Bad Day at Black Rock
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Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 American suspense Western film noir known for its tense, minimalist storytelling and Spencer Tracy’s acclaimed performance as a one-armed World War II veteran confronting small-town prejudice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bad Day at Black Rock canonical | 21 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1352133 — 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: Bad Day at Black Rock Context triple: [Spencer Tracy, notableWork, Bad Day at Black Rock]
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A.
The Old Stagecoach
The Old Stagecoach is a celebrated 19th-century genre painting by American artist Eastman Johnson, depicting children playfully transforming an abandoned stagecoach into an imaginative setting for their games.
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B.
End of the Trail
End of the Trail is a famous early 20th-century bronze sculpture depicting a weary Native American warrior slumped on his exhausted horse, symbolizing the suffering and displacement of Indigenous peoples in the United States.
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C.
“An Hour Before Daylight”
“An Hour Before Daylight” is a memoir by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter reflecting on his rural Georgia boyhood during the Great Depression and the people and experiences that shaped his early life.
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D.
The Lonedale Operator
The Lonedale Operator is a 1911 silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith, noted for its innovative cross-cutting and suspenseful storytelling in early cinema.
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E.
The Big Trail
The Big Trail is a 1930 American epic Western film, notable for its early use of widescreen technology and for featuring one of John Wayne’s first leading roles.
- 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: Bad Day at Black Rock Target entity description: Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 American suspense Western film noir known for its tense, minimalist storytelling and Spencer Tracy’s acclaimed performance as a one-armed World War II veteran confronting small-town prejudice.
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A.
The Old Stagecoach
The Old Stagecoach is a celebrated 19th-century genre painting by American artist Eastman Johnson, depicting children playfully transforming an abandoned stagecoach into an imaginative setting for their games.
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B.
End of the Trail
End of the Trail is a famous early 20th-century bronze sculpture depicting a weary Native American warrior slumped on his exhausted horse, symbolizing the suffering and displacement of Indigenous peoples in the United States.
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C.
“An Hour Before Daylight”
“An Hour Before Daylight” is a memoir by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter reflecting on his rural Georgia boyhood during the Great Depression and the people and experiences that shaped his early life.
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D.
The Lonedale Operator
The Lonedale Operator is a 1911 silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith, noted for its innovative cross-cutting and suspenseful storytelling in early cinema.
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E.
The Big Trail
The Big Trail is a 1930 American epic Western film, notable for its early use of widescreen technology and for featuring one of John Wayne’s first leading roles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Bad Day at Black Rock Description of subject: Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 American suspense Western film noir known for its tense, minimalist storytelling and Spencer Tracy’s acclaimed performance as a one-armed World War II veteran confronting small-town prejudice.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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John
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