Do the Right Thing
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Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American drama film written, directed, and produced by Spike Lee that explores racial tension and conflict in a Brooklyn neighborhood over the course of a hot summer day.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Do the Right Thing canonical | 22 |
| Da Mayor in Do the Right Thing | 1 |
| Do the Right Thing (film) | 1 |
| Do the Right Thing (soundtrack) | 1 |
| Radio Raheem in Do the Right Thing | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1348285 — 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: Do the Right Thing Context triple: [Spike Lee, notableWork, Do the Right Thing]
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A.
Ruthless People
Ruthless People is a 1986 dark comedy film about a botched kidnapping plot, starring Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, and Judge Reinhold.
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B.
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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C.
Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction is a 1994 crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, renowned for its nonlinear narrative, dark humor, and influential impact on modern cinema.
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D.
Mean Streets
Mean Streets is a 1973 crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese that became a landmark of the New Hollywood era for its gritty portrayal of small-time gangsters in New York City.
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E.
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is a 1974 American thriller film about a hijacked New York City subway train, renowned for its tense pacing, gritty realism, and influential status in the heist genre.
- 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: Do the Right Thing Target entity description: Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American drama film written, directed, and produced by Spike Lee that explores racial tension and conflict in a Brooklyn neighborhood over the course of a hot summer day.
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A.
Ruthless People
Ruthless People is a 1986 dark comedy film about a botched kidnapping plot, starring Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, and Judge Reinhold.
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B.
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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C.
Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction is a 1994 crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, renowned for its nonlinear narrative, dark humor, and influential impact on modern cinema.
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D.
Mean Streets
Mean Streets is a 1973 crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese that became a landmark of the New Hollywood era for its gritty portrayal of small-time gangsters in New York City.
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E.
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is a 1974 American thriller film about a hijacked New York City subway train, renowned for its tense pacing, gritty realism, and influential status in the heist genre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Do the Right Thing Description of subject: Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American drama film written, directed, and produced by Spike Lee that explores racial tension and conflict in a Brooklyn neighborhood over the course of a hot summer day.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Shelton Jackson Lee
this entity surface form:
Da Mayor in Do the Right Thing
this entity surface form:
Do the Right Thing (film)
this entity surface form:
Radio Raheem in Do the Right Thing
this entity surface form:
Do the Right Thing (soundtrack)