The Window
E547952
"The Window" is a 1949 American film noir thriller about a young boy who witnesses a murder but struggles to convince adults that the crime really occurred.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Window canonical | 8 |
| The Window (1949 film) | 1 |
| The Window (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5830952 — 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 Window Context triple: [Bobby Driscoll, notableWork, The Window]
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A.
Ventanas
Ventanas is a small city in Ecuador’s Los Ríos Province, known primarily for its agricultural surroundings and role as a local commercial center.
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B.
Through the Window
"Through the Window" is a song featured on Eddie Vedder’s acoustic solo album "Higher Truth."
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C.
Through a Window
Through a Window is a book by primatologist Jane Goodall that reflects on her decades of research and personal experiences with chimpanzees in the wild.
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D.
Secret Window
Secret Window is a 2004 psychological thriller film, based on a Stephen King novella and starring Johnny Depp as a troubled writer confronted by a mysterious stranger accusing him of plagiarism.
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E.
Table by the Window
"Table by the Window" is a one-act play by Terence Rattigan, best known as one of the linked pieces in his collection Separate Tables, exploring themes of loneliness, repression, and human connection in a seaside hotel setting.
- 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 Window Target entity description: "The Window" is a 1949 American film noir thriller about a young boy who witnesses a murder but struggles to convince adults that the crime really occurred.
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A.
Ventanas
Ventanas is a small city in Ecuador’s Los Ríos Province, known primarily for its agricultural surroundings and role as a local commercial center.
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B.
Through the Window
"Through the Window" is a song featured on Eddie Vedder’s acoustic solo album "Higher Truth."
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C.
Through a Window
Through a Window is a book by primatologist Jane Goodall that reflects on her decades of research and personal experiences with chimpanzees in the wild.
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D.
Secret Window
Secret Window is a 2004 psychological thriller film, based on a Stephen King novella and starring Johnny Depp as a troubled writer confronted by a mysterious stranger accusing him of plagiarism.
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E.
Table by the Window
"Table by the Window" is a one-act play by Terence Rattigan, best known as one of the linked pieces in his collection Separate Tables, exploring themes of loneliness, repression, and human connection in a seaside hotel setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Cornell Woolrich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Film Editing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardRecipient | Frederic Knudtson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Boy Cried Murder
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Robert De Grasse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Leigh Harline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfRelease |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Ted Tetzlaff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
RKO
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
RKO Radio Pictures ⓘ |
| editor | Frederic Knudtson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
ⓘ
film noir ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| hasWikipediaPage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Window_(1949_film) ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Tommy Woodry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | Not Rated (original release) ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme | child witness not believed by adults ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A young boy witnesses a murder but struggles to convince adults that the crime really occurred. ⓘ |
| portraysCharacter |
Arthur Kennedy as Ed Woodry
ⓘ
Barbara Hale as Mary Woodry NERFINISHED ⓘ Bobby Driscoll as Tommy Woodry NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Stewart as Joe Kellerson NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruth Roman as Jean Kellerson ⓘ |
| producer | Fred C. Kohlmar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | RKO Radio Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistIs | young boy ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1940s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1949 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 73 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Mel Dinelli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Arthur Kennedy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Barbara Hale NERFINISHED ⓘ Bobby Driscoll NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruth Roman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Window 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: The Window Description of subject: "The Window" is a 1949 American film noir thriller about a young boy who witnesses a murder but struggles to convince adults that the crime really occurred.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Window (1949 film)
this entity surface form:
The Window (film)