The Ringer (1928 film)
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The Ringer (1928 film) is a British silent crime drama based on Edgar Wallace’s popular stage play about a master of disguise seeking revenge.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Ringer (1952 film) | 3 |
| The Ringer (1928 film) canonical | 2 |
| The Ringer (1931 film) | 2 |
| The Ringer (1932 film) | 1 |
| The Ringer (film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5527545 — 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 Ringer (1928 film) Context triple: [The Ringer, hasAdaptation, The Ringer (1928 film)]
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A.
The Round-Up (1920 film)
The Round-Up (1920 film) is a 1920 American silent Western drama best known for starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in a rare serious role.
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B.
The Crowd Roars (1928)
The Crowd Roars (1928) is a silent drama film directed by King Vidor, known for its intense depiction of auto racing and the personal conflicts surrounding a star driver.
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C.
The Divorcee (1930)
The Divorcee (1930) is a pre-Code American drama film, produced at MGM, that became notable for its frank treatment of marriage and infidelity and earned Norma Shearer an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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D.
Riptide (1934)
Riptide (1934) is a pre-Code romantic drama film best known as one of producer Irving Thalberg’s polished MGM star vehicles of the early 1930s.
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E.
Rain (1928 film)
Rain (1928 film) is a silent drama starring Joan Crawford, based on W. Somerset Maugham’s story about a troubled woman and a fanatical missionary on a South Seas island.
- 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 Ringer (1928 film) Target entity description: The Ringer (1928 film) is a British silent crime drama based on Edgar Wallace’s popular stage play about a master of disguise seeking revenge.
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A.
The Round-Up (1920 film)
The Round-Up (1920 film) is a 1920 American silent Western drama best known for starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle in a rare serious role.
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B.
The Crowd Roars (1928)
The Crowd Roars (1928) is a silent drama film directed by King Vidor, known for its intense depiction of auto racing and the personal conflicts surrounding a star driver.
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C.
The Divorcee (1930)
The Divorcee (1930) is a pre-Code American drama film, produced at MGM, that became notable for its frank treatment of marriage and infidelity and earned Norma Shearer an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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D.
Riptide (1934)
Riptide (1934) is a pre-Code romantic drama film best known as one of producer Irving Thalberg’s polished MGM star vehicles of the early 1930s.
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E.
Rain (1928 film)
Rain (1928 film) is a silent drama starring Joan Crawford, based on W. Somerset Maugham’s story about a troubled woman and a fanatical missionary on a South Seas island.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Ringer (play) ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkAuthor | Edgar Wallace ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Arthur Maude ⓘ |
| distributor | Butcher's Film Service ⓘ |
| era | late 1920s British cinema ⓘ |
| filmFormat | 35 mm ⓘ |
| genre | crime drama ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Inspector Wembury
ⓘ
Maurice Meister ⓘ The Ringer ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
crime
ⓘ
disguise ⓘ justice ⓘ revenge ⓘ |
| isAdaptationOf | stage play ⓘ |
| language | Silent ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Edgar Wallace film adaptations
ⓘ
linked to:
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre
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| plotSummary | A master of disguise known as the Ringer returns to London to seek revenge on a crooked lawyer he blames for his sister’s death. ⓘ |
| producer | Archibald Nettlefold ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Nettlefold Films ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1928 ⓘ |
| screenWriter | Edgar Wallace ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| silentWithIntertitles | true ⓘ |
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 Ringer (1928 film) Description of subject: The Ringer (1928 film) is a British silent crime drama based on Edgar Wallace’s popular stage play about a master of disguise seeking revenge.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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