Dial M for Murder
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Dial M for Murder is a 1954 suspense thriller film, adapted from a stage play, that exemplifies Alfred Hitchcock’s mastery of tightly constructed, dialogue-driven crime stories centered on a meticulously planned murder plot gone wrong.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dial M for Murder canonical | 7 |
| Dial M for Murder (play) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T787723 — 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: Dial M for Murder Context triple: [Alfred Hitchcock, notableWork, Dial M for Murder]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Shadow of a Doubt
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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D.
To Catch a Thief
To Catch a Thief is a 1955 romantic thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant as a retired cat burglar suspected of returning to his old ways on the French Riviera.
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E.
Rear Window
Rear Window is a 1954 suspense thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, centered on a wheelchair-bound photographer who suspects his neighbor of murder while spying on his apartment courtyard.
- 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: Dial M for Murder Target entity description: Dial M for Murder is a 1954 suspense thriller film, adapted from a stage play, that exemplifies Alfred Hitchcock’s mastery of tightly constructed, dialogue-driven crime stories centered on a meticulously planned murder plot gone wrong.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Shadow of a Doubt
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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D.
To Catch a Thief
To Catch a Thief is a 1955 romantic thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant as a retired cat burglar suspected of returning to his old ways on the French Riviera.
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E.
Rear Window
Rear Window is a 1954 suspense thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, centered on a wheelchair-bound photographer who suspects his neighbor of murder while spying on his apartment courtyard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Dial M for Murder Description of subject: Dial M for Murder is a 1954 suspense thriller film, adapted from a stage play, that exemplifies Alfred Hitchcock’s mastery of tightly constructed, dialogue-driven crime stories centered on a meticulously planned murder plot gone wrong.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dial M for Murder