The Devil by the Tail
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The Devil by the Tail is a 1969 French-Italian comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, co-written by Gérard Brach, about a struggling aristocratic family who turn their dilapidated château into a hotel and become entangled with gangsters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Devil by the Tail canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13127466 — 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 Devil by the Tail Context triple: [Gérard Brach, notableWork, The Devil by the Tail]
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A.
Touch the Devil
Touch the Devil is a Cold War-era thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring espionage, terrorism, and high-stakes covert operations.
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B.
My Brother the Devil
My Brother the Devil is a British coming-of-age crime drama film that follows two British-Egyptian brothers navigating gang culture, identity, and sexuality in East London.
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C.
Some Devil
Some Devil is Dave Matthews' debut solo studio album, showcasing a more introspective and stripped-down sound than his work with the Dave Matthews Band.
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D.
Rather Be the Devil
Rather Be the Devil is a crime novel in Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus series, featuring the retired detective drawn into a cold-case murder investigation.
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E.
Devil’s Spoke
"Devil’s Spoke" is a dark, folk-influenced song by British singer-songwriter Laura Marling from her album *I Speak Because I Can*.
- 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 Devil by the Tail Target entity description: The Devil by the Tail is a 1969 French-Italian comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, co-written by Gérard Brach, about a struggling aristocratic family who turn their dilapidated château into a hotel and become entangled with gangsters.
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A.
Touch the Devil
Touch the Devil is a Cold War-era thriller novel by Jack Higgins featuring espionage, terrorism, and high-stakes covert operations.
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B.
My Brother the Devil
My Brother the Devil is a British coming-of-age crime drama film that follows two British-Egyptian brothers navigating gang culture, identity, and sexuality in East London.
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C.
Some Devil
Some Devil is Dave Matthews' debut solo studio album, showcasing a more introspective and stripped-down sound than his work with the Dave Matthews Band.
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D.
Rather Be the Devil
Rather Be the Devil is a crime novel in Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus series, featuring the retired detective drawn into a cold-case murder investigation.
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E.
Devil’s Spoke
"Devil’s Spoke" is a dark, folk-influenced song by British singer-songwriter Laura Marling from her album *I Speak Because I Can*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French film
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Italian film ⓘ comedy film ⓘ film ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
France
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Italy ⓘ |
| coWriter |
Gérard Brach
ⓘ
Gérard Oury ⓘ |
| director | Gérard Oury ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
crime comedy film ⓘ |
| hasAristocracyTheme | true ⓘ |
| hasCrimeTheme | true ⓘ |
| hasDirectorNationality | French ⓘ |
| hasTitleLanguage | English ⓘ |
| narrativeElement | involvement with gangsters ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | aristocratic family in financial difficulty ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A struggling aristocratic family turns their dilapidated château into a hotel and becomes entangled with gangsters. ⓘ |
| productionEra | 1960s ⓘ |
| productionType | French-Italian co-production ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Gérard Brach
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Gérard Oury ⓘ |
| setting | dilapidated château ⓘ |
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 Devil by the Tail Description of subject: The Devil by the Tail is a 1969 French-Italian comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, co-written by Gérard Brach, about a struggling aristocratic family who turn their dilapidated château into a hotel and become entangled with gangsters.
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