The Man Who Would Be King
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The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 adventure film directed by John Huston, based on Rudyard Kipling’s novella about two British adventurers who attempt to become kings in a remote region of Afghanistan.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Man Who Would Be King canonical | 13 |
| Rudyard Kipling's story "The Man Who Would Be King" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1547379 — 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: The Man Who Would Be King Context triple: [Noëlle Boisson, notableWork, The Man Who Would Be King]
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A.
Mackenna's Gold
Mackenna's Gold is a 1969 American Western adventure film about a legendary cache of Apache gold, starring Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif.
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B.
Field of Mars
The Field of Mars is a large historic square and park in central Saint Petersburg, Russia, known for its military parades, revolutionary gatherings, and memorial to the victims of the Revolution.
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C.
The Undiscovered Country
The Undiscovered Country is an 1880 novel by American realist author William Dean Howells that explores spiritualism, social life, and moral dilemmas in post–Civil War New England.
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D.
End of the Trail
End of the Trail is a famous early 20th-century bronze sculpture depicting a weary Native American warrior slumped on his exhausted horse, symbolizing the suffering and displacement of Indigenous peoples in the United States.
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E.
Beyond the Horizon
"Beyond the Horizon" is a song by Bob Dylan from his 2006 album *Modern Times*, noted for its romantic, old-time ballad style and lyrical themes of longing and transcendence.
- 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: The Man Who Would Be King Target entity description: The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 adventure film directed by John Huston, based on Rudyard Kipling’s novella about two British adventurers who attempt to become kings in a remote region of Afghanistan.
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A.
Mackenna's Gold
Mackenna's Gold is a 1969 American Western adventure film about a legendary cache of Apache gold, starring Gregory Peck and Omar Sharif.
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B.
Field of Mars
The Field of Mars is a large historic square and park in central Saint Petersburg, Russia, known for its military parades, revolutionary gatherings, and memorial to the victims of the Revolution.
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C.
The Undiscovered Country
The Undiscovered Country is an 1880 novel by American realist author William Dean Howells that explores spiritualism, social life, and moral dilemmas in post–Civil War New England.
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D.
End of the Trail
End of the Trail is a famous early 20th-century bronze sculpture depicting a weary Native American warrior slumped on his exhausted horse, symbolizing the suffering and displacement of Indigenous peoples in the United States.
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E.
Beyond the Horizon
"Beyond the Horizon" is a song by Bob Dylan from his 2006 album *Modern Times*, noted for its romantic, old-time ballad style and lyrical themes of longing and transcendence.
- 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: The Man Who Would Be King Description of subject: The Man Who Would Be King is a 1975 adventure film directed by John Huston, based on Rudyard Kipling’s novella about two British adventurers who attempt to become kings in a remote region of Afghanistan.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rudyard Kipling's story "The Man Who Would Be King"
subject surface form:
Christopher Plummer
subject surface form:
Michael Caine