The Tin Star
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The Tin Star is a 1947 short story by John W. Cunningham that provided the narrative basis for the classic Western film "High Noon."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Tin Star canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2308309 — 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 Tin Star Context triple: [High Noon, basedOn, The Tin Star]
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A.
Tin Star
Tin Star is a British-Canadian crime drama television series that follows a former London detective who becomes a small-town police chief in the Canadian Rockies, where his dark past and the town’s corruption collide.
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B.
The Starlost
The Starlost is a 1973 Canadian science fiction television series set aboard a vast, drifting generational spaceship whose isolated biosphere communities are unaware they are on a ship.
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C.
Pebble in the Sky
Pebble in the Sky is Isaac Asimov’s first published novel, a science fiction story set in his Galactic Empire universe that explores themes of prejudice, time displacement, and a future Earth’s struggle for survival.
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D.
The Skylark of Space
The Skylark of Space is a pioneering early space opera novel by E. E. "Doc" Smith that helped define many of the genre’s classic interstellar adventure tropes.
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E.
The Star
The Star is the English title of Surah An-Najm, a chapter of the Qur’an that emphasizes the divine origin of revelation and the authority of the Prophet Muhammad.
- 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 Tin Star Target entity description: The Tin Star is a 1947 short story by John W. Cunningham that provided the narrative basis for the classic Western film "High Noon."
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A.
Tin Star
Tin Star is a British-Canadian crime drama television series that follows a former London detective who becomes a small-town police chief in the Canadian Rockies, where his dark past and the town’s corruption collide.
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B.
The Starlost
The Starlost is a 1973 Canadian science fiction television series set aboard a vast, drifting generational spaceship whose isolated biosphere communities are unaware they are on a ship.
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C.
Pebble in the Sky
Pebble in the Sky is Isaac Asimov’s first published novel, a science fiction story set in his Galactic Empire universe that explores themes of prejudice, time displacement, and a future Earth’s struggle for survival.
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D.
The Skylark of Space
The Skylark of Space is a pioneering early space opera novel by E. E. "Doc" Smith that helped define many of the genre’s classic interstellar adventure tropes.
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E.
The Star
The Star is the English title of Surah An-Najm, a chapter of the Qur’an that emphasizes the divine origin of revelation and the authority of the Prophet Muhammad.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| adaptedInto | High Noon ⓘ |
| author | John W. Cunningham ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre | Western fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthor | John W. Cunningham ⓘ |
| hasCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasMainCharacterOccupation | marshal ⓘ |
| hasOriginalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
courage
ⓘ
duty ⓘ isolation ⓘ moralResponsibility ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Tin Star ⓘ |
| influenced |
High Noon
ⓘ
Western cinema ⓘ |
| inspiredWork | High Noon ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| narrativeBasisFor | High Noon ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 1947 ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1947 ⓘ |
| settingGenre | Western ⓘ |
| workBasedOnThis | High Noon ⓘ |
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 Tin Star Description of subject: The Tin Star is a 1947 short story by John W. Cunningham that provided the narrative basis for the classic Western film "High Noon."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.