Cockfighter
E141054
Cockfighter is a 1974 American drama film, directed by Monte Hellman and starring Warren Oates, that follows a man's obsessive pursuit of success in the world of illegal cockfighting.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cockfighter canonical | 4 |
| Cockfighter (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1233233 — 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: Cockfighter Context triple: [Warren Oates, notableWork, Cockfighter]
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A.
Killing Birds
"Killing Birds" is a song featured on the album "Carry On."
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B.
Venetian Bird
Venetian Bird is a 1952 British film noir thriller, also known as The Assassin, in which Sterling Hayden plays an American private investigator entangled in political intrigue in postwar Venice.
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C.
The Cock n’ Hens
The Cock n’ Hens is a traditional nickname for Glentoran FC, one of Northern Ireland’s most historic and successful football clubs.
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D.
Red Bird
Red Bird was a Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) leader who led a notable Native American resistance against U.S. expansion in the early 19th century.
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E.
The Bird in a Cage
The Bird in a Cage is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English dramatist James Shirley, known for its witty exploration of courtly love and confinement.
- 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: Cockfighter Target entity description: Cockfighter is a 1974 American drama film, directed by Monte Hellman and starring Warren Oates, that follows a man's obsessive pursuit of success in the world of illegal cockfighting.
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A.
Killing Birds
"Killing Birds" is a song featured on the album "Carry On."
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B.
Venetian Bird
Venetian Bird is a 1952 British film noir thriller, also known as The Assassin, in which Sterling Hayden plays an American private investigator entangled in political intrigue in postwar Venice.
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C.
The Cock n’ Hens
The Cock n’ Hens is a traditional nickname for Glentoran FC, one of Northern Ireland’s most historic and successful football clubs.
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D.
Red Bird
Red Bird was a Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) leader who led a notable Native American resistance against U.S. expansion in the early 19th century.
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E.
The Bird in a Cage
The Bird in a Cage is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English dramatist James Shirley, known for its witty exploration of courtly love and confinement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Cockfighter Description of subject: Cockfighter is a 1974 American drama film, directed by Monte Hellman and starring Warren Oates, that follows a man's obsessive pursuit of success in the world of illegal cockfighting.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cockfighter (novel)