The Detective
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The Detective is a 1968 American crime drama film, based on Roderick Thorp’s novel, that follows a New York City police detective investigating a complex murder case amid themes of corruption and social issues.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Detective canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11491895 — 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 Detective Context triple: [Lee Remick, notableWork, The Detective]
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A.
The Detective Agency
The Detective Agency is a film production company known for its involvement in major Hollywood projects such as the adventure comedy sequel "Jumanji: The Next Level."
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B.
The World's Greatest Detective
The World's Greatest Detective is a renowned epithet for Batman, highlighting his unparalleled investigative skills, deductive reasoning, and mastery of crime-solving in the DC Comics universe.
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C.
Detective Story
Detective Story is a 1951 American crime drama film, based on Sidney Kingsley’s play, that follows a rigid New York City detective whose moral absolutism is tested over the course of a single day in a busy precinct.
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D.
The Last Detective
The Last Detective is a British crime drama television series based on Leslie Thomas’s novels, following the understated and often underestimated Detective Constable "Dangerous" Davies as he solves cases in London.
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E.
The Cheap Detective
The Cheap Detective is a 1978 comedy film that parodies classic film noir and detective movies, starring Peter Falk as a bumbling private eye.
- 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 Detective Target entity description: The Detective is a 1968 American crime drama film, based on Roderick Thorp’s novel, that follows a New York City police detective investigating a complex murder case amid themes of corruption and social issues.
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A.
The Detective Agency
The Detective Agency is a film production company known for its involvement in major Hollywood projects such as the adventure comedy sequel "Jumanji: The Next Level."
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B.
The World's Greatest Detective
The World's Greatest Detective is a renowned epithet for Batman, highlighting his unparalleled investigative skills, deductive reasoning, and mastery of crime-solving in the DC Comics universe.
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C.
Detective Story
Detective Story is a 1951 American crime drama film, based on Sidney Kingsley’s play, that follows a rigid New York City detective whose moral absolutism is tested over the course of a single day in a busy precinct.
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D.
The Last Detective
The Last Detective is a British crime drama television series based on Leslie Thomas’s novels, following the understated and often underestimated Detective Constable "Dangerous" Davies as he solves cases in London.
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E.
The Cheap Detective
The Cheap Detective is a 1978 comedy film that parodies classic film noir and detective movies, starring Peter Falk as a bumbling private eye.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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crime drama film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| aspectOf | American neo-noir cinema of the 1960s ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Roderick Thorp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Detective (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character | Joe Leland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Joseph F. Biroc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | Color ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Gordon Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | 20th Century Fox ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | United States theatrical release ⓘ |
| editedBy | Henry Berman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
New Jersey
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ |
| filmRating | M (MPAA) ⓘ |
| followedBy | Nothing Lasts Forever (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime film
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drama film ⓘ |
| influenced | Die Hard (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
homosexuality
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mental illness ⓘ police corruption ⓘ political corruption ⓘ social issues ⓘ |
| medium | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Jerry Goldsmith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | early mainstream Hollywood depiction of homosexuality ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A New York City police detective investigates a complex murder case that exposes corruption and social issues. ⓘ |
| portraysCharacter | Frank Sinatra as Joe Leland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Aaron Rosenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Arcola Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1968-05-28 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 114 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Abby Mann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| starring |
Al Freeman Jr.
NERFINISHED
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Frank Sinatra NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Klugman NERFINISHED ⓘ Lee Remick NERFINISHED ⓘ Ralph Meeker NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Duvall NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Musante 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 Detective Description of subject: The Detective is a 1968 American crime drama film, based on Roderick Thorp’s novel, that follows a New York City police detective investigating a complex murder case amid themes of corruption and social issues.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.