The Kissing Bandit (1948 film)
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The Kissing Bandit (1948 film) is a 1948 MGM musical comedy set in Spanish California, starring Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson in a lighthearted tale of mistaken identity and romance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Kissing Bandit (1948 film) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8653199 — 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 Kissing Bandit (1948 film) Context triple: [Jules Munshin, notableWork, The Kissing Bandit (1948 film)]
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A.
The Heart Bandit (1924 film)
The Heart Bandit (1924 film) is a 1924 American silent drama film best known for starring actress Agnes Ayres.
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B.
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948 film)
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands is a 1948 film noir crime drama starring Burt Lancaster and Joan Fontaine, known for its dark postwar London setting and themes of desperation and redemption.
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C.
T-Men
T-Men is a 1947 film noir crime drama directed by Anthony Mann, renowned for its gritty semi-documentary style and stark, expressionistic cinematography.
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D.
Kissin’ Cousins (1964 film)
Kissin’ Cousins is a 1964 musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley as both an Army officer and his backwoods cousin in a lighthearted story set in the Tennessee mountains.
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E.
The Killers (1946 film)
The Killers (1946 film) is a classic American film noir, based on an Ernest Hemingway short story, renowned for its dark, fatalistic crime narrative and for launching Burt Lancaster’s film career.
- 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 Kissing Bandit (1948 film) Target entity description: The Kissing Bandit (1948 film) is a 1948 MGM musical comedy set in Spanish California, starring Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson in a lighthearted tale of mistaken identity and romance.
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A.
The Heart Bandit (1924 film)
The Heart Bandit (1924 film) is a 1924 American silent drama film best known for starring actress Agnes Ayres.
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B.
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948 film)
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands is a 1948 film noir crime drama starring Burt Lancaster and Joan Fontaine, known for its dark postwar London setting and themes of desperation and redemption.
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C.
T-Men
T-Men is a 1947 film noir crime drama directed by Anthony Mann, renowned for its gritty semi-documentary style and stark, expressionistic cinematography.
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D.
Kissin’ Cousins (1964 film)
Kissin’ Cousins is a 1964 musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley as both an Army officer and his backwoods cousin in a lighthearted story set in the Tennessee mountains.
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E.
The Killers (1946 film)
The Killers (1946 film) is a classic American film noir, based on an Ernest Hemingway short story, renowned for its dark, fatalistic crime narrative and for launching Burt Lancaster’s film career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Technicolor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | László Benedek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| era |
Hollywood Golden Age
ⓘ
surface form:
Golden Age of Hollywood
|
| featuresCharacterType |
bandit
ⓘ
romantic lead ⓘ |
| filmStudio | MGM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
musical film ⓘ |
| hasFormat | feature film ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | Hollywood studio musical ⓘ |
| leadActor |
Frank Sinatra
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kathryn Grayson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | cinema ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
mistaken identity
ⓘ
romance ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Joe Pasternak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1948 ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Spanish California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Akim Tamiroff
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ann Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ Cyd Charisse NERFINISHED ⓘ Frank Sinatra NERFINISHED ⓘ J. Carrol Naish NERFINISHED ⓘ Kathryn Grayson NERFINISHED ⓘ Mildred Natwick NERFINISHED ⓘ Ricardo Montalbán NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | 19th century ⓘ |
| title | The Kissing Bandit 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: The Kissing Bandit (1948 film) Description of subject: The Kissing Bandit (1948 film) is a 1948 MGM musical comedy set in Spanish California, starring Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson in a lighthearted tale of mistaken identity and romance.
Referenced by (2)
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