The Snapper
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The Snapper is a 1993 Irish comedy-drama film, based on Roddy Doyle’s novel, that humorously and poignantly portrays a working-class Dublin family dealing with an unplanned pregnancy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Snapper canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4496173 — 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: The Snapper Context triple: [Colm Meaney, notableWork, The Snapper]
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A.
The Snakes
The Snakes is a subgroup affiliated with the Brooklyn hip-hop collective Junior M.A.F.I.A., associated with the mid-1990s East Coast rap scene.
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B.
The Snail
The Snail is a late-career cut-out collage by Henri Matisse that arranges bold, colorful paper shapes into a semi-abstract spiral composition.
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C.
The Fox
The Fox is a film featuring Sydney Chaplin, the son of legendary comedian and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin.
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D.
The Fox
The Fox was the nickname of Johnny Torrio, an influential early 20th-century Italian-American mobster and mentor to Al Capone who helped shape organized crime in Chicago.
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E.
The Fox
The Fox is a masked vigilante hero from early 20th-century California, best known for fighting injustice with cunning, swordplay, and a distinctive black costume and mask.
- 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: The Snapper Target entity description: The Snapper is a 1993 Irish comedy-drama film, based on Roddy Doyle’s novel, that humorously and poignantly portrays a working-class Dublin family dealing with an unplanned pregnancy.
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A.
The Snakes
The Snakes is a subgroup affiliated with the Brooklyn hip-hop collective Junior M.A.F.I.A., associated with the mid-1990s East Coast rap scene.
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B.
The Snail
The Snail is a late-career cut-out collage by Henri Matisse that arranges bold, colorful paper shapes into a semi-abstract spiral composition.
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C.
The Fox
The Fox is a film featuring Sydney Chaplin, the son of legendary comedian and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin.
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D.
The Fox
The Fox was the nickname of Johnny Torrio, an influential early 20th-century Italian-American mobster and mentor to Al Capone who helped shape organized crime in Chicago.
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E.
The Fox
The Fox is a masked vigilante hero from early 20th-century California, best known for fighting injustice with cunning, swordplay, and a distinctive black costume and mask.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy-drama film
ⓘ
film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Roddy Doyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Colm Meaney) ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Snapper (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Oliver Stapleton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Stanley Myers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Ireland ⓘ |
| depictsSocialClass | working-class Dublin family ⓘ |
| director | Stephen Frears NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Rank Film Distributors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Mick Audsley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | The Van (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | The Commitments (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Irish film
ⓘ
comedy-drama ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
community gossip
ⓘ
family relationships ⓘ single motherhood ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Dessie Curley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sharon Curley NERFINISHED ⓘ Veronica Curley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | unplanned pregnancy ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | BBC One ⓘ |
| partOf | Barrytown Trilogy (film series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Colm Meaney
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ruth McCabe NERFINISHED ⓘ Tina Kellegher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Lynda Myles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
BBC Films
NERFINISHED
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Channel 4 Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfSourceWork | 1990 ⓘ |
| releaseFormat |
television film
ⓘ
theatrical release (selected territories) ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1993 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 91 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Roddy Doyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInCountry | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInLocation | Dublin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: The Snapper Description of subject: The Snapper is a 1993 Irish comedy-drama film, based on Roddy Doyle’s novel, that humorously and poignantly portrays a working-class Dublin family dealing with an unplanned pregnancy.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.