Shaft (2000 film)
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Shaft (2000 film) is a 2000 action-crime thriller that reimagines the classic blaxploitation character John Shaft, starring Samuel L. Jackson as a tough NYPD detective taking on corruption and violent crime.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shaft (2000 film) canonical | 7 |
| Shaft | 3 |
| Shaft (2019 film) | 2 |
| Shaft film series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1557841 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shaft (2000 film) Context triple: [Samuel L. Jackson, notableWork, Shaft (2000 film)]
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Skyscraper
"Skyscraper" is a power ballad best known as a hit single by Demi Lovato, co-written and produced by songwriter Toby Gad.
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B.
The 25th Hour
The 25th Hour is a novel by David Benioff that follows a convicted drug dealer’s final day of freedom in New York City before beginning a seven-year prison sentence.
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C.
Demolition Man
Demolition Man is a 1993 sci-fi action film set in a dystopian future where a cryogenically frozen cop and criminal are revived to resume their battle in a highly controlled, sanitized society.
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D.
The Rock
The Rock is the nickname of Corregidor, a heavily fortified island in the Philippines that played a crucial role in World War II as a last stronghold of Allied forces in the defense of Manila Bay.
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E.
’Scope
’Scope is an informal abbreviation for CinemaScope, the widescreen film format that revolutionized movie presentation in the 1950s.
- 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: Shaft (2000 film) Target entity description: Shaft (2000 film) is a 2000 action-crime thriller that reimagines the classic blaxploitation character John Shaft, starring Samuel L. Jackson as a tough NYPD detective taking on corruption and violent crime.
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A.
Skyscraper
"Skyscraper" is a power ballad best known as a hit single by Demi Lovato, co-written and produced by songwriter Toby Gad.
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B.
The 25th Hour
The 25th Hour is a novel by David Benioff that follows a convicted drug dealer’s final day of freedom in New York City before beginning a seven-year prison sentence.
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C.
Demolition Man
Demolition Man is a 1993 sci-fi action film set in a dystopian future where a cryogenically frozen cop and criminal are revived to resume their battle in a highly controlled, sanitized society.
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D.
The Rock
The Rock is the nickname of Corregidor, a heavily fortified island in the Philippines that played a crucial role in World War II as a last stronghold of Allied forces in the defense of Manila Bay.
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E.
’Scope
’Scope is an informal abbreviation for CinemaScope, the widescreen film format that revolutionized movie presentation in the 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Shaft (2000 film) Description of subject: Shaft (2000 film) is a 2000 action-crime thriller that reimagines the classic blaxploitation character John Shaft, starring Samuel L. Jackson as a tough NYPD detective taking on corruption and violent crime.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Shaft
this entity surface form:
Shaft (2019 film)
this entity surface form:
Shaft (2019 film)
this entity surface form:
Shaft
this entity surface form:
Shaft film series
this entity surface form:
Shaft