M (1931 film)
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M (1931 film) is a landmark German thriller directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its pioneering use of sound and its chilling portrayal of a child murderer hunted by both police and criminals.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| M (1931 film) canonical | 5 |
| M (1931 film screenplay) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6135225 — 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: M (1931 film) Context triple: [M (1951 film), basedOn, M (1931 film)]
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A.
Midnight (1939 film)
Midnight (1939 film) is a 1939 screwball romantic comedy directed by Mitchell Leisen, starring Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche, and written by the famed screenwriting duo Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett.
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B.
It (1927 film)
It (1927 film) is a silent romantic comedy that popularized the concept of the "It girl" and cemented Clara Bow’s status as a major Hollywood star of the 1920s.
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C.
Fury (1936 film)
Fury (1936 film) is a 1936 American drama directed by Fritz Lang that explores mob violence and wrongful accusation through the story of an innocent man nearly lynched by a vengeful crowd.
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D.
Mother (1926 film)
Mother (1926 film) is a seminal Soviet silent drama directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, renowned for its innovative use of montage and its powerful depiction of revolutionary struggle.
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E.
Camille (1936)
Camille (1936) is a classic romantic drama film starring Greta Garbo, renowned for its tragic love story and considered one of the high points of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
- 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: M (1931 film) Target entity description: M (1931 film) is a landmark German thriller directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its pioneering use of sound and its chilling portrayal of a child murderer hunted by both police and criminals.
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A.
Midnight (1939 film)
Midnight (1939 film) is a 1939 screwball romantic comedy directed by Mitchell Leisen, starring Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche, and written by the famed screenwriting duo Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett.
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B.
It (1927 film)
It (1927 film) is a silent romantic comedy that popularized the concept of the "It girl" and cemented Clara Bow’s status as a major Hollywood star of the 1920s.
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C.
Fury (1936 film)
Fury (1936 film) is a 1936 American drama directed by Fritz Lang that explores mob violence and wrongful accusation through the story of an innocent man nearly lynched by a vengeful crowd.
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D.
Mother (1926 film)
Mother (1926 film) is a seminal Soviet silent drama directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, renowned for its innovative use of montage and its powerful depiction of revolutionary struggle.
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E.
Camille (1936)
Camille (1936) is a classic romantic drama film starring Greta Garbo, renowned for its tragic love story and considered one of the high points of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedBy | Hans Beckert – Peter Lorre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Fritz Arno Wagner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| director | Fritz Lang NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Nero-Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Paul Falkenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | early sound cinema ⓘ |
| filmDebutOf | Peter Lorre in a major role ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Babelsberg Studios
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | sound film ⓘ |
| genre |
crime
ⓘ
drama ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasFilmRating | considered one of the greatest films of all time ⓘ |
| hasRemake | M (1951 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
criminal underworld
ⓘ
justice ⓘ mass hysteria ⓘ vigilantism ⓘ |
| includedInList | Sight & Sound greatest films polls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Hans Beckert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Edmund Meisel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depiction of manhunt by police and criminals
ⓘ
pioneering use of sound ⓘ portrayal of a child murderer ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| portrays | serial child murderer ⓘ |
| premiereLocation | Berlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Seymour Nebenzal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Nero-Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1931-05-11 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1931 ⓘ |
| runningTime | approximately 110 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Fritz Lang
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thea von Harbou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Weimar Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| soundtrackFeature | use of whistled motif from Edvard Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King ⓘ |
| stars |
Gustaf Gründgens
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Otto Wernicke NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Lorre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | M NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: M (1931 film) Description of subject: M (1931 film) is a landmark German thriller directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its pioneering use of sound and its chilling portrayal of a child murderer hunted by both police and criminals.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
M (1951 film)
this entity surface form:
M (1931 film screenplay)