Drowning by Numbers
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Drowning by Numbers is a 1988 darkly comic British film directed by Peter Greenaway, known for its stylized visuals, numerical structure, and macabre tale of three women who each murder their husbands.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Drowning by Numbers canonical | 5 |
| Drowning by Numbers (score) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2098081 — 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: Drowning by Numbers Context triple: [Joan Plowright, notableWork, Drowning by Numbers]
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A.
The Crowds
The Crowds is an English title for the 39th chapter of the Qur’an, which emphasizes sincere worship of God alone and contrasts the fates of believers and disbelievers.
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B.
Noah and the Whale
Noah and the Whale was an English indie folk band known for its literate songwriting and the hit single "5 Years Time."
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C.
Somebody's Gotta Die
"Somebody's Gotta Die" is a dark, narrative-driven hip hop track by The Notorious B.I.G. that tells a cinematic revenge story.
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D.
Madman Across the Water
Madman Across the Water is a 1971 studio album by Elton John, known for its richly orchestrated rock sound and the classic track "Tiny Dancer."
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E.
Here Comes the Flood
"Here Comes the Flood" is a dramatic, piano-driven art rock ballad by Peter Gabriel, known for its apocalyptic imagery and emotional intensity, originally released on his 1977 debut solo album.
- 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: Drowning by Numbers Target entity description: Drowning by Numbers is a 1988 darkly comic British film directed by Peter Greenaway, known for its stylized visuals, numerical structure, and macabre tale of three women who each murder their husbands.
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A.
The Crowds
The Crowds is an English title for the 39th chapter of the Qur’an, which emphasizes sincere worship of God alone and contrasts the fates of believers and disbelievers.
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B.
Noah and the Whale
Noah and the Whale was an English indie folk band known for its literate songwriting and the hit single "5 Years Time."
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C.
Somebody's Gotta Die
"Somebody's Gotta Die" is a dark, narrative-driven hip hop track by The Notorious B.I.G. that tells a cinematic revenge story.
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D.
Madman Across the Water
Madman Across the Water is a 1971 studio album by Elton John, known for its richly orchestrated rock sound and the classic track "Tiny Dancer."
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E.
Here Comes the Flood
"Here Comes the Flood" is a dramatic, piano-driven art rock ballad by Peter Gabriel, known for its apocalyptic imagery and emotional intensity, originally released on his 1977 debut solo album.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Drowning by Numbers Description of subject: Drowning by Numbers is a 1988 darkly comic British film directed by Peter Greenaway, known for its stylized visuals, numerical structure, and macabre tale of three women who each murder their husbands.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Drowning by Numbers (score)