The Blue Angel
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The Blue Angel is a classic 1930 German film directed by Josef von Sternberg, best known for launching Marlene Dietrich to international stardom as a seductive cabaret singer.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2046800 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Blue Angel Context triple: [Heinrich Mann, workAdaptedAs, The Blue Angel]
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Ziegfeld Girl
Ziegfeld Girl is a 1941 MGM musical drama film that follows the intertwined lives and romances of three women who become performers in the famed Ziegfeld Follies.
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The Lost Weekend
The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American film noir drama directed by Billy Wilder that powerfully portrays an alcoholic writer’s harrowing four-day drinking binge.
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Sullivan's Travels
Sullivan's Travels is a 1941 satirical comedy-drama film directed by Preston Sturges that follows a Hollywood director who goes undercover as a hobo to learn about poverty and social hardship.
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The Magnificent Ambersons
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1942 Orson Welles film adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s novel, chronicling the decline of a wealthy Midwestern family amid the rise of industrialization.
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The Day of the Locust (film)
The Day of the Locust is a 1975 American drama film, based on Nathanael West’s novel, that offers a dark, satirical portrayal of Hollywood and the destructive dreams of those drawn to it in the 1930s.
- 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 Blue Angel Target entity description: The Blue Angel is a classic 1930 German film directed by Josef von Sternberg, best known for launching Marlene Dietrich to international stardom as a seductive cabaret singer.
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A.
Ziegfeld Girl
Ziegfeld Girl is a 1941 MGM musical drama film that follows the intertwined lives and romances of three women who become performers in the famed Ziegfeld Follies.
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B.
The Lost Weekend
The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American film noir drama directed by Billy Wilder that powerfully portrays an alcoholic writer’s harrowing four-day drinking binge.
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C.
Sullivan's Travels
Sullivan's Travels is a 1941 satirical comedy-drama film directed by Preston Sturges that follows a Hollywood director who goes undercover as a hobo to learn about poverty and social hardship.
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D.
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1942 Orson Welles film adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s novel, chronicling the decline of a wealthy Midwestern family amid the rise of industrialization.
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E.
The Day of the Locust (film)
The Day of the Locust is a 1975 American drama film, based on Nathanael West’s novel, that offers a dark, satirical portrayal of Hollywood and the destructive dreams of those drawn to it in the 1930s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
How these facts were elicited
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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 Blue Angel Description of subject: The Blue Angel is a classic 1930 German film directed by Josef von Sternberg, best known for launching Marlene Dietrich to international stardom as a seductive cabaret singer.
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The Blue Angel (1930 film, uncredited/early casting association often mentioned in sources)
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