Coup de torchon
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Coup de torchon is a 1981 French black comedy crime film directed by Bertrand Tavernier, adapted from Jim Thompson’s novel "Pop. 1280" and acclaimed for its darkly satirical portrayal of moral decay in a colonial African town.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Coup de torchon canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2983135 — 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: Coup de torchon Context triple: [Jean-Pierre Marielle, notableWork, Coup de torchon]
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A.
Cible émouvante
Cible émouvante is a French comic book by writer Tonino Benacquista and artist Tardi that inspired the film "Wild Target," blending crime, dark humor, and offbeat characters.
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B.
Le Jour
Le Jour is the original French title of the 1987 American drama film "The Day," directed by Peter Markle.
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C.
La Coupole
La Coupole is a historic and iconic Parisian brasserie in Montparnasse, famed for its Art Deco decor and its role as a meeting place for artists and intellectuals.
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D.
Alcochete
Alcochete is a town in Portugal, near Lisbon on the south bank of the Tagus River, known historically as the birthplace of King Manuel I and for its traditional fishing and salt industries.
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E.
À rebours
À rebours is an 1884 novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans that became a seminal work of the Decadent movement, famed for its portrayal of an eccentric aristocrat’s extreme aestheticism and rejection of conventional morality.
- 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: Coup de torchon Target entity description: Coup de torchon is a 1981 French black comedy crime film directed by Bertrand Tavernier, adapted from Jim Thompson’s novel "Pop. 1280" and acclaimed for its darkly satirical portrayal of moral decay in a colonial African town.
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A.
Cible émouvante
Cible émouvante is a French comic book by writer Tonino Benacquista and artist Tardi that inspired the film "Wild Target," blending crime, dark humor, and offbeat characters.
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B.
Le Jour
Le Jour is the original French title of the 1987 American drama film "The Day," directed by Peter Markle.
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C.
La Coupole
La Coupole is a historic and iconic Parisian brasserie in Montparnasse, famed for its Art Deco decor and its role as a meeting place for artists and intellectuals.
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D.
Alcochete
Alcochete is a town in Portugal, near Lisbon on the south bank of the Tagus River, known historically as the birthplace of King Manuel I and for its traditional fishing and salt industries.
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E.
À rebours
À rebours is an 1884 novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans that became a seminal work of the Decadent movement, famed for its portrayal of an eccentric aristocrat’s extreme aestheticism and rejection of conventional morality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Coup de torchon Description of subject: Coup de torchon is a 1981 French black comedy crime film directed by Bertrand Tavernier, adapted from Jim Thompson’s novel "Pop. 1280" and acclaimed for its darkly satirical portrayal of moral decay in a colonial African town.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.