The Shack
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The Shack is a 2017 faith-based drama film, adapted from William P. Young’s novel, that explores grief, forgiveness, and spirituality through a man’s transformative encounter with the divine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Shack canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4809221 — 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 Shack Context triple: [Octavia Spencer, notableWork, The Shack]
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A.
Hereafter
"Hereafter" is a 2010 supernatural drama film directed by Clint Eastwood that explores themes of death, the afterlife, and human connection through the intertwined stories of three people affected by mortality.
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B.
The Salvation
The Salvation is a 2014 Danish-directed Western film starring Mads Mikkelsen as a settler seeking revenge in the American frontier.
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C.
The Gift
The Gift is a fertile northern territory in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire, lying just south of the Wall and historically granted to the Night's Watch to support its upkeep.
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D.
The Gift
The Gift is a 2000 supernatural thriller film directed by Sam Raimi, centered on a Southern clairvoyant whose psychic visions entangle her in a murder investigation.
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E.
Book of Signs
The Book of Signs is the first major section of the Gospel of John, characterized by a series of Jesus’ miraculous works that reveal his identity and mission.
- 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 Shack Target entity description: The Shack is a 2017 faith-based drama film, adapted from William P. Young’s novel, that explores grief, forgiveness, and spirituality through a man’s transformative encounter with the divine.
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A.
Hereafter
"Hereafter" is a 2010 supernatural drama film directed by Clint Eastwood that explores themes of death, the afterlife, and human connection through the intertwined stories of three people affected by mortality.
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B.
The Salvation
The Salvation is a 2014 Danish-directed Western film starring Mads Mikkelsen as a settler seeking revenge in the American frontier.
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C.
The Gift
The Gift is a fertile northern territory in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire, lying just south of the Wall and historically granted to the Night's Watch to support its upkeep.
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D.
The Gift
The Gift is a 2000 supernatural thriller film directed by Sam Raimi, centered on a Southern clairvoyant whose psychic visions entangle her in a murder investigation.
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E.
Book of Signs
The Book of Signs is the first major section of the Gospel of John, characterized by a series of Jesus’ miraculous works that reveal his identity and mission.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
faith-based drama film
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film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceMaterial | William P. Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Shack (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| boxOfficeGrossWorldwide | over $90 million ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Declan Quinn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| director | Stuart Hazeldine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Lionsgate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | William Steinkamp NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Jesus
NERFINISHED
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Papa NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarayu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Christian film
ⓘ
drama film ⓘ fantasy drama film ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Mackenzie "Mack" Phillips NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
faith
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forgiveness ⓘ grief ⓘ spirituality ⓘ the problem of evil ⓘ |
| MPAARating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| musicBy | Aaron Zigman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | a father’s transformative encounter with the divine after family tragedy ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| portrays | the Trinity in human form ⓘ |
| producer |
Brad Cummings
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gil Netter NERFINISHED ⓘ Wayne Jacobsen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Netter Productions
NERFINISHED
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Summit Entertainment NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistPortrayedBy | Sam Worthington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2017-03-03 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2017 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 132 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Andrew Lanham
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Destin Daniel Cretton NERFINISHED ⓘ John Fusco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Alice Braga
NERFINISHED
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Amélie Eve NERFINISHED ⓘ Aviv Alush NERFINISHED ⓘ Gage Munroe NERFINISHED ⓘ Graham Greene NERFINISHED ⓘ Megan Charpentier NERFINISHED ⓘ Octavia Spencer NERFINISHED ⓘ Radha Mitchell NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Worthington NERFINISHED ⓘ Sumire Matsubara NERFINISHED ⓘ Tim McGraw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | The Shack 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 Shack Description of subject: The Shack is a 2017 faith-based drama film, adapted from William P. Young’s novel, that explores grief, forgiveness, and spirituality through a man’s transformative encounter with the divine.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.