I Was a Spy
E672959
I Was a Spy is a 1933 British war drama film about a Belgian woman who becomes a spy during World War I.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| I Was a Spy canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7562033 — 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: I Was a Spy Context triple: [Gertrude Michael, performedIn, I Was a Spy]
-
A.
The Spy
"The Spy" is an 1821 historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper set during the American Revolutionary War, often regarded as one of the earliest major works of American fiction.
-
B.
The Spy
The Spy is a film featuring Russian actress Svetlana Khodchenkova in a prominent role within a Cold War espionage narrative.
-
C.
The Catcher Was a Spy
The Catcher Was a Spy is a 2018 biographical spy drama film about Major League Baseball player-turned-World War II spy Moe Berg, based on Nicholas Dawidoff’s nonfiction book of the same name.
-
D.
The Spy Next Door
The Spy Next Door is a 2010 family action-comedy film starring Jackie Chan as a babysitting spy whose mission goes awry when he must protect the children in his care from dangerous enemies.
-
E.
Spies
Spies is a German-origin surname most notably associated with August Spies, a prominent 19th-century anarchist and labor activist involved in the Haymarket affair.
- 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: I Was a Spy Target entity description: I Was a Spy is a 1933 British war drama film about a Belgian woman who becomes a spy during World War I.
-
A.
The Spy
"The Spy" is an 1821 historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper set during the American Revolutionary War, often regarded as one of the earliest major works of American fiction.
-
B.
The Spy
The Spy is a film featuring Russian actress Svetlana Khodchenkova in a prominent role within a Cold War espionage narrative.
-
C.
The Catcher Was a Spy
The Catcher Was a Spy is a 2018 biographical spy drama film about Major League Baseball player-turned-World War II spy Moe Berg, based on Nicholas Dawidoff’s nonfiction book of the same name.
-
D.
The Spy Next Door
The Spy Next Door is a 2010 family action-comedy film starring Jackie Chan as a babysitting spy whose mission goes awry when he must protect the children in his care from dangerous enemies.
-
E.
Spies
Spies is a German-origin surname most notably associated with August Spies, a prominent 19th-century anarchist and labor activist involved in the Haymarket affair.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
I Was a Spy (autobiography)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
autobiography of Marthe Cnockaert ⓘ |
| characterIn | Marthe Cnockaert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Charles Van Enger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfSetting | Belgium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticalReception | well received in Britain on release ⓘ |
| director | Victor Saville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedIn | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Gaumont British Distributors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Ian Dalrymple NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 1930s British cinema ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Islington Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| genre |
spy film
ⓘ
war drama ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Belgian Resistance
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
World War I NERFINISHED ⓘ espionage ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActor |
Herbert Marshall
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Madeleine Carroll NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadRoleCharacter | Marthe Cnockaert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Louis Levy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | Belgian woman who becomes a spy for the Allies ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of female espionage in World War I ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Michael Balcon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Gainsborough Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1933-09-04 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1933 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 86 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Edwin Greenwood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
W. P. Lipscomb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | German-occupied Belgium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starred |
Conrad Veidt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edmund Gwenn NERFINISHED ⓘ Herbert Marshall NERFINISHED ⓘ Madeleine Carroll NERFINISHED ⓘ Martita Hunt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | World War I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | I Was a Spy 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: I Was a Spy Description of subject: I Was a Spy is a 1933 British war drama film about a Belgian woman who becomes a spy during World War I.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.