American Gigolo
E455510
American Gigolo is a 1980 neo-noir crime drama film about a high-priced male escort in Los Angeles, widely known for its stylish direction and for helping establish Richard Gere as a major Hollywood star.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| American Gigolo canonical | 8 |
| American Gigolo (TV series) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4589107 — 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: American Gigolo Context triple: [Richard Gere, notableWork, American Gigolo]
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A.
Gigolo Joe
Gigolo Joe is a charming, hyper-stylized male-prostitute android character from Steven Spielberg’s science fiction film "A.I. Artificial Intelligence."
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B.
Gigolo
"Gigolo" is a poem by Sylvia Plath, included in her collection *Winter Trees*, that explores themes of sexuality, performance, and emotional detachment.
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C.
Klute
Klute is a 1971 neo-noir thriller film directed by Alan J. Pakula, best known for Jane Fonda’s Oscar-winning performance as a call girl involved in a missing-person investigation.
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D.
Night and the City
Night and the City is a 1992 neo-noir crime drama film, a remake of the 1950 classic, centered on a small-time lawyer’s desperate plunge into the criminal underworld of New York City.
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E.
Scarlet Street
Scarlet Street is a 1945 American film noir drama directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its dark psychological themes and tragic exploration of obsession and deceit.
- 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: American Gigolo Target entity description: American Gigolo is a 1980 neo-noir crime drama film about a high-priced male escort in Los Angeles, widely known for its stylish direction and for helping establish Richard Gere as a major Hollywood star.
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A.
Gigolo Joe
Gigolo Joe is a charming, hyper-stylized male-prostitute android character from Steven Spielberg’s science fiction film "A.I. Artificial Intelligence."
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B.
Gigolo
"Gigolo" is a poem by Sylvia Plath, included in her collection *Winter Trees*, that explores themes of sexuality, performance, and emotional detachment.
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C.
Klute
Klute is a 1971 neo-noir thriller film directed by Alan J. Pakula, best known for Jane Fonda’s Oscar-winning performance as a call girl involved in a missing-person investigation.
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D.
Night and the City
Night and the City is a 1992 neo-noir crime drama film, a remake of the 1950 classic, centered on a small-time lawyer’s desperate plunge into the criminal underworld of New York City.
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E.
Scarlet Street
Scarlet Street is a 1945 American film noir drama directed by Fritz Lang, renowned for its dark psychological themes and tragic exploration of obsession and deceit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime drama film
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film ⓘ neo-noir film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | John Bailey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| costumeDesigner | Giorgio Armani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Paul Schrader NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Richard Halsey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| famousFor |
establishing Richard Gere as a major Hollywood star
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fashion influence ⓘ stylish direction ⓘ |
| featuresSong | Call Me NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime
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drama ⓘ neo-noir ⓘ |
| hasFilmPosterDesigner | Richard Amsel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
fashion in 1980s cinema
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portrayals of male escorts in film ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Julian Kaye NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Giorgio Moroder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | American neo-noir cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrays |
male escort
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murder investigation ⓘ sex work ⓘ |
| producer | Jerry Bruckheimer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ratedBy | MPAA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1980-02-01 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 117 ⓘ |
| screenplayBy | Paul Schrader NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| stars |
Bill Duke
NERFINISHED
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Brian Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ Carole Cook NERFINISHED ⓘ David Cryer NERFINISHED ⓘ Hector Elizondo NERFINISHED ⓘ K Callan NERFINISHED ⓘ Lauren Hutton NERFINISHED ⓘ Lauren Hutton as Michelle Stratton NERFINISHED ⓘ Nina Van Pallandt NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Gere NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Gere as Julian Kaye NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeSongPerformer | Blondie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Paul Schrader 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: American Gigolo Description of subject: American Gigolo is a 1980 neo-noir crime drama film about a high-priced male escort in Los Angeles, widely known for its stylish direction and for helping establish Richard Gere as a major Hollywood star.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
American Gigolo (TV series)