Mister 880
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Mister 880 is a 1950 American comedy-drama film about an elderly, small-time counterfeiter whose charming personality confounds the authorities trying to catch him.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mister 880 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9250816 — 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: Mister 880 Context triple: [Edmund Goulding, directed, Mister 880]
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A.
The Mister
The Mister is a contemporary romance novel by E. L. James, known for its Cinderella-style love story and for being her follow-up to the Fifty Shades series.
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B.
Mister
Mister is a central male character in Alice Walker's novel "The Color Purple," known for his initially abusive relationship with the protagonist Celie and his later transformation.
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C.
Mr. Man
"Mr. Man" is a song by Alicia Keys from her debut studio album "Songs in A Minor."
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D.
Studio 880
Studio 880 is a professional recording studio known for hosting sessions by various rock and alternative artists, including the band Green Day.
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E.
Mr. G
Mr. G is the nickname of Gustaf V, who was King of Sweden from 1907 to 1950 and one of the longest-reigning Swedish monarchs.
- 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: Mister 880 Target entity description: Mister 880 is a 1950 American comedy-drama film about an elderly, small-time counterfeiter whose charming personality confounds the authorities trying to catch him.
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A.
The Mister
The Mister is a contemporary romance novel by E. L. James, known for its Cinderella-style love story and for being her follow-up to the Fifty Shades series.
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B.
Mister
Mister is a central male character in Alice Walker's novel "The Color Purple," known for his initially abusive relationship with the protagonist Celie and his later transformation.
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C.
Mr. Man
"Mr. Man" is a song by Alicia Keys from her debut studio album "Songs in A Minor."
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D.
Studio 880
Studio 880 is a professional recording studio known for hosting sessions by various rock and alternative artists, including the band Green Day.
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E.
Mr. G
Mr. G is the nickname of Gustaf V, who was King of Sweden from 1907 to 1950 and one of the longest-reigning Swedish monarchs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| awardNominee | Edmund Gwenn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | “Mister 880” (article) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | St. Clair McKelway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Leo Tover NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| countryOfSetting | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Edmund Goulding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributionFormat | theatrical release ⓘ |
| distributor |
20th Century Fox
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Twentieth Century-Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | William H. Reynolds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingProcess | black-and-white ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy-drama
ⓘ
crime film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
aging
ⓘ
crime and morality ⓘ law enforcement vs. criminal ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Mister 880 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Ann Winslow
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Skipper Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ “Mister 880” (elderly counterfeiter) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical film ⓘ |
| motionPictureRating | Approved (Production Code era) ⓘ |
| musicBy | Leigh Harline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
U.S. Secret Service investigation
ⓘ
small-time counterfeiting ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blend of comedy and drama in a crime story
ⓘ
portrayal of a charming elderly counterfeiter ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | 1950s American cinema ⓘ |
| portrays | counterfeiting of U.S. currency ⓘ |
| producer | Fred Kohlmar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Twentieth Century-Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1950-10-16 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1950 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 89 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Robert Riskin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. Clair McKelway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| starring |
Burt Lancaster
NERFINISHED
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Dorothy McGuire NERFINISHED ⓘ Edmund Gwenn NERFINISHED ⓘ Howard St. John NERFINISHED ⓘ Millard Mitchell 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: Mister 880 Description of subject: Mister 880 is a 1950 American comedy-drama film about an elderly, small-time counterfeiter whose charming personality confounds the authorities trying to catch him.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.