Man on Fire
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Man on Fire is a 2004 action thriller film in which Denzel Washington plays a former CIA operative who seeks brutal revenge after the young girl he was hired to protect is kidnapped in Mexico City.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Man on Fire canonical | 9 |
| Man on Fire (2004 film) | 3 |
| Man on Fire (1980 novel) | 1 |
| Man on Fire (franchise) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1981024 — 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: Man on Fire Context triple: [Denzel Washington, notableWork, Man on Fire]
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A.
Mystic River
Mystic River is a tidal estuary in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, historically significant for shipbuilding and industrial activity along its banks.
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B.
Inside Man
Inside Man is a 2006 American heist thriller film directed by Spike Lee, known for its intricate bank-robbery plot and star-studded cast including Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, and Jodie Foster.
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C.
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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D.
A Mighty Heart
A Mighty Heart is a 2007 drama film based on the true story of journalist Daniel Pearl’s kidnapping, featuring Angelina Jolie as his wife Mariane Pearl.
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E.
Natural Born Killers
Natural Born Killers is a 1994 satirical crime film directed by Oliver Stone that follows a murderous couple turned media sensations, known for its controversial violence and critique of mass media.
- 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: Man on Fire Target entity description: Man on Fire is a 2004 action thriller film in which Denzel Washington plays a former CIA operative who seeks brutal revenge after the young girl he was hired to protect is kidnapped in Mexico City.
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A.
Mystic River
Mystic River is a tidal estuary in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, historically significant for shipbuilding and industrial activity along its banks.
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B.
Inside Man
Inside Man is a 2006 American heist thriller film directed by Spike Lee, known for its intricate bank-robbery plot and star-studded cast including Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, and Jodie Foster.
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C.
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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D.
A Mighty Heart
A Mighty Heart is a 2007 drama film based on the true story of journalist Daniel Pearl’s kidnapping, featuring Angelina Jolie as his wife Mariane Pearl.
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E.
Natural Born Killers
Natural Born Killers is a 1994 satirical crime film directed by Oliver Stone that follows a murderous couple turned media sensations, known for its controversial violence and critique of mass media.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Man on Fire Description of subject: Man on Fire is a 2004 action thriller film in which Denzel Washington plays a former CIA operative who seeks brutal revenge after the young girl he was hired to protect is kidnapped in Mexico City.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Man on Fire (2004 film)
this entity surface form:
Man on Fire (1980 novel)
this entity surface form:
Man on Fire (2004 film)
this entity surface form:
Man on Fire (2004 film)
this entity surface form:
Man on Fire (2004 film)
this entity surface form:
Man on Fire (franchise)