Butterfield 8
E178212
Butterfield 8 is a 1960 drama film starring Elizabeth Taylor as a troubled New York call girl, a role that earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Butterfield 8 canonical | 9 |
| BUtterfield 8 | 2 |
| BUtterfield 8 (1960 film) | 1 |
| BUtterfield 8 (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1556394 — 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: Butterfield 8 Context triple: [Elizabeth Taylor, notableWork, Butterfield 8]
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A.
The Postman
The Postman is a 1997 post-apocalyptic drama film set in a dystopian future United States, in which a drifter becomes a symbol of hope and rebuilding for scattered communities.
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B.
The Open Road
"The Open Road" is a chapter in Kenneth Grahame's classic children's novel *The Wind in the Willows*, depicting the characters' adventures and sense of freedom while traveling.
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C.
Bankhead
Bankhead is a surname most notably associated with the prominent American political family that included U.S. House Speaker William B. Bankhead and actress Tallulah Bankhead.
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D.
Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove is a critically acclaimed Western television miniseries, based on Larry McMurtry’s novel, that follows two retired Texas Rangers on an epic cattle drive from Texas to Montana.
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E.
The Horseman on the Roof
The Horseman on the Roof is a 1995 French historical adventure-romance film set during a 19th-century cholera epidemic in Provence, based on Jean Giono’s novel and starring Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez.
- 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: Butterfield 8 Target entity description: Butterfield 8 is a 1960 drama film starring Elizabeth Taylor as a troubled New York call girl, a role that earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress.
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A.
The Postman
The Postman is a 1997 post-apocalyptic drama film set in a dystopian future United States, in which a drifter becomes a symbol of hope and rebuilding for scattered communities.
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B.
The Open Road
"The Open Road" is a chapter in Kenneth Grahame's classic children's novel *The Wind in the Willows*, depicting the characters' adventures and sense of freedom while traveling.
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C.
Bankhead
Bankhead is a surname most notably associated with the prominent American political family that included U.S. House Speaker William B. Bankhead and actress Tallulah Bankhead.
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D.
Lonesome Dove
Lonesome Dove is a critically acclaimed Western television miniseries, based on Larry McMurtry’s novel, that follows two retired Texas Rangers on an epic cattle drive from Texas to Montana.
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E.
The Horseman on the Roof
The Horseman on the Roof is a 1995 French historical adventure-romance film set during a 19th-century cholera epidemic in Provence, based on Jean Giono’s novel and starring Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Butterfield 8 Description of subject: Butterfield 8 is a 1960 drama film starring Elizabeth Taylor as a troubled New York call girl, a role that earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
BUtterfield 8
this entity surface form:
BUtterfield 8 (novel)
subject surface form:
Academy Award for Best Actress
this entity surface form:
BUtterfield 8
this entity surface form:
BUtterfield 8 (1960 film)