Bad Company
E163928
"Bad Company" is a 1995 American neo-noir thriller film featuring Michael Beach in a supporting role.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bad Company canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1432856 — 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: Bad Company Context triple: [Michael Beach, notableWork, Bad Company]
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A.
Whitesnake
Whitesnake is a British hard rock band formed by former Deep Purple singer David Coverdale, best known for their 1980s hits like "Here I Go Again" and "Is This Love."
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B.
Def Leppard
Def Leppard is a British rock band formed in the late 1970s, best known for its polished hard rock sound and massively successful albums like "Pyromania" and "Hysteria."
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C.
Ratt
Ratt is an American glam metal band that rose to prominence in the 1980s with hits like "Round and Round" and became a key act in the Los Angeles hard rock scene.
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D.
Spandau Ballet
Spandau Ballet is a British new wave band best known for their 1980s hits like "True" and "Gold."
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E.
O Street
O Street is a notable thoroughfare in Sacramento, California, known in part for being home to the Crocker Art Museum.
- 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: Bad Company Target entity description: "Bad Company" is a 1995 American neo-noir thriller film featuring Michael Beach in a supporting role.
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A.
Whitesnake
Whitesnake is a British hard rock band formed by former Deep Purple singer David Coverdale, best known for their 1980s hits like "Here I Go Again" and "Is This Love."
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B.
Def Leppard
Def Leppard is a British rock band formed in the late 1970s, best known for its polished hard rock sound and massively successful albums like "Pyromania" and "Hysteria."
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C.
Ratt
Ratt is an American glam metal band that rose to prominence in the 1980s with hits like "Round and Round" and became a key act in the Los Angeles hard rock scene.
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D.
Spandau Ballet
Spandau Ballet is a British new wave band best known for their 1980s hits like "True" and "Gold."
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E.
O Street
O Street is a notable thoroughfare in Sacramento, California, known in part for being home to the Crocker Art Museum.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
neo-noir film ⓘ thriller film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Ross Thomas ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Bad Company
ⓘ
surface form:
Bad Company (novel)
|
| castMember |
Ellen Barkin
ⓘ
Frank Langella ⓘ Laurence Fishburne ⓘ Michael Beach ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Jack N. Green ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfRelease |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Damian Harris ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Neil Travis ⓘ |
| genre |
neo-noir
ⓘ
thriller ⓘ |
| hasSupportingActor | Michael Beach ⓘ |
| musicBy | Steven Bramson ⓘ |
| notableWorkOf | Damian Harris ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Steven Reuther ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Ross Thomas ⓘ |
| starring |
Ellen Barkin
ⓘ
Frank Langella ⓘ Laurence Fishburne ⓘ Michael Beach ⓘ |
| writer | Ross Thomas ⓘ |
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: Bad Company Description of subject: "Bad Company" is a 1995 American neo-noir thriller film featuring Michael Beach in a supporting role.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.