Thinner
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Thinner is a 1996 horror film based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name, following a cursed lawyer who rapidly and uncontrollably loses weight after a hit-and-run accident.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thinner canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5142543 — 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: Thinner Context triple: [Tom Holland, notableWork, Thinner]
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A.
Concrete Blonde
Concrete Blonde is an American alternative rock band best known for their dark, melodic sound and the hit single "Joey."
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B.
Nil by Mouth
Nil by Mouth is a 1997 British drama film written and directed by Gary Oldman that portrays a brutal, unflinching look at domestic violence and addiction in South London.
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C.
Powder
Powder is one of the three animal mascots of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, represented as a snowshoe hare symbolizing speed and agility.
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D.
Bigger
"Bigger" is a comedy television series created and produced by filmmaker Will Packer that follows a group of friends navigating love, careers, and ambitions in Atlanta.
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E.
Trippin’
Trippin’ is a song by the American R&B group Total, known for its smooth harmonies and late-1990s contemporary R&B sound.
- 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: Thinner Target entity description: Thinner is a 1996 horror film based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name, following a cursed lawyer who rapidly and uncontrollably loses weight after a hit-and-run accident.
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A.
Concrete Blonde
Concrete Blonde is an American alternative rock band best known for their dark, melodic sound and the hit single "Joey."
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B.
Nil by Mouth
Nil by Mouth is a 1997 British drama film written and directed by Gary Oldman that portrays a brutal, unflinching look at domestic violence and addiction in South London.
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C.
Powder
Powder is one of the three animal mascots of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, represented as a snowshoe hare symbolizing speed and agility.
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D.
Bigger
"Bigger" is a comedy television series created and produced by filmmaker Will Packer that follows a group of friends navigating love, careers, and ambitions in Atlanta.
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E.
Trippin’
Trippin’ is a song by the American R&B group Total, known for its smooth harmonies and late-1990s contemporary R&B sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | Thinner (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Stephen King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Thinner (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Kees Van Oostrum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Tom Holland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editor | Janice Hampton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
horror
ⓘ
supernatural horror ⓘ |
| hasTagline | Let the curse fit the crime. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
body horror
ⓘ
curse ⓘ guilt ⓘ retribution ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Billy Halleck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical film ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Daniel Licht NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | supernatural curse causing rapid weight loss ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A lawyer is cursed by a Romani elder after a hit-and-run accident and begins to lose weight uncontrollably. ⓘ |
| producer |
Mitchell Galin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tom Holland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Paramount Pictures
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Spelling Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | lawyer ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfSourceWork | 1984 ⓘ |
| releaseDateUS | 1996-10-25 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 92 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Jack Ketchum
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michael McDowell NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Holland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceWorkAuthorPseudonym | Richard Bachman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceWorkAuthorRealName | Stephen King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stars |
Bethany Joy Lenz
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joe Mantegna NERFINISHED ⓘ Kari Wuhrer NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucinda Jenney NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Constantine NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert John Burke 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: Thinner Description of subject: Thinner is a 1996 horror film based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name, following a cursed lawyer who rapidly and uncontrollably loses weight after a hit-and-run accident.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.