The Vigilante
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The Vigilante is a 1947 American crime film noir in which Grant Withers appears, centered on a masked crime-fighter battling underworld corruption.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Vigilante canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9205327 — 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 Vigilante Context triple: [Grant Withers, notableWork, The Vigilante]
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A.
The Enforcer
The Enforcer is a 1976 American crime thriller film in the Dirty Harry series, starring Clint Eastwood as Inspector Harry Callahan.
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B.
The Enforcer
The Enforcer was the hard-nosed, physically imposing power forward Maurice Lucas, renowned for his toughness and intimidating presence in the NBA during the 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
The Enforcer
The Enforcer is the nickname of Frank Nitti, a notorious Chicago mobster who became a leading figure in Al Capone’s crime organization.
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D.
Man Against Crime
Man Against Crime is an American crime drama television series best known for starring Ralph Bellamy as a private detective.
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E.
Vigilantia
Vigilantia was the mother of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (born Petrus Sabbatius) and a member of a modest Illyrian family who rose to imperial prominence.
- 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 Vigilante Target entity description: The Vigilante is a 1947 American crime film noir in which Grant Withers appears, centered on a masked crime-fighter battling underworld corruption.
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A.
The Enforcer
The Enforcer is a 1976 American crime thriller film in the Dirty Harry series, starring Clint Eastwood as Inspector Harry Callahan.
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B.
The Enforcer
The Enforcer is the nickname of Frank Nitti, a notorious Chicago mobster who became a leading figure in Al Capone’s crime organization.
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C.
The Enforcer
The Enforcer was the hard-nosed, physically imposing power forward Maurice Lucas, renowned for his toughness and intimidating presence in the NBA during the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Man Against Crime
Man Against Crime is an American crime drama television series best known for starring Ralph Bellamy as a private detective.
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E.
Vigilantia
Vigilantia was the mother of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (born Petrus Sabbatius) and a member of a modest Illyrian family who rose to imperial prominence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
DC Comics character Vigilante
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vigilante (Greg Sanders) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Wallace Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| follows | masked crime-fighter battling underworld corruption ⓘ |
| format | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
ⓘ
film noir ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
George Offerman Jr.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Grant Withers NERFINISHED ⓘ Lyle Talbot NERFINISHED ⓘ Ralph Byrd NERFINISHED ⓘ Ramsay Ames NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacter | Greg Sanders / The Vigilante NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMainCharacter | masked crime-fighter ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical film ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | criminal underworld ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Columbia Pictures film serials NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Sam Katzman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1947 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Arthur Hoerl
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
George H. Plympton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Vigilante 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 Vigilante Description of subject: The Vigilante is a 1947 American crime film noir in which Grant Withers appears, centered on a masked crime-fighter battling underworld corruption.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.