Yesterday's Enemy
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"Yesterday's Enemy" is a 1959 British war film, based on a television play, that follows a morally complex British Army officer in the Burma campaign during World War II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yesterday's Enemy canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9483061 — 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: Yesterday's Enemy Context triple: [Stanley Baker, notableWork, Yesterday's Enemy]
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A.
The Enemy
The Enemy is a thriller novel by Lee Child featuring his iconic protagonist Jack Reacher in a prequel story set during his time as a U.S. Army military police officer.
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B.
Dearest Enemy
Dearest Enemy is a 1925 Broadway musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, set during the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
the Enemy
The Enemy is a biblical and theological title for the Devil, representing the ultimate adversary of God and humanity in Christian belief.
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D.
Dating the Enemy
Dating the Enemy is a 1996 Australian romantic comedy film in which a feuding couple mysteriously swap bodies and are forced to live each other’s lives.
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E.
Eternal Enemies
"Eternal Enemies" is a poetry collection by Polish poet Adam Zagajewski that reflects on history, memory, and the moral complexities of modern 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: Yesterday's Enemy Target entity description: "Yesterday's Enemy" is a 1959 British war film, based on a television play, that follows a morally complex British Army officer in the Burma campaign during World War II.
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A.
The Enemy
The Enemy is a thriller novel by Lee Child featuring his iconic protagonist Jack Reacher in a prequel story set during his time as a U.S. Army military police officer.
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B.
Dearest Enemy
Dearest Enemy is a 1925 Broadway musical comedy with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, set during the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
the Enemy
The Enemy is a biblical and theological title for the Devil, representing the ultimate adversary of God and humanity in Christian belief.
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D.
Dating the Enemy
Dating the Enemy is a 1996 Australian romantic comedy film in which a feuding couple mysteriously swap bodies and are forced to live each other’s lives.
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E.
Eternal Enemies
"Eternal Enemies" is a poetry collection by Polish poet Adam Zagajewski that reflects on history, memory, and the moral complexities of modern life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British war film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Yesterday's Enemy (television play) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Peter R. Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
David Lodge
NERFINISHED
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David Oxley NERFINISHED ⓘ Gordon Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ Guy Rolfe NERFINISHED ⓘ Leo McKern NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip Ahn NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Pasco NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanley Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ Wolfe Morris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| certificateUK | X ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Arthur Grant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Val Guest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| discussesTheme |
military ethics
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moral ambiguity in war ⓘ war crimes ⓘ |
| distributor | Columbia Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | James Needs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Bray Studios
NERFINISHED
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Surrey heathland (exterior stand-in for Burma) ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
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war film ⓘ |
| leadActor | Stanley Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Captain Langford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | British Army officer ⓘ |
| medium | cinema ⓘ |
| musicBy | Stanley Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | British Army patrol behind Japanese lines ⓘ |
| notableFor | unusually bleak depiction of British conduct in war for its time ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays |
British Army in Burma
NERFINISHED
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Imperial Japanese Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Michael Carreras NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Hammer Film Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1959-09-14 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1959 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 95 ⓘ |
| screenplayAdaptationOf | BBC television play ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Peter R. Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingEvent | Burma campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPlace | Burma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subgenre | World War II film ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Yesterday's Enemy Description of subject: "Yesterday's Enemy" is a 1959 British war film, based on a television play, that follows a morally complex British Army officer in the Burma campaign during World War II.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.