The Big Operator
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The Big Operator is a 1959 American crime drama film starring Mickey Rooney as a corrupt union boss, notable for featuring Maila Nurmi in a supporting role.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Big Operator canonical | 4 |
| The Big Operator (1959 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T171285 — 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 Big Operator Context triple: [Maila Nurmi, appearedIn, The Big Operator]
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A.
Big Blue
Big Blue is the widely used nickname for the New York Giants, a professional American football team in the NFL.
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B.
The Ball
The Ball is the popular nickname for Reunion Tower, a distinctive geodesic observation tower and Dallas landmark known for its glowing spherical top.
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C.
The Great Eight
The Great Eight is the famous nickname of Russian ice hockey superstar Alex Ovechkin, one of the most prolific goal scorers in NHL history.
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D.
The Pleased
The Pleased was an indie rock band from San Francisco known for featuring harpist-singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom as a member early in her career.
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E.
The Big Guava
The Big Guava is a popular nickname for Tampa, Florida, highlighting the city's historical ties to the guava fruit and its playful echo of New York's "Big Apple" moniker.
- 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 Big Operator Target entity description: The Big Operator is a 1959 American crime drama film starring Mickey Rooney as a corrupt union boss, notable for featuring Maila Nurmi in a supporting role.
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A.
Big Blue
Big Blue is the widely used nickname for the New York Giants, a professional American football team in the NFL.
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B.
The Ball
The Ball is the popular nickname for Reunion Tower, a distinctive geodesic observation tower and Dallas landmark known for its glowing spherical top.
-
C.
The Great Eight
The Great Eight is the famous nickname of Russian ice hockey superstar Alex Ovechkin, one of the most prolific goal scorers in NHL history.
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D.
The Pleased
The Pleased was an indie rock band from San Francisco known for featuring harpist-singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom as a member early in her career.
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E.
The Big Guava
The Big Guava is a popular nickname for Tampa, Florida, highlighting the city's historical ties to the guava fruit and its playful echo of New York's "Big Apple" moniker.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime drama film
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film ⓘ |
| basedOn | original screenplay ⓘ |
| castMember |
Sydney Chaplin (son of Charlie Chaplin)
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surface form:
Charles Chaplin Jr.
Emile Meyer ⓘ Franklyn Farnum ⓘ Jack Mullaney ⓘ Jim Backus ⓘ Leo Gordon ⓘ Maila Nurmi ⓘ Mamie Van Doren ⓘ Mel Tormé ⓘ Mickey Rooney ⓘ Norman Grabowski ⓘ Raymond Greenleaf ⓘ Robert Shayne ⓘ Sam Gilman ⓘ Steve Cochran ⓘ Vaughn Taylor ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| distributor | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | corrupt union boss ⓘ |
| filmingStartDecade | 1950s ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
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crime film ⓘ drama film ⓘ |
| hasTitle | The Big Operator self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | featuring Maila Nurmi in a supporting role ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Albert Zugsmith Productions ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1959 ⓘ |
| stars | Mickey Rooney ⓘ |
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 Big Operator Description of subject: The Big Operator is a 1959 American crime drama film starring Mickey Rooney as a corrupt union boss, notable for featuring Maila Nurmi in a supporting role.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Big Operator
subject surface form:
The Big Operator
this entity surface form:
The Big Operator (1959 film)
subject surface form:
Maila Nurmi