Clockers
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Clockers is a 1995 crime drama film directed by Spike Lee that explores urban drug dealing, violence, and moral ambiguity in a Brooklyn housing project.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Clockers canonical | 13 |
| Clockers (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1348291 — 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: Clockers Context triple: [Spike Lee, notableWork, Clockers]
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A.
Reservoir Dogs
Reservoir Dogs is a 1992 independent crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, known for its nonlinear storytelling, sharp dialogue, and violent depiction of a botched diamond heist.
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B.
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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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.
Stakeout
"Stakeout" is a 1987 American buddy-cop comedy thriller film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as detectives assigned to surveil an escaped convict’s ex-girlfriend.
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E.
Trading Places
Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film that satirizes class and social inequality through a story of a wealthy broker and a street hustler whose lives are swapped as part of a cruel bet.
- 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: Clockers Target entity description: Clockers is a 1995 crime drama film directed by Spike Lee that explores urban drug dealing, violence, and moral ambiguity in a Brooklyn housing project.
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A.
Reservoir Dogs
Reservoir Dogs is a 1992 independent crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, known for its nonlinear storytelling, sharp dialogue, and violent depiction of a botched diamond heist.
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B.
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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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.
Stakeout
"Stakeout" is a 1987 American buddy-cop comedy thriller film starring Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez as detectives assigned to surveil an escaped convict’s ex-girlfriend.
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E.
Trading Places
Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film that satirizes class and social inequality through a story of a wealthy broker and a street hustler whose lives are swapped as part of a cruel bet.
- 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: Clockers Description of subject: Clockers is a 1995 crime drama film directed by Spike Lee that explores urban drug dealing, violence, and moral ambiguity in a Brooklyn housing project.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Shelton Jackson Lee