Scanners
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Scanners is a 1981 science fiction horror film directed by David Cronenberg, best known for its intense psychic warfare and iconic head-explosion scene.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scanners canonical | 8 |
| Scanners II: The New Order | 1 |
| Scanners franchise | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4117790 — 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: Scanners Context triple: [Patrick McGoohan, notableWork, Scanners]
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A.
Odradek scanner
The Odradek scanner is a multifunctional, rotating sensor unit in Death Stranding that helps Sam Porter Bridges detect terrain, threats, and cargo-related information in the environment.
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B.
Proscan
Proscan is a consumer electronics brand known for producing affordable televisions and related audio-visual equipment.
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C.
Lasers
Lasers is Lupe Fiasco’s third studio album, known for its politically charged lyrics, pop-oriented production, and contentious relationship with both his label and core fanbase.
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D.
Scaniarinken
Scaniarinken is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Södertälje, Sweden, best known as the home venue for the ice hockey club Södertälje SK.
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E.
Phantoscope
The Phantoscope was an early motion picture projector whose design formed the basis for later commercial projectors like the Vitascope.
- 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: Scanners Target entity description: Scanners is a 1981 science fiction horror film directed by David Cronenberg, best known for its intense psychic warfare and iconic head-explosion scene.
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A.
Odradek scanner
The Odradek scanner is a multifunctional, rotating sensor unit in Death Stranding that helps Sam Porter Bridges detect terrain, threats, and cargo-related information in the environment.
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B.
Proscan
Proscan is a consumer electronics brand known for producing affordable televisions and related audio-visual equipment.
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C.
Lasers
Lasers is Lupe Fiasco’s third studio album, known for its politically charged lyrics, pop-oriented production, and contentious relationship with both his label and core fanbase.
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D.
Scaniarinken
Scaniarinken is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Södertälje, Sweden, best known as the home venue for the ice hockey club Södertälje SK.
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E.
Phantoscope
The Phantoscope was an early motion picture projector whose design formed the basis for later commercial projectors like the Vitascope.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Scanners Description of subject: Scanners is a 1981 science fiction horror film directed by David Cronenberg, best known for its intense psychic warfare and iconic head-explosion scene.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Scanners II: The New Order