Secretary (2002 film)
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Secretary (2002 film) is a dark romantic comedy-drama exploring a BDSM-infused relationship between a dominant lawyer and his submissive secretary.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Secretary (2002 film) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4676662 — 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: Secretary (2002 film) Context triple: [James Spader, notableWork, Secretary (2002 film)]
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A.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the formal style of address traditionally used for the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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B.
Mr. Secretary
Mr. Secretary is the formal style of address traditionally used for the United States Secretary of Defense.
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C.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the traditional formal style of address used for the United States Secretary of the Treasury.
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D.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the formal style of address traditionally used for the United States Secretary of Transportation.
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E.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the formal style of address traditionally used for the United States Secretary of State.
- 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: Secretary (2002 film) Target entity description: Secretary (2002 film) is a dark romantic comedy-drama exploring a BDSM-infused relationship between a dominant lawyer and his submissive secretary.
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A.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the formal style of address traditionally used for the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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B.
Mr. Secretary
Mr. Secretary is the formal style of address traditionally used for the United States Secretary of Defense.
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C.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the formal style of address traditionally used for the United States Secretary of Transportation.
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D.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the formal style of address traditionally used for the United States Secretary of State.
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E.
Mr. Secretary
"Mr. Secretary" is the traditional formal style of address used for the United States Secretary of the Treasury.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American film
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BDSM-themed film ⓘ film ⓘ independent film ⓘ romantic comedy-drama film ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Special Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | "Secretary" (short story) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkBy | Mary Gaitskill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| castMember |
James Spader
NERFINISHED
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Jeremy Davies NERFINISHED ⓘ Jessica Tuck NERFINISHED ⓘ Lesley Ann Warren NERFINISHED ⓘ Maggie Gyllenhaal NERFINISHED ⓘ Patrick Bauchau NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen McHattie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterPortrayed |
James Spader as E. Edward Grey
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Maggie Gyllenhaal as Lee Holloway ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Steven Fierberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Steven Shainberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Lions Gate Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Tariq Anwar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
BDSM film
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erotic drama ⓘ romantic comedy-drama ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
E. Edward Grey
NERFINISHED
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Lee Holloway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Angelo Badalamenti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | BDSM relationship between a dominant lawyer and his submissive secretary ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Maggie Gyllenhaal breakout performance
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depiction of consensual BDSM relationship ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| premiereEvent | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | Amy Hobby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Slough Pond
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TwoPoundBag Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | January 11, 2002 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| runningTime | 111 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Erin Cressida Wilson
NERFINISHED
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Steven Shainberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | law office ⓘ |
| theme |
BDSM
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power dynamics ⓘ romantic relationships ⓘ self-discovery ⓘ |
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: Secretary (2002 film) Description of subject: Secretary (2002 film) is a dark romantic comedy-drama exploring a BDSM-infused relationship between a dominant lawyer and his submissive secretary.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.