The Crash
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The Crash is a 1928 American drama film, best known as a silent-era production featuring actor William Janney.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Crash canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10521095 — 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 Crash Context triple: [William Janney, notableWork, The Crash]
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A.
Crashout
Crashout is a 1955 American film noir crime drama about a group of escaped convicts on a violent quest for hidden loot.
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B.
Crash
Crash is a controversial 1973 novel by J. G. Ballard that explores the eroticization of car crashes and the dark intersections of technology, violence, and desire.
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C.
Crash
Crash is a 1986 synth-pop album by British band The Human League, best known for featuring the hit single "Human" and marking a more polished, R&B-influenced sound for the group.
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D.
Crash
Crash is a 2004 ensemble drama film exploring racial and social tensions in Los Angeles through intersecting storylines.
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E.
Crash
Crash is a hyperactive opossum character from the Ice Age animated film series, known for his comic antics alongside his twin brother Eddie.
- 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 Crash Target entity description: The Crash is a 1928 American drama film, best known as a silent-era production featuring actor William Janney.
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A.
Crashout
Crashout is a 1955 American film noir crime drama about a group of escaped convicts on a violent quest for hidden loot.
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B.
Crash
Crash is a controversial 1973 novel by J. G. Ballard that explores the eroticization of car crashes and the dark intersections of technology, violence, and desire.
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C.
Crash
Crash is a 1986 synth-pop album by British band The Human League, best known for featuring the hit single "Human" and marking a more polished, R&B-influenced sound for the group.
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D.
Crash
Crash is a 2004 ensemble drama film exploring racial and social tensions in Los Angeles through intersecting storylines.
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E.
Crash
Crash is a hyperactive opossum character from the Ice Age animated film series, known for his comic antics alongside his twin brother Eddie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| era | 1920s American film ⓘ |
| feature | silent-era production ⓘ |
| filmFormat | black-and-white film ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| hasActor | William Janney ⓘ |
| hasGenre | drama ⓘ |
| hasLanguageType | intertitles ⓘ |
| hasReleaseFormat | theatrical release ⓘ |
| isKnownFor | featuring actor William Janney ⓘ |
| isPartOf | American cinema ⓘ |
| mainCastMember | William Janney ⓘ |
| medium | cinema ⓘ |
| notablePeriod | late silent era ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Silent film ⓘ |
| productionPeriod | silent era ⓘ |
| productionType | feature-length film ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1928 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1928 ⓘ |
| soundCharacteristic | silent ⓘ |
| title | The Crash ⓘ |
| workType | narrative feature film ⓘ |
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 Crash Description of subject: The Crash is a 1928 American drama film, best known as a silent-era production featuring actor William Janney.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.