Penthouse (1933 film)
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Penthouse (1933 film) is a pre-Code crime drama notable as an early starring vehicle for Myrna Loy, blending romance and mystery in a story about a lawyer defending a woman accused of murder.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Penthouse (1933 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7656814 — 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)
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Target entity: Penthouse (1933 film) Context triple: [Myrna Loy, notableWork, Penthouse (1933 film)]
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Penthouse Floor
"Penthouse Floor" is a socially conscious R&B track by John Legend featuring Chance the Rapper that critiques wealth, privilege, and social inequality.
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B.
The Lodger (1932)
The Lodger (1932) is a British thriller film adaptation of Marie Belloc Lowndes' novel about a mysterious tenant suspected of being a serial killer, directed by Maurice Elvey.
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C.
Ecstasy (1933 film)
Ecstasy (1933 film) is a Czech romantic drama best known for its controversial nude scenes and for featuring an early starring role by actress Hedy Lamarr.
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D.
The Divorcee (1930)
The Divorcee (1930) is a pre-Code American drama film, produced at MGM, that became notable for its frank treatment of marriage and infidelity and earned Norma Shearer an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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E.
International House (1933 film)
International House (1933 film) is a 1933 pre-Code comedy film best known for its ensemble cast of popular radio and vaudeville stars, including Gracie Allen, W.C. Fields, and Burns and Allen, set in a chaotic Chinese hotel during a bidding war over a revolutionary invention.
- 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: Penthouse (1933 film) Target entity description: Penthouse (1933 film) is a pre-Code crime drama notable as an early starring vehicle for Myrna Loy, blending romance and mystery in a story about a lawyer defending a woman accused of murder.
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A.
Penthouse Floor
"Penthouse Floor" is a socially conscious R&B track by John Legend featuring Chance the Rapper that critiques wealth, privilege, and social inequality.
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B.
The Lodger (1932)
The Lodger (1932) is a British thriller film adaptation of Marie Belloc Lowndes' novel about a mysterious tenant suspected of being a serial killer, directed by Maurice Elvey.
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C.
Ecstasy (1933 film)
Ecstasy (1933 film) is a Czech romantic drama best known for its controversial nude scenes and for featuring an early starring role by actress Hedy Lamarr.
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D.
The Divorcee (1930)
The Divorcee (1930) is a pre-Code American drama film, produced at MGM, that became notable for its frank treatment of marriage and infidelity and earned Norma Shearer an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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E.
International House (1933 film)
International House (1933 film) is a 1933 pre-Code comedy film best known for its ensemble cast of popular radio and vaudeville stars, including Gracie Allen, W.C. Fields, and Burns and Allen, set in a chaotic Chinese hotel during a bidding war over a revolutionary invention.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | story by Arthur Somers Roche ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | James Wong Howe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | W. S. Van Dyke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| editedBy | Ben Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterOccupation | lawyer ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ romantic drama film ⓘ |
| hasSetting | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
organized crime
ⓘ
romantic involvement with underworld figures ⓘ |
| includesElement |
mystery
ⓘ
romance ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| leadActor | Warner Baxter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadActress | Myrna Loy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motionPictureRatingEra | pre-Code Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | William Axt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | lawyer defending woman accused of murder ⓘ |
| notableFor | early starring vehicle for Myrna Loy ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | American pre-Code cinema ⓘ |
| producer | Lucien Hubbard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1933 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 90 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Albert Hackett
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frances Goodrich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | contemporary 1930s ⓘ |
| starring |
C. Henry Gordon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charles Butterworth NERFINISHED ⓘ Mae Clarke NERFINISHED ⓘ Martha Sleeper NERFINISHED ⓘ Myrna Loy NERFINISHED ⓘ Phillips Holmes NERFINISHED ⓘ Warner Baxter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Penthouse (1933 film) Description of subject: Penthouse (1933 film) is a pre-Code crime drama notable as an early starring vehicle for Myrna Loy, blending romance and mystery in a story about a lawyer defending a woman accused of murder.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.