Jamaica Inn
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Jamaica Inn is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from Daphne du Maurier’s novel about smuggling and intrigue on the Cornish coast.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jamaica Inn canonical | 6 |
| Jamaica Inn (1939 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5778685 — 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: Jamaica Inn Context triple: [Michael Balcon, notableWork, Jamaica Inn]
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A.
Storm on the Island
"Storm on the Island" is a poem by Seamus Heaney that vividly depicts an isolated island community’s tense relationship with the power and violence of nature.
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B.
Crow Island
Crow Island is a small island located within Sitka Sound off the coast of Baranof Island in southeastern Alaska.
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C.
Rebecca
Rebecca is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin meaning “to tie” or “to bind,” widely used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Jackson’s Bight
Jackson’s Bight is a popular dive and snorkeling site off Little Cayman, known for its clear waters, vibrant coral reefs, and abundant marine life.
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E.
The Sea Wall
The Sea Wall is a French drama film adaptation of Marguerite Duras’s novel, notable for Astrid Bergès-Frisbey’s acclaimed performance.
- 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: Jamaica Inn Target entity description: Jamaica Inn is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from Daphne du Maurier’s novel about smuggling and intrigue on the Cornish coast.
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A.
Storm on the Island
"Storm on the Island" is a poem by Seamus Heaney that vividly depicts an isolated island community’s tense relationship with the power and violence of nature.
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B.
Crow Island
Crow Island is a small island located within Sitka Sound off the coast of Baranof Island in southeastern Alaska.
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C.
Rebecca
Rebecca is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin meaning “to tie” or “to bind,” widely used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Jackson’s Bight
Jackson’s Bight is a popular dive and snorkeling site off Little Cayman, known for its clear waters, vibrant coral reefs, and abundant marine life.
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E.
The Sea Wall
The Sea Wall is a French drama film adaptation of Marguerite Duras’s novel, notable for Astrid Bergès-Frisbey’s acclaimed performance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Daphne du Maurier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Jamaica Inn (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Bernard Knowles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Alfred Hitchcock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | R. E. Dearing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure film
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Jem Trehearne
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mary Yellan NERFINISHED ⓘ Sir Humphrey Pengallan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Eric Fenby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | wreckers ⓘ |
| notableFor | being Alfred Hitchcock’s last British film before moving to Hollywood ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer |
Charles Laughton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Erich Pommer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Mayflower Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1939-05-11 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1939 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 108 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
J. B. Priestley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joan Harrison NERFINISHED ⓘ Sidney Gilliat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Cornish coast
ⓘ
Cornwall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Basil Radford
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charles Laughton NERFINISHED ⓘ Emlyn Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Horace Hodges NERFINISHED ⓘ Leslie Banks NERFINISHED ⓘ Mabel Terry-Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Marie Ney NERFINISHED ⓘ Maureen O’Hara NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Newton NERFINISHED ⓘ Wylie Watson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theme |
crime
ⓘ
intrigue ⓘ smuggling ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | early 19th century ⓘ |
| title | Jamaica Inn 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: Jamaica Inn Description of subject: Jamaica Inn is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from Daphne du Maurier’s novel about smuggling and intrigue on the Cornish coast.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Michael Balcon
this entity surface form:
Jamaica Inn (1939 film)