The Ghost of St. Michael's
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"The Ghost of St. Michael's" is a 1941 British comedy film set in a Scottish boarding school, starring Will Hay in a wartime spy and sabotage caper.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Ghost of St. Michael's canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8659262 — 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 Ghost of St. Michael's Context triple: [Stanley Holloway, notableWork, The Ghost of St. Michael's]
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A.
Mickelsson’s Ghosts
Mickelsson’s Ghosts is a complex, late novel by John Gardner that blends psychological realism with elements of the supernatural as it follows a troubled philosophy professor unraveling both personal and metaphysical mysteries.
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B.
The Ghost
The Ghost is the spectral apparition of Hamlet’s deceased father in Shakespeare’s tragedy, whose revelations set the play’s revenge plot in motion.
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C.
The Ghost
The Ghost is the stage name of Styles P, an American rapper known for his work with The LOX and D-Block Records.
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D.
The Ghost
"The Ghost" is a notable literary work by Georgian poet and national figure Akaki Tsereteli, reflecting his contribution to 19th-century Georgian literature.
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E.
The Story of the Ghost
The Story of the Ghost is a 1998 studio album by American jam band Phish, known for its groove-oriented, funk-influenced sound and improvisational style.
- 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 Ghost of St. Michael's Target entity description: "The Ghost of St. Michael's" is a 1941 British comedy film set in a Scottish boarding school, starring Will Hay in a wartime spy and sabotage caper.
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A.
Mickelsson’s Ghosts
Mickelsson’s Ghosts is a complex, late novel by John Gardner that blends psychological realism with elements of the supernatural as it follows a troubled philosophy professor unraveling both personal and metaphysical mysteries.
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B.
The Ghost
The Ghost is the spectral apparition of Hamlet’s deceased father in Shakespeare’s tragedy, whose revelations set the play’s revenge plot in motion.
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C.
The Ghost
The Ghost is the stage name of Styles P, an American rapper known for his work with The LOX and D-Block Records.
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D.
The Ghost
"The Ghost" is a notable literary work by Georgian poet and national figure Akaki Tsereteli, reflecting his contribution to 19th-century Georgian literature.
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E.
The Story of the Ghost
The Story of the Ghost is a 1998 studio album by American jam band Phish, known for its groove-oriented, funk-influenced sound and improvisational style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| castMember | Will Hay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Arthur Crabtree NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Marcel Varnel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | General Film Distributors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | R. E. Dearing NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | William Lamb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingStudio | Islington Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
war film ⓘ |
| hasSetting | Scottish boarding school ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
mistaken identity
ⓘ
school life ⓘ spy hunt ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
sabotage
ⓘ
wartime espionage ⓘ |
| musicBy | Louis Levy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | Isle of Skye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Gainsborough Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 82 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
J. O. C. Orton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marcel Varnel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starredActor | Will Hay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Second World War 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 Ghost of St. Michael's Description of subject: "The Ghost of St. Michael's" is a 1941 British comedy film set in a Scottish boarding school, starring Will Hay in a wartime spy and sabotage caper.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.