Ambush
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"Ambush" is a 1950 American Western film starring Robert Taylor and John Hodiak, centered on a cavalry mission to rescue a woman kidnapped by Apaches.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ambush canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6924814 — 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: Ambush Context triple: [John Hodiak, notableWork, Ambush]
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A.
L’Assaut
L’Assaut is a French film best known for featuring actress Rachida Brakni in a prominent role.
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B.
The War Zone
The War Zone is a 1999 British drama film, adapted from Alexander Stuart’s novel, that starkly explores familial abuse and trauma.
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C.
Guardia de Asalto
The Guardia de Asalto was a Spanish Republican-era urban police and paramilitary force known for its role in maintaining public order and later fighting on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War.
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D.
Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
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E.
Blitz
Blitz is the Seattle Seahawks’ official blue and green anthropomorphic bird mascot who entertains fans at games and team events.
- 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: Ambush Target entity description: "Ambush" is a 1950 American Western film starring Robert Taylor and John Hodiak, centered on a cavalry mission to rescue a woman kidnapped by Apaches.
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A.
L’Assaut
L’Assaut is a French film best known for featuring actress Rachida Brakni in a prominent role.
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B.
The War Zone
The War Zone is a 1999 British drama film, adapted from Alexander Stuart’s novel, that starkly explores familial abuse and trauma.
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C.
Guardia de Asalto
The Guardia de Asalto was a Spanish Republican-era urban police and paramilitary force known for its role in maintaining public order and later fighting on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War.
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D.
Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
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E.
Blitz
Blitz is the Seattle Seahawks’ official blue and green anthropomorphic bird mascot who entertains fans at games and team events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western film
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film ⓘ |
| actorForCaptBenLorrison | John Hodiak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| actorForMaryCarlyle | Arlene Dahl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Luke Short NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Ambush by Luke Short NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Harold Lipstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Sam Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedInFormat | theatrical film ⓘ |
| distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| editedBy | Cotton Warburton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmColorProcess | black-and-white ⓘ |
| genre | Western NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
U.S. Cavalry vs. Apache conflict
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
frontier rescue mission ⓘ |
| historicalSetting | post-American Civil War era ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActorForCharacterWardKinsman | Robert Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadCharacter | Ward Kinsman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | cinema ⓘ |
| musicBy | Rudolph G. Kopp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A cavalry mission attempts to rescue a woman kidnapped by Apaches. ⓘ |
| producer | Sam Zimbalist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1950-01-13 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1950 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 89 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Marguerite Roberts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | New Mexico Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Arlene Dahl
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bruce Cowling NERFINISHED ⓘ Don Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ James Whitmore NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean Hagen NERFINISHED ⓘ John Hodiak NERFINISHED ⓘ John McIntire NERFINISHED ⓘ Leon Ames NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportingCharacter |
Capt. Ben Lorrison
NERFINISHED
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Mary Carlyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Ambush NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 1950 ⓘ |
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: Ambush Description of subject: "Ambush" is a 1950 American Western film starring Robert Taylor and John Hodiak, centered on a cavalry mission to rescue a woman kidnapped by Apaches.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.