This Man Is News
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This Man Is News is a 1938 British comedy-mystery film centered on a newspaper reporter who becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| This Man Is News canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9078555 — 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: This Man Is News Context triple: [Valerie Hobson, notableWork, This Man Is News]
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A.
Man Named Truth
"Man Named Truth" is a song featured on the album "Outer South," known for its introspective lyrics and indie rock/folk-influenced sound.
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B.
Nothing’s News
"Nothing’s News" is a song by American country artist Clint Black from his debut album "Killin' Time."
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C.
One Man Guy
"One Man Guy" is a folk song written and originally performed by American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, later popularized by his son Rufus Wainwright.
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D.
The Great News
The Great News is the English rendering of the Arabic title "An-Naba," referring to the 78th chapter of the Qur'an, which discusses the Day of Resurrection and ultimate divine judgment.
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E.
Here's the Man!!!
"Here's the Man!!!" is a 1962 blues and soul album by Bobby "Blue" Bland that showcases his powerful vocals and helped cement his status as a leading figure in modern blues.
- 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: This Man Is News Target entity description: This Man Is News is a 1938 British comedy-mystery film centered on a newspaper reporter who becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
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A.
Man Named Truth
"Man Named Truth" is a song featured on the album "Outer South," known for its introspective lyrics and indie rock/folk-influenced sound.
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B.
Nothing’s News
"Nothing’s News" is a song by American country artist Clint Black from his debut album "Killin' Time."
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C.
One Man Guy
"One Man Guy" is a folk song written and originally performed by American singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, later popularized by his son Rufus Wainwright.
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D.
The Great News
The Great News is the English rendering of the Arabic title "An-Naba," referring to the 78th chapter of the Qur'an, which discusses the Day of Resurrection and ultimate divine judgment.
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E.
Here's the Man!!!
"Here's the Man!!!" is a 1962 blues and soul album by Bobby "Blue" Bland that showcases his powerful vocals and helped cement his status as a leading figure in modern blues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy-mystery film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | story by Val Valentine ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| character |
Macgregor
NERFINISHED
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Pat Drake NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon Drake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Francis Carver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | David MacDonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Associated British Film Distributors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Lyman H. Hallowes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Pinewood Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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crime comedy ⓘ mystery film ⓘ |
| hasSequel | This Man in Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitle | This Man Is News NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | newspaper reporter ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Kenneth Leslie-Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | mixing screwball comedy with murder mystery elements ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A newspaper reporter becomes entangled in a murder investigation. ⓘ |
| producer | Anthony Havelock-Allan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
British National Films
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pinebrook Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1938-10-01 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1938 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 78 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Bernard Merivale
NERFINISHED
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Val Valentine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sequelReleaseYear | 1939 ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | contemporary 1930s Britain ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Alastair Sim
NERFINISHED
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Barry K. Barnes NERFINISHED ⓘ Edward Lexy NERFINISHED ⓘ Garry Marsh NERFINISHED ⓘ Valerie Hobson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: This Man Is News Description of subject: This Man Is News is a 1938 British comedy-mystery film centered on a newspaper reporter who becomes entangled in a murder investigation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.