The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film) is an Alfred Hitchcock suspense thriller starring James Stewart and Doris Day about an American family caught in an international assassination plot after their child is kidnapped.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film) canonical | 3 |
| The Man Who Knew Too Much | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10089025 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film) Context triple: [Arthur Benjamin, usedIn, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film)]
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) is an early British suspense thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, centered on an ordinary couple who accidentally uncover an assassination plot while on holiday.
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To Catch a Thief
To Catch a Thief is a 1955 romantic thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant as a retired cat burglar suspected of returning to his old ways on the French Riviera.
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C.
North by Northwest
North by Northwest is a classic 1959 Alfred Hitchcock thriller film known for its suspenseful mistaken-identity plot and iconic set pieces, including the crop-duster attack and Mount Rushmore climax.
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D.
The 39 Steps (1959 film)
The 39 Steps (1959 film) is a British thriller adaptation of John Buchan’s novel and Alfred Hitchcock’s earlier film, following an innocent man entangled in a spy conspiracy while on the run across the UK.
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E.
The Ipcress File
The Ipcress File is a 1965 British Cold War spy film, based on Len Deighton’s novel, that stars Michael Caine as the bespectacled intelligence agent Harry Palmer.
- 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 Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film) Target entity description: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film) is an Alfred Hitchcock suspense thriller starring James Stewart and Doris Day about an American family caught in an international assassination plot after their child is kidnapped.
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A.
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) is an early British suspense thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, centered on an ordinary couple who accidentally uncover an assassination plot while on holiday.
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B.
To Catch a Thief
To Catch a Thief is a 1955 romantic thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant as a retired cat burglar suspected of returning to his old ways on the French Riviera.
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C.
North by Northwest
North by Northwest is a classic 1959 Alfred Hitchcock thriller film known for its suspenseful mistaken-identity plot and iconic set pieces, including the crop-duster attack and Mount Rushmore climax.
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D.
The 39 Steps (1959 film)
The 39 Steps (1959 film) is a British thriller adaptation of John Buchan’s novel and Alfred Hitchcock’s earlier film, following an innocent man entangled in a spy conspiracy while on the run across the UK.
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E.
The Ipcress File
The Ipcress File is a 1965 British Cold War spy film, based on Len Deighton’s novel, that stars Michael Caine as the bespectacled intelligence agent Harry Palmer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| aspectOf | Cold War cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
Bernard Miles
NERFINISHED
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Brenda de Banzie NERFINISHED ⓘ Christopher Olsen NERFINISHED ⓘ Daniel Gélin NERFINISHED ⓘ Doris Day NERFINISHED ⓘ James Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ Ralph Truman NERFINISHED ⓘ Reggie Nalder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Robert Burks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Technicolor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Alfred Hitchcock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | George Tomasini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Ambrose Chappell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dr. Benjamin McKenna NERFINISHED ⓘ Hank McKenna NERFINISHED ⓘ Inspector Buchanan NERFINISHED ⓘ Jo McKenna NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis Bernard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresEvent | assassination attempt at the Royal Albert Hall ⓘ |
| featuresSong | Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
Marrakesh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
mystery film
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suspense film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Bernard Herrmann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Que Sera, Sera"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
remake of Hitchcock's own 1934 film of the same name ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | filmography of Alfred Hitchcock ⓘ |
| plotSummary | An American family on vacation becomes entangled in an international assassination plot after their child is kidnapped. ⓘ |
| producer | Alfred Hitchcock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1956 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | John Michael Hayes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
Morocco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| songPerformedBy | Doris Day NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Doris Day
NERFINISHED
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James Stewart 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: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film) Description of subject: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film) is an Alfred Hitchcock suspense thriller starring James Stewart and Doris Day about an American family caught in an international assassination plot after their child is kidnapped.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Storm Clouds Cantata
this entity surface form:
The Man Who Knew Too Much
this entity surface form:
The Man Who Knew Too Much