Dead Man
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Dead Man is a 1995 black-and-white revisionist Western film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, known for its surreal, existential tone and a score by Neil Young.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dead Man canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5142846 — 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: Dead Man Context triple: [Jim Jarmusch, notableWork, Dead Man]
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A.
Dead Man’s Grip
Dead Man’s Grip is a crime thriller novel by British author Peter James, featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigating a deadly chain of events triggered by a fatal traffic accident.
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B.
Dead Men’s Shoes
"Dead Men’s Shoes" is a short story by Kate Chopin, included in her 1897 collection *A Night in Acadie*, that explores themes of identity, social expectation, and personal transformation in a Southern setting.
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C.
Deadman
Deadman is a key supporting character in the video game "Death Stranding," a Bridges organization member who assists protagonist Sam Porter Bridges with scientific and technical expertise related to Bridge Babies and the Death Stranding phenomenon.
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D.
Deadman
Deadman is a DC Comics superhero and ghostly acrobat, best known as the spirit of Boston Brand who seeks justice after his own murder.
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E.
Dead Man’s Footsteps
Dead Man’s Footsteps is a crime thriller novel by British author Peter James, featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace as he investigates a mystery linked to the 9/11 attacks and a long-buried secret.
- 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: Dead Man Target entity description: Dead Man is a 1995 black-and-white revisionist Western film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, known for its surreal, existential tone and a score by Neil Young.
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A.
Dead Man’s Grip
Dead Man’s Grip is a crime thriller novel by British author Peter James, featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace investigating a deadly chain of events triggered by a fatal traffic accident.
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B.
Dead Men’s Shoes
"Dead Men’s Shoes" is a short story by Kate Chopin, included in her 1897 collection *A Night in Acadie*, that explores themes of identity, social expectation, and personal transformation in a Southern setting.
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C.
Deadman
Deadman is a key supporting character in the video game "Death Stranding," a Bridges organization member who assists protagonist Sam Porter Bridges with scientific and technical expertise related to Bridge Babies and the Death Stranding phenomenon.
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D.
Deadman
Deadman is a DC Comics superhero and ghostly acrobat, best known as the spirit of Boston Brand who seeks justice after his own murder.
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E.
Dead Man’s Footsteps
Dead Man’s Footsteps is a crime thriller novel by British author Peter James, featuring Detective Superintendent Roy Grace as he investigates a mystery linked to the 9/11 attacks and a long-buried secret.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Western film
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film ⓘ revisionist Western film ⓘ |
| cinematography | Robby Müller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| director | Jim Jarmusch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Miramax Films ⓘ |
| editor | Jay Rabinowitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Nobody
NERFINISHED
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William Blake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingStyle | black-and-white cinematography ⓘ |
| genre |
Western
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existential film ⓘ revisionist Western ⓘ surrealist film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
death
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identity ⓘ spiritual journey ⓘ violence in the American West ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Nobody
NERFINISHED
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William Blake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Neil Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
existential themes
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improvised electric guitar score by Neil Young ⓘ surreal tone ⓘ |
| producer |
Demetra J. MacBride
NERFINISHED
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Jim Jarmusch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | 12 Gauge Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 121 minutes ⓘ |
| screenplayBy | Jim Jarmusch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | American frontier ⓘ |
| settingTime | late 19th century ⓘ |
| starring |
Billy Bob Thornton
NERFINISHED
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Crispin Glover NERFINISHED ⓘ Gabriel Byrne NERFINISHED ⓘ Gary Farmer NERFINISHED ⓘ Iggy Pop NERFINISHED ⓘ John Hurt NERFINISHED ⓘ Johnny Depp NERFINISHED ⓘ Lance Henriksen NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Wincott NERFINISHED ⓘ Mili Avital NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Mitchum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleCharacter | William Blake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writer | Jim Jarmusch 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: Dead Man Description of subject: Dead Man is a 1995 black-and-white revisionist Western film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, known for its surreal, existential tone and a score by Neil Young.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.