHED ⓘ Françoise Rosay NERFINISHED ⓘ Glynis Johns NERFINISHED ⓘ Guy Middleton NERFINISHED ⓘ Mervyn Johns NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Bird NERFINISHED ⓘ Sally Ann Howes NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Walls NERFINISHED ⓘ Valerie White NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Wilkie Cooper NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | William Alwyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsElement |
ghosts
ⓘ
time anomaly ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfSetting | Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Basil Dearden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Ealing Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Charles Hasse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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fantasy film ⓘ supernatural film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
World War II
NERFINISHED
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afterlife ⓘ death ⓘ redemption ⓘ second chances ⓘ supernatural ⓘ wartime trauma ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | group of guests at an isolated inn ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | Welsh inn ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Michael Balcon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Ealing Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionStudioEra | Ealing Studios wartime period ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1940s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1944 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 92 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Angus MacPhail
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
D. E. Stevenson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setDuring | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The Halfway House Description of subject: The Halfway House is a 1944 British supernatural drama film, produced by Ealing Studios, that intertwines wartime themes with ghostly elements in a Welsh inn.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Michael Balcon