The Silence of the Lambs
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The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 psychological horror-thriller film centered on FBI trainee Clarice Starling’s pursuit of a serial killer with the help of imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
All labels observed (8)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T197735 — 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: The Silence of the Lambs Context triple: [Jodie Foster, notableWork, The Silence of the Lambs]
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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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Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver is a 1976 psychological drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, renowned for its gritty portrayal of urban alienation and Robert De Niro’s iconic performance as a disturbed New York City cab driver.
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Quantico
Quantico is a small town in Prince William County, Virginia, best known for hosting the Marine Corps Base Quantico and several major U.S. federal law enforcement training facilities.
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Vecherniy Kvartal
Vecherniy Kvartal is a popular Ukrainian comedy and satirical TV show known for its sketches, political humor, and live performances.
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The Shining
The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by Stephen King that follows a troubled writer who becomes the winter caretaker of an isolated, malevolent hotel that slowly drives him to madness.
- 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 Silence of the Lambs Target entity description: The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 psychological horror-thriller film centered on FBI trainee Clarice Starling’s pursuit of a serial killer with the help of imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
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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.
Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver is a 1976 psychological drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, renowned for its gritty portrayal of urban alienation and Robert De Niro’s iconic performance as a disturbed New York City cab driver.
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C.
Quantico
Quantico is a small town in Prince William County, Virginia, best known for hosting the Marine Corps Base Quantico and several major U.S. federal law enforcement training facilities.
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D.
Vecherniy Kvartal
Vecherniy Kvartal is a popular Ukrainian comedy and satirical TV show known for its sketches, political humor, and live performances.
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E.
The Shining
The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by Stephen King that follows a troubled writer who becomes the winter caretaker of an isolated, malevolent hotel that slowly drives him to madness.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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 Silence of the Lambs Description of subject: The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 psychological horror-thriller film centered on FBI trainee Clarice Starling’s pursuit of a serial killer with the help of imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
Referenced by (59)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ted Levine
subject surface form:
Jonathan Demme
this entity surface form:
The Silence of the Lambs (1991 film)
subject surface form:
Scott Glenn