The Big Noise (1944 film)
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The Big Noise is a 1944 Laurel and Hardy comedy film in which the duo play inept detectives assigned to protect an inventor and his explosive new device.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Big Noise (1944 film) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10710529 — 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 Big Noise (1944 film) Context triple: [Sara Haden, appearedIn, The Big Noise (1944 film)]
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A.
Strike Up the Band (1940 film)
Strike Up the Band (1940 film) is a 1940 MGM musical comedy starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney about high school students who form a band to compete in a national contest.
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B.
The Big Broadcast of 1937
The Big Broadcast of 1937 is a 1936 musical comedy film featuring Gracie Allen and other popular radio and vaudeville stars in a revue-style story built around a struggling radio station.
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C.
The Drum (1938 film)
The Drum (1938 film) is a 1938 British Technicolor adventure film set in colonial India, known for its depiction of imperial themes and starring actors such as Roger Livesey.
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D.
The Big Broadcast of 1936
The Big Broadcast of 1936 is a 1935 American musical comedy film featuring an ensemble cast of radio and musical stars, known for its variety-show format and early use of big-band performances on screen.
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E.
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.
- 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 Big Noise (1944 film) Target entity description: The Big Noise is a 1944 Laurel and Hardy comedy film in which the duo play inept detectives assigned to protect an inventor and his explosive new device.
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A.
Strike Up the Band (1940 film)
Strike Up the Band (1940 film) is a 1940 MGM musical comedy starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney about high school students who form a band to compete in a national contest.
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B.
The Big Broadcast of 1937
The Big Broadcast of 1937 is a 1936 musical comedy film featuring Gracie Allen and other popular radio and vaudeville stars in a revue-style story built around a struggling radio station.
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C.
The Drum (1938 film)
The Drum (1938 film) is a 1938 British Technicolor adventure film set in colonial India, known for its depiction of imperial themes and starring actors such as Roger Livesey.
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D.
The Big Broadcast of 1936
The Big Broadcast of 1936 is a 1935 American musical comedy film featuring an ensemble cast of radio and musical stars, known for its variety-show format and early use of big-band performances on screen.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOnCharacterType | bumbling detectives ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| featuresCharacterRole | inept detectives ⓘ |
| featuresDuo | Laurel and Hardy ⓘ |
| featuresGenreElement |
buddy comedy
ⓘ
slapstick ⓘ |
| genre | comedy ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Oliver Hardy
ⓘ
Stan Laurel ⓘ |
| hasMainTheme | comic mishaps in crime protection ⓘ |
| hasPlotDevice |
explosive weapon
ⓘ
secret invention ⓘ |
| hasTimePeriodSetting | World War II era ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Big Noise ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| narrativeElement | explosive new device ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | protection of an inventor ⓘ |
| partOf | Laurel and Hardy filmography ⓘ |
| productionEra | 1940s American cinema ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1944 ⓘ |
| starring |
Oliver Hardy
ⓘ
Stan Laurel ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Big Noise (1944 film) Description of subject: The Big Noise is a 1944 Laurel and Hardy comedy film in which the duo play inept detectives assigned to protect an inventor and his explosive new device.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.