The Informer
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The Informer is a 1935 American drama film directed by John Ford, renowned for its expressionistic style and Ford’s Oscar-winning direction.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Informer canonical | 19 |
| The Informer (1935 film) | 2 |
| The Informant | 1 |
| The Informer (cinematography contribution, uncredited or partial) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2381027 — 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 Informer Context triple: [New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director, firstAwardedFor, The Informer]
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A.
The Manchurian Candidate
The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 political thriller film about brainwashing and Cold War conspiracy, widely regarded as a classic of American cinema.
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B.
Kill the Messenger
Kill the Messenger is a 2008 stand-up comedy special by Chris Rock that showcases his sharp, politically charged observational humor across performances in New York, London, and Johannesburg.
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C.
The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent is a 1907 political and psychological novel by Joseph Conrad that explores anarchism, terrorism, and espionage in late 19th-century London.
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D.
The Executioner’s Song
The Executioner’s Song is a Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction novel by Norman Mailer that chronicles the life, crimes, and execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore.
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E.
Foreign Correspondent
Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 Alfred Hitchcock-directed spy thriller film set in Europe on the eve of World War II, known for its suspenseful set pieces and wartime propaganda themes.
- 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 Informer Target entity description: The Informer is a 1935 American drama film directed by John Ford, renowned for its expressionistic style and Ford’s Oscar-winning direction.
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A.
The Manchurian Candidate
The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 political thriller film about brainwashing and Cold War conspiracy, widely regarded as a classic of American cinema.
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B.
Kill the Messenger
Kill the Messenger is a 2008 stand-up comedy special by Chris Rock that showcases his sharp, politically charged observational humor across performances in New York, London, and Johannesburg.
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C.
The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent is a 1907 political and psychological novel by Joseph Conrad that explores anarchism, terrorism, and espionage in late 19th-century London.
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D.
The Executioner’s Song
The Executioner’s Song is a Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction novel by Norman Mailer that chronicles the life, crimes, and execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore.
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E.
Foreign Correspondent
Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 Alfred Hitchcock-directed spy thriller film set in Europe on the eve of World War II, known for its suspenseful set pieces and wartime propaganda themes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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 Informer Description of subject: The Informer is a 1935 American drama film directed by John Ford, renowned for its expressionistic style and Ford’s Oscar-winning direction.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Informer
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linked to: The Informer