The Station Agent
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The Station Agent is a 2003 independent dramedy film about a reclusive man who inherits an abandoned train depot and unexpectedly forms close friendships in a small New Jersey town.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Station Agent canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5264492 — 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 Station Agent Context triple: [Bobby Cannavale, notableWork, The Station Agent]
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A.
The Station
The Station is a painting by British artist L. S. Lowry, known for its distinctive depiction of industrial urban life with stylized figures and stark architectural forms.
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B.
The Passenger
The Passenger is a late-career novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a haunted salvage diver entangled in mystery, guilt, and philosophical inquiry in the aftermath of his sister’s suicide.
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C.
The Passenger
"The Passenger" is a 1977 rock song by Iggy Pop, known for its driving rhythm, iconic "la-la-la" chorus, and enduring influence as one of his signature tracks.
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D.
The Singing Brakeman
The Singing Brakeman was the nickname of Jimmie Rodgers, a pioneering early country music star famed for his distinctive yodeling and railroad-themed songs.
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E.
The Lonedale Operator
The Lonedale Operator is a 1911 silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith, noted for its innovative cross-cutting and suspenseful storytelling in early cinema.
- 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 Station Agent Target entity description: The Station Agent is a 2003 independent dramedy film about a reclusive man who inherits an abandoned train depot and unexpectedly forms close friendships in a small New Jersey town.
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A.
The Station
The Station is a painting by British artist L. S. Lowry, known for its distinctive depiction of industrial urban life with stylized figures and stark architectural forms.
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B.
The Passenger
The Passenger is a late-career novel by Cormac McCarthy that follows a haunted salvage diver entangled in mystery, guilt, and philosophical inquiry in the aftermath of his sister’s suicide.
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C.
The Passenger
"The Passenger" is a 1977 rock song by Iggy Pop, known for its driving rhythm, iconic "la-la-la" chorus, and enduring influence as one of his signature tracks.
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D.
The Singing Brakeman
The Singing Brakeman was the nickname of Jimmie Rodgers, a pioneering early country music star famed for his distinctive yodeling and railroad-themed songs.
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E.
The Lonedale Operator
The Lonedale Operator is a 1911 silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith, noted for its innovative cross-cutting and suspenseful storytelling in early cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay nomination
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay NERFINISHED ⓘ Sundance Film Festival Audience Award (Drama) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography | Oliver Bokelberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Tom McCarthy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedInFormat | theatrical release ⓘ |
| distributor | Miramax Films ⓘ |
| editedBy | Tom McArdle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacterWithTrait | protagonist with dwarfism ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy film
ⓘ
comedy-drama ⓘ drama film ⓘ |
| hasSettingElement |
abandoned train depot
ⓘ
small town community ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
acceptance
ⓘ
friendship ⓘ isolation ⓘ loneliness ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Finbar McBride
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joe Oramas NERFINISHED ⓘ Olivia Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Stephen Trask NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early breakout role for Peter Dinklage
ⓘ
subtle character-driven storytelling ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A reclusive man inherits an abandoned train depot in rural New Jersey and unexpectedly forms close friendships with local residents. ⓘ |
| producer |
Mary Jane Skalski
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert May NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2003-10-03 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2003 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 89 ⓘ |
| screenDebutType | feature directorial debut of Tom McCarthy ⓘ |
| screenplayBy | Tom McCarthy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Bobby Cannavale
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Michelle Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ Patricia Clarkson NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Dinklage NERFINISHED ⓘ Raven Goodwin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 2000s ⓘ |
| writer | Tom McCarthy 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 Station Agent Description of subject: The Station Agent is a 2003 independent dramedy film about a reclusive man who inherits an abandoned train depot and unexpectedly forms close friendships in a small New Jersey town.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.