Showgirls
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Showgirls is a 1995 erotic drama film directed by Paul Verhoeven that follows an ambitious drifter’s ruthless rise through the Las Vegas strip-club and showgirl scene.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Showgirls canonical | 14 |
| Showgirls (1995 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2882019 — 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: Showgirls Context triple: [Gina Gershon, notableWork, Showgirls]
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A.
Ruthless People
Ruthless People is a 1986 dark comedy film about a botched kidnapping plot, starring Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, and Judge Reinhold.
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B.
Chasing Amy
Chasing Amy is a 1997 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Kevin Smith that explores complex relationships and sexual identity within the comic book subculture.
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C.
Death Becomes Her
Death Becomes Her is a 1992 dark comedy fantasy film known for its satirical take on vanity and immortality and its groundbreaking visual effects.
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D.
She’s Gotta Have It
She’s Gotta Have It is a 1986 independent romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee that explores a young Brooklyn woman’s relationships with three very different men.
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E.
Coyote Ugly
Coyote Ugly is a 2000 romantic musical comedy-drama film about a young songwriter who finds herself working at a rowdy New York City bar known for its dancing bartenders.
- 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: Showgirls Target entity description: Showgirls is a 1995 erotic drama film directed by Paul Verhoeven that follows an ambitious drifter’s ruthless rise through the Las Vegas strip-club and showgirl scene.
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A.
Ruthless People
Ruthless People is a 1986 dark comedy film about a botched kidnapping plot, starring Bette Midler, Danny DeVito, and Judge Reinhold.
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B.
Chasing Amy
Chasing Amy is a 1997 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Kevin Smith that explores complex relationships and sexual identity within the comic book subculture.
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C.
Death Becomes Her
Death Becomes Her is a 1992 dark comedy fantasy film known for its satirical take on vanity and immortality and its groundbreaking visual effects.
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D.
She’s Gotta Have It
She’s Gotta Have It is a 1986 independent romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee that explores a young Brooklyn woman’s relationships with three very different men.
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E.
Coyote Ugly
Coyote Ugly is a 2000 romantic musical comedy-drama film about a young songwriter who finds herself working at a rowdy New York City bar known for its dancing bartenders.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Showgirls Description of subject: Showgirls is a 1995 erotic drama film directed by Paul Verhoeven that follows an ambitious drifter’s ruthless rise through the Las Vegas strip-club and showgirl scene.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Gina Gershon
this entity surface form:
Showgirls (1995 film)