Signpost to Murder
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Signpost to Murder is a 1964 psychological thriller film directed by George Englund, centered on an escaped mental patient entangled in a web of murder and deception.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Signpost to Murder canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7257165 — 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: Signpost to Murder Context triple: [George Englund, notableWork, Signpost to Murder]
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A.
A Blueprint for Murder
A Blueprint for Murder is a 1953 American film noir thriller in which Gary Merrill stars in a tense story of suspected poisoning and inheritance-driven murder.
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B.
The Case of the Postponed Murder
The Case of the Postponed Murder is a Perry Mason detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner featuring the famed defense attorney unraveling a complex murder plot.
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C.
A Slight Case of Murder
A Slight Case of Murder is a 1938 crime-comedy film starring Edward G. Robinson as a reformed bootlegger whose attempts to go straight lead to a series of comic mishaps.
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D.
Murder Was the Case
Murder Was the Case is a 1994 hip hop soundtrack album and short film project centered on Snoop Doggy Dogg, featuring various West Coast rap artists and produced by Dr. Dre.
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E.
The Talk Show Murders
The Talk Show Murders is a mystery novel by comedian and television pioneer Steve Allen that blends show-business satire with a talk-show-themed whodunit 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: Signpost to Murder Target entity description: Signpost to Murder is a 1964 psychological thriller film directed by George Englund, centered on an escaped mental patient entangled in a web of murder and deception.
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A.
A Blueprint for Murder
A Blueprint for Murder is a 1953 American film noir thriller in which Gary Merrill stars in a tense story of suspected poisoning and inheritance-driven murder.
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B.
The Case of the Postponed Murder
The Case of the Postponed Murder is a Perry Mason detective novel by Erle Stanley Gardner featuring the famed defense attorney unraveling a complex murder plot.
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C.
A Slight Case of Murder
A Slight Case of Murder is a 1938 crime-comedy film starring Edward G. Robinson as a reformed bootlegger whose attempts to go straight lead to a series of comic mishaps.
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D.
Murder Was the Case
Murder Was the Case is a 1994 hip hop soundtrack album and short film project centered on Snoop Doggy Dogg, featuring various West Coast rap artists and produced by Dr. Dre.
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E.
The Talk Show Murders
The Talk Show Murders is a mystery novel by comedian and television pioneer Steve Allen that blends show-business satire with a talk-show-themed whodunit plot.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | play "Signpost to Murder" ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Paul Vogel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dialogueLanguage | English ⓘ |
| director | George Englund NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributorRegion |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| editedBy | Ralph E. Winters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingStyle | studio production ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| genre | psychological thriller ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
deception
ⓘ
mental illness ⓘ murder ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| musicBy | Miklós Rózsa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | feature film ⓘ |
| originalNetworkOrMedium | theatrical release ⓘ |
| plotSummary | An escaped mental patient becomes entangled in a web of murder and deception. ⓘ |
| producer | George Englund NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1964 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 78 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Sally Benson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | rural England ⓘ |
| stars |
Alan Napier
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edward Mulhare NERFINISHED ⓘ Joanne Woodward NERFINISHED ⓘ Joyce Worsley NERFINISHED ⓘ Stuart Whitman 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: Signpost to Murder Description of subject: Signpost to Murder is a 1964 psychological thriller film directed by George Englund, centered on an escaped mental patient entangled in a web of murder and deception.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.