Dead End
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"Dead End" is a 1937 American crime drama film, directed by William Wyler and based on Sidney Kingsley's play, that helped popularize the Dead End Kids and featured Marjorie Main in a notable role.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dead End canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6697791 — 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: Dead End Context triple: [Marjorie Main, notableWork, Dead End]
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A.
End of the Line
"End of the Line" is a 1988 folk-rock song by the supergroup Traveling Wilburys, celebrated for its upbeat reflection on resilience and camaraderie and for featuring contributions from all the band’s members.
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B.
Dead and Gone
"Dead and Gone" is a hit hip-hop/R&B single by T.I. featuring Justin Timberlake, known for its reflective lyrics about violence, loss, and personal transformation.
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C.
The End of Something
"The End of Something" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that explores themes of change and the dissolution of a relationship against the backdrop of a declining mill town.
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D.
Learning To Die
"Learning To Die" is a song by the American heavy metal band Dust, known for its early 1970s hard rock sound and featuring future Ramones drummer Marky Ramone.
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E.
Last Exit
"Last Exit" is the hard-driving opening track from Pearl Jam's 1994 album *Vitalogy*, known for its raw energy and tense, urgent sound.
- 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: Dead End Target entity description: "Dead End" is a 1937 American crime drama film, directed by William Wyler and based on Sidney Kingsley's play, that helped popularize the Dead End Kids and featured Marjorie Main in a notable role.
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A.
End of the Line
"End of the Line" is a 1988 folk-rock song by the supergroup Traveling Wilburys, celebrated for its upbeat reflection on resilience and camaraderie and for featuring contributions from all the band’s members.
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B.
Dead and Gone
"Dead and Gone" is a hit hip-hop/R&B single by T.I. featuring Justin Timberlake, known for its reflective lyrics about violence, loss, and personal transformation.
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C.
The End of Something
"The End of Something" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that explores themes of change and the dissolution of a relationship against the backdrop of a declining mill town.
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D.
Learning To Die
"Learning To Die" is a song by the American heavy metal band Dust, known for its early 1970s hard rock sound and featuring future Ramones drummer Marky Ramone.
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E.
Last Exit
"Last Exit" is the hard-driving opening track from Pearl Jam's 1994 album *Vitalogy*, known for its raw energy and tense, urgent sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American crime drama film
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film ⓘ |
| artDirector | Richard Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Dead End NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Sidney Kingsley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkType | play ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Gregg Toland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| costumeDesigner | Omar Kiam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | William Wyler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | United States theatrical release ⓘ |
| editor | Daniel Mandell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresGroup | Dead End Kids NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
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drama film ⓘ |
| leadCharacter |
Dave Connell
NERFINISHED
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Drina Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ Hugh "Baby Face" Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Alfred Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | slum life ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Art Direction
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Academy Award for Best Cinematography ⓘ Academy Award for Best Picture ⓘ |
| notableFor | popularizing the Dead End Kids ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Samuel Goldwyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Samuel Goldwyn Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 1937-08-27 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1937 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 93 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Lillian Hellman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
East River
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ |
| sourceMaterialMedium | Broadway play ⓘ |
| sourceMaterialPremiereYear | 1935 ⓘ |
| sourceMaterialTitle | Dead End NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Allen Jenkins
NERFINISHED
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Claire Trevor NERFINISHED ⓘ Humphrey Bogart NERFINISHED ⓘ Joel McCrea NERFINISHED ⓘ Marjorie Main NERFINISHED ⓘ Sylvia Sidney NERFINISHED ⓘ Wendy Barrie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Dead End 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: Dead End Description of subject: "Dead End" is a 1937 American crime drama film, directed by William Wyler and based on Sidney Kingsley's play, that helped popularize the Dead End Kids and featured Marjorie Main in a notable role.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Marjorie Main