The Messenger
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The Messenger is a 2009 war drama film about U.S. Army casualty notification officers, co-written and directed by Oren Moverman and acclaimed for its powerful performances and sensitive treatment of grief and duty.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Messenger canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5352044 — 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 Messenger Context triple: [Oren Moverman, knownFor, The Messenger]
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A.
The Messenger
The Messenger was an influential early 20th-century African American socialist magazine that advocated for civil rights, labor organizing, and racial equality.
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B.
The Messenger
The Messenger is a local newspaper serving the community of Urmston in Greater Manchester, England, providing news, events, and information relevant to the area.
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C.
The Message
"The Message" is a pioneering 1982 hip-hop track by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, produced and co-written by Sylvia Robinson, renowned for its stark social commentary on urban life.
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D.
Kill the Messenger
Kill the Messenger is a 2008 stand-up comedy special by Chris Rock that showcases his sharp, politically charged observational humor across performances in New York, London, and Johannesburg.
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E.
Kill the Messenger
Kill the Messenger is a 2014 American crime thriller film based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb’s investigation into CIA involvement in drug trafficking.
- 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 Messenger Target entity description: The Messenger is a 2009 war drama film about U.S. Army casualty notification officers, co-written and directed by Oren Moverman and acclaimed for its powerful performances and sensitive treatment of grief and duty.
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A.
The Messenger
The Messenger was an influential early 20th-century African American socialist magazine that advocated for civil rights, labor organizing, and racial equality.
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B.
The Messenger
The Messenger is a local newspaper serving the community of Urmston in Greater Manchester, England, providing news, events, and information relevant to the area.
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C.
The Message
"The Message" is a pioneering 1982 hip-hop track by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, produced and co-written by Sylvia Robinson, renowned for its stark social commentary on urban life.
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D.
Kill the Messenger
Kill the Messenger is a 2008 stand-up comedy special by Chris Rock that showcases his sharp, politically charged observational humor across performances in New York, London, and Johannesburg.
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E.
Kill the Messenger
Kill the Messenger is a 2014 American crime thriller film based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb’s investigation into CIA involvement in drug trafficking.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Bobby Bukowski NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coWriter |
Alessandro Camon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oren Moverman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticalReception | acclaimed ⓘ |
| director | Oren Moverman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Oscilloscope Laboratories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy |
Alexander Hall
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carol Littleton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmRating | R ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
war drama ⓘ |
| hasAwardNomination |
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor NERFINISHED ⓘ Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature NERFINISHED ⓘ Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay NERFINISHED ⓘ Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
U.S. Army casualty notification officers
ⓘ
grief ⓘ military duty ⓘ |
| musicBy | Nathan Larson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedPerson |
Alessandro Camon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Oren Moverman NERFINISHED ⓘ Woody Harrelson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
powerful performances
ⓘ
sensitive treatment of grief and duty ⓘ |
| portrays |
effects of war on soldiers
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military notification process to next of kin ⓘ |
| producer |
Lawrence Inglee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mark Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ Zach Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2009-01-16 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| reviewAggregationSite |
Metacritic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rotten Tomatoes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 113 ⓘ |
| screenplayType | original screenplay ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | Iraq War era ⓘ |
| starring |
Ben Foster
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jena Malone NERFINISHED ⓘ Samantha Morton NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Buscemi NERFINISHED ⓘ Woody Harrelson 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 Messenger Description of subject: The Messenger is a 2009 war drama film about U.S. Army casualty notification officers, co-written and directed by Oren Moverman and acclaimed for its powerful performances and sensitive treatment of grief and duty.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.