The Big Sleep (1978 film)
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The Big Sleep (1978 film) is a 1978 British neo-noir crime thriller directed by Michael Winner and starring Robert Mitchum as detective Philip Marlowe in an adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s classic novel.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Big Sleep (1978 film) canonical | 4 |
| The Big Sleep (1978 film adaptation) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6511810 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Big Sleep (1978 film) Context triple: [Candy Clark, notableWork, The Big Sleep (1978 film)]
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A.
The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye is a 1973 neo-noir film directed by Robert Altman, loosely based on Raymond Chandler’s novel and noted for its modern, offbeat take on private detective Philip Marlowe.
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B.
The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye is a memoir by Patti Davis that poignantly chronicles her father Ronald Reagan’s struggle with Alzheimer’s disease and its impact on their family.
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C.
The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep is a classic 1946 film noir mystery, directed by Howard Hawks and based on Raymond Chandler’s novel, renowned for its complex plot and iconic performances by Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
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D.
The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep is a 1939 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler that introduces private investigator Philip Marlowe in a complex tale of crime, blackmail, and moral ambiguity in Los Angeles.
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E.
Out of the Past
Out of the Past is a 1947 film noir classic starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer, renowned for its shadowy cinematography, fatalistic tone, and intricate flashback-driven plot.
- 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 Big Sleep (1978 film) Target entity description: The Big Sleep (1978 film) is a 1978 British neo-noir crime thriller directed by Michael Winner and starring Robert Mitchum as detective Philip Marlowe in an adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s classic novel.
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A.
The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye is a memoir by Patti Davis that poignantly chronicles her father Ronald Reagan’s struggle with Alzheimer’s disease and its impact on their family.
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B.
The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye is a 1973 neo-noir film directed by Robert Altman, loosely based on Raymond Chandler’s novel and noted for its modern, offbeat take on private detective Philip Marlowe.
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C.
The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep is a classic 1946 film noir mystery, directed by Howard Hawks and based on Raymond Chandler’s novel, renowned for its complex plot and iconic performances by Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.
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D.
The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep is a 1939 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler that introduces private investigator Philip Marlowe in a complex tale of crime, blackmail, and moral ambiguity in Los Angeles.
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E.
Out of the Past
Out of the Past is a 1947 film noir classic starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer, renowned for its shadowy cinematography, fatalistic tone, and intricate flashback-driven plot.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime thriller film
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film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | The Big Sleep (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Raymond Chandler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Big Sleep (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character | Philip Marlowe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Robert Paynter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Michael Winner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors
NERFINISHED
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ITC Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Malcolm Cooke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresDetective | Philip Marlowe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
crime
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neo-noir ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasEarlierFilmAdaptation | The Big Sleep (1946 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
blackmail
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murder mystery ⓘ private detective investigation ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActor | Robert Mitchum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Jerry Fielding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | transposing the novel’s setting from Los Angeles to contemporary England ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | Philip Marlowe film adaptations ⓘ |
| portrays | Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe ⓘ |
| producer | Michael Winner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfSourceWork | 1939 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 99 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Michael Winner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| starring |
Candy Clark
NERFINISHED
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Edward Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ James Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Collins NERFINISHED ⓘ John Mills NERFINISHED ⓘ Oliver Reed NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Boone NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Mitchum NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Miles 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 Big Sleep (1978 film) Description of subject: The Big Sleep (1978 film) is a 1978 British neo-noir crime thriller directed by Michael Winner and starring Robert Mitchum as detective Philip Marlowe in an adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s classic novel.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Big Sleep (1978 film adaptation)