Touch of Evil
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Touch of Evil is a 1958 film noir thriller directed by and co-starring Orson Welles, renowned for its dark, expressionistic style and legendary long opening tracking shot.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Touch of Evil canonical | 30 |
| Touch of Evil (1958 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1855134 — 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: Touch of Evil Context triple: [Orson Welles, notableWork, Touch of Evil]
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A.
Out of the Past
Out of the Past is a 1947 film noir classic starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer, renowned for its shadowy cinematography, fatalistic tone, and intricate flashback-driven plot.
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B.
White Heat
White Heat is a 1949 American film noir crime drama directed by Raoul Walsh, renowned for James Cagney’s iconic performance as psychotic gangster Cody Jarrett and its explosive finale.
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C.
Anatomy of a Murder
Anatomy of a Murder is a 1959 American courtroom drama film directed by Otto Preminger, renowned for its realistic legal proceedings and exploration of moral ambiguity.
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D.
Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley is a 1947 American film noir psychological drama starring Tyrone Power as an ambitious carnival worker whose ruthless pursuit of success leads to his downfall.
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Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley is a 2021 neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Guillermo del Toro, adapted from William Lindsay Gresham’s novel about a manipulative carnival worker who becomes a corrupt mentalist.
- 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: Touch of Evil Target entity description: Touch of Evil is a 1958 film noir thriller directed by and co-starring Orson Welles, renowned for its dark, expressionistic style and legendary long opening tracking shot.
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A.
Out of the Past
Out of the Past is a 1947 film noir classic starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer, renowned for its shadowy cinematography, fatalistic tone, and intricate flashback-driven plot.
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B.
White Heat
White Heat is a 1949 American film noir crime drama directed by Raoul Walsh, renowned for James Cagney’s iconic performance as psychotic gangster Cody Jarrett and its explosive finale.
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C.
Anatomy of a Murder
Anatomy of a Murder is a 1959 American courtroom drama film directed by Otto Preminger, renowned for its realistic legal proceedings and exploration of moral ambiguity.
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D.
Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley is a 1947 American film noir psychological drama starring Tyrone Power as an ambitious carnival worker whose ruthless pursuit of success leads to his downfall.
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E.
Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley is a 2021 neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Guillermo del Toro, adapted from William Lindsay Gresham’s novel about a manipulative carnival worker who becomes a corrupt mentalist.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Touch of Evil Description of subject: Touch of Evil is a 1958 film noir thriller directed by and co-starring Orson Welles, renowned for its dark, expressionistic style and legendary long opening tracking shot.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.