The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film)
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film) is a classic black-and-white mystery movie featuring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes in one of his most iconic screen portrayals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T803825 — 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 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film) Context triple: [Basil Rathbone, notableWork, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film)]
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A.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film) is a classic mystery movie adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story, widely known for starring Basil Rathbone in one of his most iconic portrayals of the famous detective.
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B.
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
"Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" is a 1943 mystery film in the long-running Sherlock Holmes series, starring Basil Rathbone as the famed detective in a World War II–era espionage story loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s "The Adventure of the Dancing Men."
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C.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is a 2011 action-mystery film directed by Guy Ritchie, serving as the sequel to the 2009 Sherlock Holmes movie and following the famed detective’s battle against his arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty.
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D.
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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E.
The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps is a classic 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, renowned for its blend of suspense, humor, and the “wrong man” chase narrative that became a hallmark of his style.
- 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 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film) Target entity description: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film) is a classic black-and-white mystery movie featuring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes in one of his most iconic screen portrayals.
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A.
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939 film) is a classic mystery movie adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story, widely known for starring Basil Rathbone in one of his most iconic portrayals of the famous detective.
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B.
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
"Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" is a 1943 mystery film in the long-running Sherlock Holmes series, starring Basil Rathbone as the famed detective in a World War II–era espionage story loosely based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s "The Adventure of the Dancing Men."
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C.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is a 2011 action-mystery film directed by Guy Ritchie, serving as the sequel to the 2009 Sherlock Holmes movie and following the famed detective’s battle against his arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty.
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D.
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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E.
The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps is a classic 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, renowned for its blend of suspense, humor, and the “wrong man” chase narrative that became a hallmark of his style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film) Description of subject: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film) is a classic black-and-white mystery movie featuring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes in one of his most iconic screen portrayals.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Philip St. John Basil Rathbone