Scene of the Crime
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"Scene of the Crime" is a 1949 film noir crime drama starring Van Johnson as a detective investigating the murder of a fellow officer in Los Angeles.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scene of the Crime canonical | 3 |
| Scene of the Crime (1949 film) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5916755 — 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: Scene of the Crime Context triple: [Gloria DeHaven, filmographyIncludes, Scene of the Crime]
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A.
Body of Evidence
Body of Evidence is a 1993 erotic thriller film best known for starring Madonna alongside Willem Dafoe in a controversial, sexually explicit murder trial story.
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B.
Murder Was the Case
Murder Was the Case is a 1994 hip hop soundtrack album and short film project centered on Snoop Doggy Dogg, featuring various West Coast rap artists and produced by Dr. Dre.
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C.
Crime of the Century
Crime of the Century is a 1996 television film dramatizing the controversial Lindbergh kidnapping case, featuring Isabella Rossellini in a leading role.
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D.
Crime of the Century
"Crime of the Century" is the sensational nickname given by the press to the 1932 kidnapping and murder of aviator Charles Lindbergh’s infant son, a case that gripped the United States and became one of the most infamous crimes in American history.
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E.
Perfect Crime
"Perfect Crime" is a fast-paced hard rock song by Guns N' Roses, featured on their 1991 album Use Your Illusion I.
- 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: Scene of the Crime Target entity description: "Scene of the Crime" is a 1949 film noir crime drama starring Van Johnson as a detective investigating the murder of a fellow officer in Los Angeles.
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A.
Body of Evidence
Body of Evidence is a 1993 erotic thriller film best known for starring Madonna alongside Willem Dafoe in a controversial, sexually explicit murder trial story.
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B.
Murder Was the Case
Murder Was the Case is a 1994 hip hop soundtrack album and short film project centered on Snoop Doggy Dogg, featuring various West Coast rap artists and produced by Dr. Dre.
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C.
Crime of the Century
Crime of the Century is a 1996 television film dramatizing the controversial Lindbergh kidnapping case, featuring Isabella Rossellini in a leading role.
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D.
Crime of the Century
"Crime of the Century" is the sensational nickname given by the press to the 1932 kidnapping and murder of aviator Charles Lindbergh’s infant son, a case that gripped the United States and became one of the most infamous crimes in American history.
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E.
Perfect Crime
"Perfect Crime" is a fast-paced hard rock song by Guns N' Roses, featured on their 1991 album Use Your Illusion I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| blackAndWhite | true ⓘ |
| castMember |
Arlene Dahl
ⓘ
Donald Woods ⓘ Gloria DeHaven ⓘ John McIntire ⓘ Leon Ames ⓘ Norma Varden ⓘ Tom Drake ⓘ Van Johnson ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Paul Vogel ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director | Roy Rowland ⓘ |
| distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| editor | Albert Akst ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
film noir ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Mike Conovan ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | police detective ⓘ |
| musicBy | André Previn ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A Los Angeles detective investigates the murder of a fellow police officer. ⓘ |
| producer | William H. Wright ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1949 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 94 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Anthony Mann
ⓘ
Charles Schnee ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| starredActor | Van Johnson ⓘ |
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: Scene of the Crime Description of subject: "Scene of the Crime" is a 1949 film noir crime drama starring Van Johnson as a detective investigating the murder of a fellow officer in Los Angeles.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Scene of the Crime
linked to: Scene of the Crime