Short Circuit
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Short Circuit is a 1986 science fiction comedy film about a military robot that gains sentience after being struck by lightning.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Short Circuit canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3430707 — 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: Short Circuit Context triple: [Steve Guttenberg, notableWork, Short Circuit]
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A.
Hole in the Wall
Hole in the Wall is a famous natural sea-arch rock formation along South Africa’s Wild Coast, known for its striking coastal scenery and cultural significance.
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B.
Rockit
"Rockit" is a groundbreaking 1983 jazz-funk and electro track by Herbie Hancock, widely recognized for its innovative use of turntablism and music video that helped bring scratching into the mainstream.
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C.
Runaround
"Runaround" is a seminal science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov that famously introduced and explored the Three Laws of Robotics through a malfunctioning robot on Mercury.
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D.
Triple Nickel
Triple Nickel is the nickname of the U.S. Army’s 555th Engineer Brigade, a combat engineer formation known for providing specialized engineering and construction support to military operations.
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E.
The Great American Dream Machine
The Great American Dream Machine was an innovative early-1970s American television series that blended satire, documentary segments, and sketch comedy to explore contemporary U.S. culture and politics.
- 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: Short Circuit Target entity description: Short Circuit is a 1986 science fiction comedy film about a military robot that gains sentience after being struck by lightning.
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A.
Hole in the Wall
Hole in the Wall is a famous natural sea-arch rock formation along South Africa’s Wild Coast, known for its striking coastal scenery and cultural significance.
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B.
Rockit
"Rockit" is a groundbreaking 1983 jazz-funk and electro track by Herbie Hancock, widely recognized for its innovative use of turntablism and music video that helped bring scratching into the mainstream.
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C.
Runaround
"Runaround" is a seminal science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov that famously introduced and explored the Three Laws of Robotics through a malfunctioning robot on Mercury.
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D.
Triple Nickel
Triple Nickel is the nickname of the U.S. Army’s 555th Engineer Brigade, a combat engineer formation known for providing specialized engineering and construction support to military operations.
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E.
The Great American Dream Machine
The Great American Dream Machine was an innovative early-1970s American television series that blended satire, documentary segments, and sketch comedy to explore contemporary U.S. culture and politics.
- 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: Short Circuit Description of subject: Short Circuit is a 1986 science fiction comedy film about a military robot that gains sentience after being struck by lightning.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Astoria, Oregon
subject surface form:
Steve Guttenberg