The Glass Key
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The Glass Key is a 1942 American film noir crime drama starring Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd, adapted from Dashiell Hammett’s novel of the same name.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Glass Key canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7614040 — 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 Glass Key Context triple: [Constance Frances Marie Ockelman, notableWork, The Glass Key]
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A.
The Glass Key (novel)
The Glass Key (novel) is a 1931 hardboiled crime novel by Dashiell Hammett that follows fixer Ned Beaumont as he navigates political corruption, betrayal, and murder in an unnamed American city.
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B.
The Lady in the Lake
The Lady in the Lake is a 1943 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe as he unravels a complex mystery surrounding a missing woman and a body found in a remote lake.
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C.
Guilty by Suspicion
Guilty by Suspicion is a 1991 drama film about a Hollywood director facing the anti-communist blacklist era in 1950s America.
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D.
The Adventures of Sam Spade
The Adventures of Sam Spade is a classic American radio drama series from the 1940s that follows hard-boiled private detective Sam Spade through witty, fast-paced crime and mystery cases.
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E.
The Glass Key (1935 film)
The Glass Key (1935 film) is an American crime drama based on Dashiell Hammett’s novel, featuring political corruption and underworld intrigue.
- 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 Glass Key Target entity description: The Glass Key is a 1942 American film noir crime drama starring Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd, adapted from Dashiell Hammett’s novel of the same name.
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A.
The Glass Key (novel)
The Glass Key (novel) is a 1931 hardboiled crime novel by Dashiell Hammett that follows fixer Ned Beaumont as he navigates political corruption, betrayal, and murder in an unnamed American city.
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B.
The Lady in the Lake
The Lady in the Lake is a 1943 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe as he unravels a complex mystery surrounding a missing woman and a body found in a remote lake.
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C.
Guilty by Suspicion
Guilty by Suspicion is a 1991 drama film about a Hollywood director facing the anti-communist blacklist era in 1950s America.
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D.
The Adventures of Sam Spade
The Adventures of Sam Spade is a classic American radio drama series from the 1940s that follows hard-boiled private detective Sam Spade through witty, fast-paced crime and mystery cases.
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E.
The Glass Key (1935 film)
The Glass Key (1935 film) is an American crime drama based on Dashiell Hammett’s novel, featuring political corruption and underworld intrigue.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| author | Dashiell Hammett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Glass Key (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Theodor Sparkuhl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| director | Stuart Heisler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Archie Marshek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresOnscreenPartnership | Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
film noir ⓘ |
| hasSetting | unnamed American city ⓘ |
| isAdaptationOf | The Glass Key (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Ed Beaumont
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Janet Henry NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Madvig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Victor Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
loyalty and betrayal
ⓘ
organized crime ⓘ political corruption ⓘ |
| notableFor |
adaptation of Dashiell Hammett hardboiled fiction
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
pairing of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake ⓘ |
| originalNetworkOrMedium | theatrical film ⓘ |
| partOf | classic Hollywood film noir canon ⓘ |
| precededBy | The Glass Key (1935 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Buddy G. DeSylva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1942 ⓘ |
| releaseFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 85 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Jonathan Latimer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | contemporary to early 1940s ⓘ |
| starring |
Alan Ladd
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bonita Granville NERFINISHED ⓘ Brian Donlevy NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Calleia NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Denning NERFINISHED ⓘ Veronica Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ William Bendix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Glass Key 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: The Glass Key Description of subject: The Glass Key is a 1942 American film noir crime drama starring Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd, adapted from Dashiell Hammett’s novel of the same name.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Veronica Lake