Puppet on a Chain (1971 film)
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Puppet on a Chain (1971 film) is a 1971 British thriller movie set in Amsterdam, adapted from Alistair MacLean’s novel about a narcotics agent battling a heroin-smuggling ring.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Puppet on a Chain (1971 film) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10808550 — 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: Puppet on a Chain (1971 film) Context triple: [Alistair MacLean, workAdaptedTo, Puppet on a Chain (1971 film)]
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A.
Puppet Master
Puppet Master is a cult horror film series centered on living, murderous puppets animated by an ancient secret formula.
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B.
The Woman and the Puppet
The Woman and the Puppet is a 1898 novel by Pierre Louÿs that tells a provocative tale of obsessive desire and manipulation between a Spanish woman and the man infatuated with her.
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C.
Porky's
Porky's is a 1981 Canadian-American teen sex comedy film known for its raunchy humor and depiction of high school misadventures in 1950s Florida.
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D.
Puppet
Puppet is an open-source configuration management and automation tool used to define, deploy, and manage infrastructure as code across large-scale IT environments.
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E.
Attack of the Puppet People
Attack of the Puppet People is a 1958 American science fiction horror film about a deranged doll-maker who shrinks people to miniature size and keeps them as living dolls.
- 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: Puppet on a Chain (1971 film) Target entity description: Puppet on a Chain (1971 film) is a 1971 British thriller movie set in Amsterdam, adapted from Alistair MacLean’s novel about a narcotics agent battling a heroin-smuggling ring.
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A.
Puppet Master
Puppet Master is a cult horror film series centered on living, murderous puppets animated by an ancient secret formula.
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B.
The Woman and the Puppet
The Woman and the Puppet is a 1898 novel by Pierre Louÿs that tells a provocative tale of obsessive desire and manipulation between a Spanish woman and the man infatuated with her.
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C.
Porky's
Porky's is a 1981 Canadian-American teen sex comedy film known for its raunchy humor and depiction of high school misadventures in 1950s Florida.
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D.
Puppet
Puppet is an open-source configuration management and automation tool used to define, deploy, and manage infrastructure as code across large-scale IT environments.
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E.
Attack of the Puppet People
Attack of the Puppet People is a 1958 American science fiction horror film about a deranged doll-maker who shrinks people to miniature size and keeps them as living dolls.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationType | novel-to-film adaptation ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Alistair MacLean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Puppet on a Chain (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed | Paul Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Jack Hildyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coDirector | Don Sharp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | color ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Geoffrey Reeve NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Cinerama Releasing Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | John Glen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Amsterdam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | thriller ⓘ |
| hasSourceAuthorRole | Alistair MacLean as screenwriter ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Paul Sherman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Piero Piccioni NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
drug trafficking
ⓘ
undercover investigation ⓘ |
| notableSequence | speedboat chase through Amsterdam canals ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOfFilmEra | 1970s British cinema ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A narcotics agent battles a heroin-smuggling ring in Amsterdam. ⓘ |
| producer | Geoffrey Reeve NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Geoffrey Reeve Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | narcotics agent ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfSourceWork | 1969 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1971 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 99 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Alistair MacLean
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paul Wheeler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInCountry | Netherlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInLocation | Amsterdam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceWorkGenre | spy novel ⓘ |
| starredActor |
Alexander Knox
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Anouska Hempel NERFINISHED ⓘ Barbara Parkins NERFINISHED ⓘ Guy Deghy NERFINISHED ⓘ Patrick Allen NERFINISHED ⓘ Sven-Bertil Taube NERFINISHED ⓘ Vladek Sheybal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfSetting | contemporary to early 1970s ⓘ |
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: Puppet on a Chain (1971 film) Description of subject: Puppet on a Chain (1971 film) is a 1971 British thriller movie set in Amsterdam, adapted from Alistair MacLean’s novel about a narcotics agent battling a heroin-smuggling ring.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.