The Sign of Four (1923)
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The Sign of Four (1923) is a British silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel, directed by prolific filmmaker Maurice Elvey.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Sign of Four (1923) canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6510280 — 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 Sign of Four (1923) Context triple: [Maurice Elvey, notableWork, The Sign of Four (1923)]
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A.
Sherlock Holmes (1922 film)
Sherlock Holmes (1922 film) is a silent mystery drama adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective stories, starring John Barrymore in the title role.
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B.
Detective Story
Detective Story is a 1951 American crime drama film, based on Sidney Kingsley’s play, that follows a rigid New York City detective whose moral absolutism is tested over the course of a single day in a busy precinct.
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C.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film) is a classic black-and-white mystery movie featuring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes in one of his most iconic screen portrayals.
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D.
Shadow of the Thin Man
Shadow of the Thin Man is a 1941 comedy-mystery film in the popular "Thin Man" series, featuring William Powell and Myrna Loy as the witty detective couple Nick and Nora Charles.
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E.
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror is a 1942 mystery film in the Sherlock Holmes series, set during World War II and featuring Basil Rathbone as Holmes investigating Nazi propaganda broadcasts threatening Britain.
- 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 Sign of Four (1923) Target entity description: The Sign of Four (1923) is a British silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel, directed by prolific filmmaker Maurice Elvey.
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A.
Sherlock Holmes (1922 film)
Sherlock Holmes (1922 film) is a silent mystery drama adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective stories, starring John Barrymore in the title role.
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B.
Detective Story
Detective Story is a 1951 American crime drama film, based on Sidney Kingsley’s play, that follows a rigid New York City detective whose moral absolutism is tested over the course of a single day in a busy precinct.
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C.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 film) is a classic black-and-white mystery movie featuring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes in one of his most iconic screen portrayals.
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D.
Shadow of the Thin Man
Shadow of the Thin Man is a 1941 comedy-mystery film in the popular "Thin Man" series, featuring William Powell and Myrna Loy as the witty detective couple Nick and Nora Charles.
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E.
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror is a 1942 mystery film in the Sherlock Holmes series, set during World War II and featuring Basil Rathbone as Holmes investigating Nazi propaganda broadcasts threatening Britain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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film director ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Sherlock Holmes novel ⓘ |
| adaptationType | film adaptation ⓘ |
| author | Arthur Conan Doyle ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Sign of Four ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Arthur Conan Doyle ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Maurice Elvey ⓘ |
| directorNationality | British ⓘ |
| era | silent era ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Dr. John Watson
ⓘ
linked to:
Dr. Watson
Sherlock Holmes ⓘ
linked to:
Holmes
|
| genre |
crime film
ⓘ
detective film ⓘ mystery film ⓘ |
| language | silent ⓘ |
| medium | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Sign of Four (1923) ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise |
Sherlock Holmes films
ⓘ
linked to:
Sherlock Holmes film series
|
| publicationYear | 1923 ⓘ |
| title | The Sign of Four ⓘ |
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 Sign of Four (1923) Description of subject: The Sign of Four (1923) is a British silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novel, directed by prolific filmmaker Maurice Elvey.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Sign of Four (1923)