Once Upon a Time in America
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Once Upon a Time in America is a 1984 epic crime drama film directed by Sergio Leone that chronicles the lives of Jewish gangsters in New York City across several decades.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Once Upon a Time in America canonical | 18 |
| Once Upon a Time in America (1984 film) | 1 |
| Once Upon a Time in America (original motion picture) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3293670 — 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: Once Upon a Time in America Context triple: [Burt Young, appearedIn, Once Upon a Time in America]
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Once Upon a Time in America (score)
"Once Upon a Time in America (score)" is the evocative orchestral film soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone for Sergio Leone’s epic crime drama about Jewish gangsters in early 20th-century New York.
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The Pawnbroker
The Pawnbroker is a 1964 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, renowned for Rod Steiger’s powerful portrayal of a Holocaust survivor running a Harlem pawnshop.
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C.
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is a 2007 crime thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet that follows two brothers whose plan to rob their parents’ jewelry store spirals into tragedy.
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D.
Goodfellas
Goodfellas is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese that chronicles the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill within the New York Mafia.
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E.
A Bronx Tale
A Bronx Tale is a 1993 coming-of-age crime drama film set in 1960s New York, directed by and starring Robert De Niro and based on Chazz Palminteri’s autobiographical one-man play.
- 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: Once Upon a Time in America Target entity description: Once Upon a Time in America is a 1984 epic crime drama film directed by Sergio Leone that chronicles the lives of Jewish gangsters in New York City across several decades.
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A.
Once Upon a Time in America (score)
"Once Upon a Time in America (score)" is the evocative orchestral film soundtrack composed by Ennio Morricone for Sergio Leone’s epic crime drama about Jewish gangsters in early 20th-century New York.
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B.
The Pawnbroker
The Pawnbroker is a 1964 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, renowned for Rod Steiger’s powerful portrayal of a Holocaust survivor running a Harlem pawnshop.
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C.
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is a 2007 crime thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet that follows two brothers whose plan to rob their parents’ jewelry store spirals into tragedy.
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D.
Goodfellas
Goodfellas is a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese that chronicles the rise and fall of mob associate Henry Hill within the New York Mafia.
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E.
A Bronx Tale
A Bronx Tale is a 1993 coming-of-age crime drama film set in 1960s New York, directed by and starring Robert De Niro and based on Chazz Palminteri’s autobiographical one-man play.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Once Upon a Time in America Description of subject: Once Upon a Time in America is a 1984 epic crime drama film directed by Sergio Leone that chronicles the lives of Jewish gangsters in New York City across several decades.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Once Upon a Time in America (1984 film)
this entity surface form:
Once Upon a Time in America (original motion picture)