The Thirteenth Chair
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The Thirteenth Chair is a 1937 mystery film adaptation of a stage play, known for its blend of murder investigation and spiritualist séance elements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Thirteenth Chair canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10090804 — 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 Thirteenth Chair Context triple: [Tala Birell, notableWork, The Thirteenth Chair]
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A.
The Chair
The Chair is one of the most famous and challenging fences in the Grand National steeplechase at Aintree Racecourse, known for its size and difficulty.
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B.
The Chair
The Chair is a television series best known as a satirical drama about the challenges facing the first woman of color to chair a struggling university English department.
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C.
The Chair
"The Chair" is a classic 1985 country ballad by George Strait, known for its clever conversational lyrics and status as one of his signature hits.
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D.
The Red Armchair
The Red Armchair is a famous 1932 portrait by Pablo Picasso depicting his lover and muse Marie-Thérèse Walter in his distinctive Cubist style.
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E.
Third Chamber
The Third Chamber is one of the specialized judicial divisions of the Court of Cassation of Belgium, responsible for handling a specific subset of high-level appellate cases within the country’s supreme court system.
- 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 Thirteenth Chair Target entity description: The Thirteenth Chair is a 1937 mystery film adaptation of a stage play, known for its blend of murder investigation and spiritualist séance elements.
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A.
The Chair
The Chair is a television series best known as a satirical drama about the challenges facing the first woman of color to chair a struggling university English department.
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B.
The Chair
The Chair is one of the most famous and challenging fences in the Grand National steeplechase at Aintree Racecourse, known for its size and difficulty.
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C.
The Chair
"The Chair" is a classic 1985 country ballad by George Strait, known for its clever conversational lyrics and status as one of his signature hits.
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D.
The Red Armchair
The Red Armchair is a famous 1932 portrait by Pablo Picasso depicting his lover and muse Marie-Thérèse Walter in his distinctive Cubist style.
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E.
Third Chamber
The Third Chamber is one of the specialized judicial divisions of the Court of Cassation of Belgium, responsible for handling a specific subset of high-level appellate cases within the country’s supreme court system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Thirteenth Chair (play)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
stage play ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Charles G. Clarke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | George B. Seitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | The Thirteenth Chair (1929 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
ⓘ
mystery film ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Arthur Wontner
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charles Trowbridge NERFINISHED ⓘ Claude King NERFINISHED ⓘ Dame May Whitty NERFINISHED ⓘ E.E. Clive NERFINISHED ⓘ Edward Brophy NERFINISHED ⓘ Elissa Landi NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Cording NERFINISHED ⓘ Helene Millard NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Daniell NERFINISHED ⓘ Lewis Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ Lumsden Hare NERFINISHED ⓘ Madge Evans NERFINISHED ⓘ Marie Burke NERFINISHED ⓘ May Beatty NERFINISHED ⓘ Murray Kinnell NERFINISHED ⓘ Peggy Shannon NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Coote NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
detective work
ⓘ
murder mystery ⓘ spiritualism ⓘ |
| isAdaptationOf | The Thirteenth Chair (1929 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
murder investigation
ⓘ
spiritualist séance ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | American mystery cinema of the 1930s ⓘ |
| producer | Lucien Hubbard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1937 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 69 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Bernard Schubert
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frances Hyland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | British India 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 Thirteenth Chair Description of subject: The Thirteenth Chair is a 1937 mystery film adaptation of a stage play, known for its blend of murder investigation and spiritualist séance elements.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.