Clean Slate
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Clean Slate is the English title of the 1981 French film "Coup de torchon," a darkly comic crime drama directed by Bertrand Tavernier and set in a French West African colony.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clean Slate canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13313186 — 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: Clean Slate Context triple: [Coup de torchon, translatedTitle, Clean Slate]
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A.
Come Clean
"Come Clean" is a pop-rock song best known as Hilary Duff’s 2004 hit single from her album "Metamorphosis."
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B.
Spotless
Spotless is a Nigerian singer and producer known for his work in the Afrobeats scene and collaborations with prominent artists.
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C.
The Cleanse
The Cleanse is a 2016 dark comedy–fantasy film about a man who attends a spiritual retreat that uses a bizarre cleansing ritual to purge personal demons, starring Johnny Galecki among its ensemble cast.
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D.
Purify
Purify is a software debugging and memory error detection tool originally developed by Pure Software to help developers identify and fix runtime memory issues in their programs.
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E.
Tabula Rasa
Tabula Rasa is a seminal 1977 double concerto by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt that exemplifies his minimalist, spiritually infused tintinnabuli style.
- 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: Clean Slate Target entity description: Clean Slate is the English title of the 1981 French film "Coup de torchon," a darkly comic crime drama directed by Bertrand Tavernier and set in a French West African colony.
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A.
Come Clean
"Come Clean" is a pop-rock song best known as Hilary Duff’s 2004 hit single from her album "Metamorphosis."
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B.
Spotless
Spotless is a Nigerian singer and producer known for his work in the Afrobeats scene and collaborations with prominent artists.
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C.
The Cleanse
The Cleanse is a 2016 dark comedy–fantasy film about a man who attends a spiritual retreat that uses a bizarre cleansing ritual to purge personal demons, starring Johnny Galecki among its ensemble cast.
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D.
Purify
Purify is a software debugging and memory error detection tool originally developed by Pure Software to help developers identify and fix runtime memory issues in their programs.
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E.
Tabula Rasa
Tabula Rasa is a seminal 1977 double concerto by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt that exemplifies his minimalist, spiritually infused tintinnabuli style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| author | Jim Thompson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Pop. 1280 ⓘ |
| castMember |
Eddy Mitchell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Guy Marchand NERFINISHED ⓘ Isabelle Huppert NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean-Pierre Marielle NERFINISHED ⓘ Philippe Noiret NERFINISHED ⓘ Stéphane Audran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Pierre-William Glenn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| director | Bertrand Tavernier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Gaumont NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Armand Psenny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| festivalEntry | 38th Venice International Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy film
ⓘ
crime film ⓘ drama film ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTitle | Clean Slate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFrenchTitle | Coup de torchon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | French ⓘ |
| leadActor | Philippe Noiret NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Lucien Cordier NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Philippe Sarde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | police chief ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Coup de torchon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays |
colonialism
ⓘ
moral corruption ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Les Films 13
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Little Bear NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1981 ⓘ |
| runtime | 128 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Bertrand Tavernier
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jean Aurenche NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | French West Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
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: Clean Slate Description of subject: Clean Slate is the English title of the 1981 French film "Coup de torchon," a darkly comic crime drama directed by Bertrand Tavernier and set in a French West African colony.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.