The Moon Is Down
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The Moon Is Down is a 1943 American World War II drama film, adapted from John Steinbeck’s novel about resistance in an occupied town, directed by and starring Irving Pichel.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Moon Is Down canonical | 2 |
| The Moon Is Down (1943 film) | 1 |
| The Moon Is Down (screenplay) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7276757 — 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 Moon Is Down Context triple: [Irving Pichel, notableWork, The Moon Is Down]
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A.
The Eve of the War
"The Eve of the War" is the dramatic, orchestral-prog rock opening track and main theme of Jeff Wayne's concept album adaptation of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds."
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B.
In Another Country
"In Another Country" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that explores themes of war, alienation, and loss through the experiences of wounded soldiers in Milan during World War I.
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C.
The Face of War
The Face of War is a collection of Martha Gellhorn’s vivid, first-hand war reportage spanning multiple conflicts in the mid-20th century.
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D.
No Man's Land
No Man's Land is a 1975 play by Harold Pinter that blends memory, ambiguity, and dark humor in a tense encounter between two aging writers.
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E.
No Man's Land
No Man's Land is a 2001 Bosnian war drama film directed by Danis Tanović that explores the absurdity and tragedy of the Bosnian War through the story of soldiers trapped between enemy lines.
- 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 Moon Is Down Target entity description: The Moon Is Down is a 1943 American World War II drama film, adapted from John Steinbeck’s novel about resistance in an occupied town, directed by and starring Irving Pichel.
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A.
The Eve of the War
"The Eve of the War" is the dramatic, orchestral-prog rock opening track and main theme of Jeff Wayne's concept album adaptation of H.G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds."
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B.
In Another Country
"In Another Country" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway that explores themes of war, alienation, and loss through the experiences of wounded soldiers in Milan during World War I.
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C.
The Face of War
The Face of War is a collection of Martha Gellhorn’s vivid, first-hand war reportage spanning multiple conflicts in the mid-20th century.
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D.
No Man's Land
No Man's Land is a 1975 play by Harold Pinter that blends memory, ambiguity, and dark humor in a tense encounter between two aging writers.
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E.
No Man's Land
No Man's Land is a 2001 Bosnian war drama film directed by Danis Tanović that explores the absurdity and tragedy of the Bosnian War through the story of soldiers trapped between enemy lines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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World War II film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | The Moon Is Down (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | John Steinbeck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Moon Is Down (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Arthur C. Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Irving Pichel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
20th Century Fox
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Dorothy Spencer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingStyle | studio production ⓘ |
| format | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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war ⓘ |
| hasFilmPoster | The Moon Is Down 1943 poster ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Moon Is Down NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme | resistance to occupation ⓘ |
| musicBy | Alfred Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | occupied European town ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | American World War II cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays |
civilian resistance
ⓘ
military occupation ⓘ |
| producer | Louis D. Lighton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | March 1943 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1943 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 88 ⓘ |
| screenplayAdaptationBy | Nunnally Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Nunnally Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setDuring | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceWorkPublicationYear | 1942 ⓘ |
| stars |
Cedric Hardwicke
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dorris Bowdon NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Travers NERFINISHED ⓘ Irving Pichel NERFINISHED ⓘ Kent Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Lee J. Cobb NERFINISHED ⓘ Margaret Wycherly NERFINISHED ⓘ Natalie Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ William Post Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 1940s ⓘ |
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: The Moon Is Down Description of subject: The Moon Is Down is a 1943 American World War II drama film, adapted from John Steinbeck’s novel about resistance in an occupied town, directed by and starring Irving Pichel.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Moon Is Down (screenplay)
this entity surface form:
The Moon Is Down (1943 film)