Blockade
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"Blockade" is a 1938 American drama film set during the Spanish Civil War, starring Henry Fonda and Madeleine Carroll and noted for its anti-war themes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blockade canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6904372 — 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: Blockade Context triple: [William Dieterle, directed, Blockade]
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A.
The Marine
The Marine is a 2006 action film starring professional wrestler and actor John Cena as a former Marine on a mission to rescue his kidnapped wife.
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B.
Follow the Fleet
Follow the Fleet is a 1936 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, known for its dance sequences, romantic comedy plot, and classic Irving Berlin songs.
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C.
Battle off Cape Engaño
The Battle off Cape Engaño was a World War II naval engagement in October 1944 in which U.S. carrier forces decimated a Japanese decoy carrier group during the larger Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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D.
The Big Blockade
The Big Blockade is a 1942 British wartime propaganda film, produced by Ealing Studios, that dramatizes the economic blockade of Nazi Germany through a series of semi-documentary vignettes.
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E.
The Landings
The Landings is a residential neighborhood that forms one of the planned subdivisions within the Burke Centre community in Fairfax County, Virginia.
- 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: Blockade Target entity description: "Blockade" is a 1938 American drama film set during the Spanish Civil War, starring Henry Fonda and Madeleine Carroll and noted for its anti-war themes.
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A.
The Marine
The Marine is a 2006 action film starring professional wrestler and actor John Cena as a former Marine on a mission to rescue his kidnapped wife.
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B.
Follow the Fleet
Follow the Fleet is a 1936 Hollywood musical film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, known for its dance sequences, romantic comedy plot, and classic Irving Berlin songs.
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C.
Battle off Cape Engaño
The Battle off Cape Engaño was a World War II naval engagement in October 1944 in which U.S. carrier forces decimated a Japanese decoy carrier group during the larger Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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D.
The Big Blockade
The Big Blockade is a 1942 British wartime propaganda film, produced by Ealing Studios, that dramatizes the economic blockade of Nazi Germany through a series of semi-documentary vignettes.
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E.
The Landings
The Landings is a residential neighborhood that forms one of the planned subdivisions within the Burke Centre community in Fairfax County, Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| castMember |
Chris-Pin Martin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frank Puglia NERFINISHED ⓘ George Humbert NERFINISHED ⓘ John Halliday NERFINISHED ⓘ Leo Carrillo NERFINISHED ⓘ Lowell Gilmore NERFINISHED ⓘ Ona Munson NERFINISHED ⓘ Reginald Denny NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Warwick NERFINISHED ⓘ Vladimir Sokoloff NERFINISHED ⓘ William B. Davidson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Rudolph Maté NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Werner Janssen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | William Dieterle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | United Artists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Sherman Todd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
romantic drama film ⓘ war film ⓘ |
| hasAntiWarMessage | true ⓘ |
| hasFilmRating | Approved (Production Code Administration) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
Spanish Civil War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
anti-war ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Spanish peasant
ⓘ
foreign correspondent ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation |
Mediterranean Sea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Film Editing
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Original Story NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portraysConflict | Spanish Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Walter Wanger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Walter Wanger Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1938-06-19 ⓘ |
| releaseEra | Golden Age of Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1938 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 85 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | John Howard Lawson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Spanish Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Henry Fonda
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Madeleine Carroll NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Blockade 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: Blockade Description of subject: "Blockade" is a 1938 American drama film set during the Spanish Civil War, starring Henry Fonda and Madeleine Carroll and noted for its anti-war themes.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.