The Man Who Cheated Himself
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The Man Who Cheated Himself is a 1950 film noir crime drama starring Lee J. Cobb and Jane Wyatt, known for its tale of a veteran homicide detective who becomes entangled in a murder cover-up.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Man Who Cheated Himself canonical | 19 |
| "The Man Who Cheated Himself" (1950 film) | 1 |
| The Man Who Cheated Himself (narrative) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T681547 — 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 Man Who Cheated Himself Context triple: [Jane Wyatt, notableWork, The Man Who Cheated Himself]
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A.
A Confession
A Confession is a philosophical and spiritual autobiographical work by Leo Tolstoy in which he recounts his existential crisis and search for the meaning of life.
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B.
The Imposture
The Imposture is a Caroline-era stage play by English dramatist James Shirley, known as one of his notable comedies of intrigue.
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C.
The Scapegoat
The Scapegoat is a famous 1856 painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt depicting a lone goat symbolically burdened with the sins of the people in a desolate landscape.
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D.
The Roving Mind
The Roving Mind is a collection of essays by Isaac Asimov that explores science, technology, humanism, and social issues with his characteristic clarity and wit.
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E.
A Liar’s Autobiography
A Liar’s Autobiography is a surreal, comedic memoir by Monty Python member Graham Chapman that blends fact and fiction to chronicle his life and career.
- 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 Man Who Cheated Himself Target entity description: The Man Who Cheated Himself is a 1950 film noir crime drama starring Lee J. Cobb and Jane Wyatt, known for its tale of a veteran homicide detective who becomes entangled in a murder cover-up.
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A.
A Confession
A Confession is a philosophical and spiritual autobiographical work by Leo Tolstoy in which he recounts his existential crisis and search for the meaning of life.
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B.
The Imposture
The Imposture is a Caroline-era stage play by English dramatist James Shirley, known as one of his notable comedies of intrigue.
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C.
The Scapegoat
The Scapegoat is a famous 1856 painting by Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt depicting a lone goat symbolically burdened with the sins of the people in a desolate landscape.
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D.
The Roving Mind
The Roving Mind is a collection of essays by Isaac Asimov that explores science, technology, humanism, and social issues with his characteristic clarity and wit.
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E.
A Liar’s Autobiography
A Liar’s Autobiography is a surreal, comedic memoir by Monty Python member Graham Chapman that blends fact and fiction to chronicle his life and career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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 Man Who Cheated Himself Description of subject: The Man Who Cheated Himself is a 1950 film noir crime drama starring Lee J. Cobb and Jane Wyatt, known for its tale of a veteran homicide detective who becomes entangled in a murder cover-up.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Man Who Cheated Himself
subject linked to:
Nina Fock
linked to: The Man Who Cheated Himself