True Confession
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True Confession is a 1937 screwball comedy film starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray, centered on a woman whose compulsive lying leads to a chaotic murder trial.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| True Confession canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9088122 — 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: True Confession Context triple: [Fred MacMurray, notableWork, True Confession]
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A.
True Confessions
True Confessions is a 1981 crime drama film starring Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall, loosely inspired by the Black Dahlia murder case.
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B.
Confession
"Confession" is a lesser-known film featuring Sydney Chaplin, the son of legendary comedian Charlie Chaplin.
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C.
Careful Confessions
Careful Confessions is the independently released early album by singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles that helped launch her recording career.
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D.
I Confess
I Confess is a 1953 film noir thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, centered on a Catholic priest bound by the secrecy of confession after learning of a murder.
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E.
A Confession
A Confession is a philosophical and spiritual autobiographical work by Leo Tolstoy in which he recounts his existential crisis and search for the meaning of life.
- 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: True Confession Target entity description: True Confession is a 1937 screwball comedy film starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray, centered on a woman whose compulsive lying leads to a chaotic murder trial.
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A.
True Confessions
True Confessions is a 1981 crime drama film starring Robert De Niro and Robert Duvall, loosely inspired by the Black Dahlia murder case.
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B.
Confession
"Confession" is a lesser-known film featuring Sydney Chaplin, the son of legendary comedian Charlie Chaplin.
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C.
Careful Confessions
Careful Confessions is the independently released early album by singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles that helped launch her recording career.
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D.
I Confess
I Confess is a 1953 film noir thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, centered on a Catholic priest bound by the secrecy of confession after learning of a murder.
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E.
A Confession
A Confession is a philosophical and spiritual autobiographical work by Leo Tolstoy in which he recounts his existential crisis and search for the meaning of life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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screwball comedy film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Mon Crime
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
play by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil ⓘ |
| characterIn |
Charley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Emmett NERFINISHED ⓘ Helen Bartlett NERFINISHED ⓘ Kenneth Bartlett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Ted Tetzlaff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Wesley Ruggles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Chandler House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresTheme |
ethics in law
ⓘ
truth and deception ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
screwball comedy ⓘ |
| hasColor | black-and-white ⓘ |
| hasGenre | romantic comedy ⓘ |
| hasPlotElement |
compulsive lying
ⓘ
legal comedy ⓘ murder trial ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
criminal trial
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lying ⓘ marriage ⓘ |
| musicBy | Boris Morros NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Carole Lombard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | American screwball comedies of the 1930s ⓘ |
| producer | Albert Lewin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1937 ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1937-10-22 (approximate U.S. release) ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1937 ⓘ |
| runtime | 85 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Claude Binyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
| starring |
Carole Lombard
NERFINISHED
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Fred MacMurray NERFINISHED ⓘ John Barrymore NERFINISHED ⓘ Lynne Overman NERFINISHED ⓘ Porter Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ Una Merkel 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: True Confession Description of subject: True Confession is a 1937 screwball comedy film starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray, centered on a woman whose compulsive lying leads to a chaotic murder trial.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.