Shadow of a Doubt
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Shadow of a Doubt is a 1943 psychological thriller film often regarded as one of Alfred Hitchcock’s finest works, exploring dark secrets and suspense in a seemingly idyllic small town.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shadow of a Doubt canonical | 24 |
| Shadow of a Doubt (1943 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T787722 — 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: Shadow of a Doubt Context triple: [Alfred Hitchcock, notableWork, Shadow of a Doubt]
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Gaslight
Gaslight is a 1944 psychological thriller film, directed by George Cukor and starring Ingrid Bergman, that popularized the term "gaslighting" to describe psychological manipulation.
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B.
Strangers on a Train
Strangers on a Train is a 1951 psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, centered on a deadly pact between two strangers who meet on a train.
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C.
Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley is a 2021 neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Guillermo del Toro, adapted from William Lindsay Gresham’s novel about a manipulative carnival worker who becomes a corrupt mentalist.
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D.
Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley is a 1947 American film noir psychological drama starring Tyrone Power as an ambitious carnival worker whose ruthless pursuit of success leads to his downfall.
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E.
Witness for the Prosecution
Witness for the Prosecution is a classic 1957 courtroom drama film, based on Agatha Christie's work and renowned for its suspenseful plot twists and performances.
- 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: Shadow of a Doubt Target entity description: Shadow of a Doubt is a 1943 psychological thriller film often regarded as one of Alfred Hitchcock’s finest works, exploring dark secrets and suspense in a seemingly idyllic small town.
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A.
Gaslight
Gaslight is a 1944 psychological thriller film, directed by George Cukor and starring Ingrid Bergman, that popularized the term "gaslighting" to describe psychological manipulation.
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B.
Strangers on a Train
Strangers on a Train is a 1951 psychological thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, centered on a deadly pact between two strangers who meet on a train.
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C.
Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley is a 2021 neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Guillermo del Toro, adapted from William Lindsay Gresham’s novel about a manipulative carnival worker who becomes a corrupt mentalist.
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D.
Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley is a 1947 American film noir psychological drama starring Tyrone Power as an ambitious carnival worker whose ruthless pursuit of success leads to his downfall.
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E.
Witness for the Prosecution
Witness for the Prosecution is a classic 1957 courtroom drama film, based on Agatha Christie's work and renowned for its suspenseful plot twists and performances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Shadow of a Doubt Description of subject: Shadow of a Doubt is a 1943 psychological thriller film often regarded as one of Alfred Hitchcock’s finest works, exploring dark secrets and suspense in a seemingly idyllic small town.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.