Scarface (1932 film)
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Scarface (1932 film) is a landmark pre-Code American gangster film, loosely based on Al Capone, that helped define the crime genre with its violent, gritty portrayal of organized crime.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Scarface (1932 film) canonical | 21 |
| Scarface (1932 film universe) | 2 |
| Scarface (1929 novel) | 1 |
| Scarface (1930 novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T821067 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Scarface (1932 film) Context triple: [Howard Hawks, notableWork, Scarface (1932 film)]
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Scarface
Scarface is the notorious nickname of American gangster Al Capone, one of the most infamous crime bosses of the Prohibition era.
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Crime and Punishment (1935 film)
Crime and Punishment (1935 film) is a psychological crime drama adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel, best known for featuring Peter Lorre as the tormented murderer Raskolnikov.
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C.
Mural (1943)
Mural (1943) is a groundbreaking large-scale abstract painting by Jackson Pollock that marked a pivotal transition toward his signature drip style and helped redefine American modern art.
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Murder, Inc.
Murder, Inc. was a notorious organized crime group in the 1930s–1940s that served as the enforcement arm of the American Mafia, carrying out contract killings for various crime families.
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The Snake Pit
The Snake Pit is a 1948 psychological drama film about a woman’s harrowing experiences in a mental institution, noted for its early, serious depiction of mental illness.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Scarface (1932 film) Target entity description: Scarface (1932 film) is a landmark pre-Code American gangster film, loosely based on Al Capone, that helped define the crime genre with its violent, gritty portrayal of organized crime.
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A.
Scarface
Scarface is the notorious nickname of American gangster Al Capone, one of the most infamous crime bosses of the Prohibition era.
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B.
Crime and Punishment (1935 film)
Crime and Punishment (1935 film) is a psychological crime drama adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel, best known for featuring Peter Lorre as the tormented murderer Raskolnikov.
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C.
Mural (1943)
Mural (1943) is a groundbreaking large-scale abstract painting by Jackson Pollock that marked a pivotal transition toward his signature drip style and helped redefine American modern art.
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D.
Murder, Inc.
Murder, Inc. was a notorious organized crime group in the 1930s–1940s that served as the enforcement arm of the American Mafia, carrying out contract killings for various crime families.
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E.
The Snake Pit
The Snake Pit is a 1948 psychological drama film about a woman’s harrowing experiences in a mental institution, noted for its early, serious depiction of mental illness.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Scarface (1932 film) Description of subject: Scarface (1932 film) is a landmark pre-Code American gangster film, loosely based on Al Capone, that helped define the crime genre with its violent, gritty portrayal of organized crime.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Howard
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linked to: Scarface (1932 film)