The File on Thelma Jordon
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The File on Thelma Jordon is a 1950 film noir crime drama centered on a mysterious woman who ensnares a married assistant district attorney in a web of murder and deception.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The File on Thelma Jordon canonical | 2 |
| The File on Thelma Jordon (screenplay) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7004467 — 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: The File on Thelma Jordon Context triple: [Taylor Holmes, notableWork, The File on Thelma Jordon]
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A.
The Judge’s Daughter
"The Judge’s Daughter" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day, featured on their debut studio album 39/Smooth.
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B.
The Judge
*The Judge* is a 2014 American legal drama film starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall, centered on a big-city lawyer who returns to his hometown to defend his estranged father, a respected judge, against a murder charge.
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C.
The Judge's List
The Judge's List is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows a meticulous serial killer being hunted through the judicial system by a determined investigator.
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D.
The Taking of Miss Janie
The Taking of Miss Janie is a 1975 play by African American dramatist Ed Bullins that explores race, gender, and power dynamics in the context of the 1960s civil rights era.
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E.
The Bellamy Trial
The Bellamy Trial is a 1927 American courtroom drama film, notable as an early sound-era legal thriller.
- 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 File on Thelma Jordon Target entity description: The File on Thelma Jordon is a 1950 film noir crime drama centered on a mysterious woman who ensnares a married assistant district attorney in a web of murder and deception.
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A.
The Judge’s Daughter
"The Judge’s Daughter" is a song by American punk rock band Green Day, featured on their debut studio album 39/Smooth.
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B.
The Judge
*The Judge* is a 2014 American legal drama film starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall, centered on a big-city lawyer who returns to his hometown to defend his estranged father, a respected judge, against a murder charge.
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C.
The Judge's List
The Judge's List is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows a meticulous serial killer being hunted through the judicial system by a determined investigator.
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D.
The Taking of Miss Janie
The Taking of Miss Janie is a 1975 play by African American dramatist Ed Bullins that explores race, gender, and power dynamics in the context of the 1960s civil rights era.
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E.
The Bellamy Trial
The Bellamy Trial is a 1927 American courtroom drama film, notable as an early sound-era legal thriller.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| aspectOf | American film noir cycle ⓘ |
| basedOn | story by Marty Holland ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | George Barnes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| crimeTypeDepicted | murder ⓘ |
| director | Robert Siodmak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| distributorCountry | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Warren Low NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | classic Hollywood ⓘ |
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
film noir ⓘ |
| hasAffairSubplot | true ⓘ |
| hasCourtroomSequence | true ⓘ |
| leadActorRole | Wendell Corey as Cleve Marshall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActressRole | Barbara Stanwyck as Thelma Jordon ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Cleve Marshall
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thelma Jordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Victor Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
courtroom drama
ⓘ
murder investigation ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A mysterious woman draws a married assistant district attorney into an affair that leads to murder and a courtroom battle. ⓘ |
| producer | Hal B. Wallis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Hal Wallis Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1950-01-18 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1950 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 100 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Ketti Frings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | an unnamed American city ⓘ |
| starring |
Barbara Stanwyck
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joan Tetzel NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanley Ridges NERFINISHED ⓘ Wendell Corey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studioDistributorRelationship | Produced by Hal Wallis Productions and released by Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| theme |
adultery
ⓘ
betrayal ⓘ deception ⓘ moral corruption ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: The File on Thelma Jordon Description of subject: The File on Thelma Jordon is a 1950 film noir crime drama centered on a mysterious woman who ensnares a married assistant district attorney in a web of murder and deception.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The File on Thelma Jordon (screenplay)