Madigan
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Madigan is a 1968 American crime drama film starring Richard Widmark as a tough New York City police detective navigating corruption and moral ambiguity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madigan canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5356134 — 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: Madigan Context triple: [Don Siegel, directed, Madigan]
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A.
Corrigan
Corrigan is an Irish-origin surname borne by numerous notable figures in fields such as religion, politics, sports, and entertainment.
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B.
Govandi
Govandi is a densely populated neighborhood in eastern Mumbai known for its informal settlements, industrial areas, and proximity to major transport routes.
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C.
Mulally
Mulally is the surname of Alan Mulally, the American engineer and former CEO known for leading major turnarounds at Boeing and Ford Motor Company.
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D.
McDermid
McDermid is a Scottish surname, often a variant of McDiarmid, borne by various individuals of Scottish and Irish heritage.
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E.
Millard
Millard is the given name of Millard Fillmore, the 13th president of the United States.
- 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: Madigan Target entity description: Madigan is a 1968 American crime drama film starring Richard Widmark as a tough New York City police detective navigating corruption and moral ambiguity.
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A.
Corrigan
Corrigan is an Irish-origin surname borne by numerous notable figures in fields such as religion, politics, sports, and entertainment.
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B.
Govandi
Govandi is a densely populated neighborhood in eastern Mumbai known for its informal settlements, industrial areas, and proximity to major transport routes.
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C.
Mulally
Mulally is the surname of Alan Mulally, the American engineer and former CEO known for leading major turnarounds at Boeing and Ford Motor Company.
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D.
McDermid
McDermid is a Scottish surname, often a variant of McDiarmid, borne by various individuals of Scottish and Irish heritage.
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E.
Millard
Millard is the given name of Millard Fillmore, the 13th president of the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Commissioner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Richard Dougherty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Commissioner Anthony X. Russell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Detective Daniel Madigan NERFINISHED ⓘ Julia Madigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Russell Metty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Don Siegel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Milton Shifman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation | Universal Studios Hollywood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime drama
ⓘ
police procedural film ⓘ |
| hasTelevisionSpinOff | Madigan (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadCharacterOccupation | New York City police detective ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
moral ambiguity
ⓘ
police corruption ⓘ urban crime ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Don Costa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early example of realistic 1960s police procedural cinema
ⓘ
gritty depiction of New York City police work ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Frank P. Rosenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1968-03-20 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1968 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 101 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Abraham Polonsky
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Howard Rodman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Manhattan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| starring |
Harry Guardino
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry Fonda NERFINISHED ⓘ Inger Stevens NERFINISHED ⓘ James Whitmore NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Dunn NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Widmark NERFINISHED ⓘ Susan Clark 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: Madigan Description of subject: Madigan is a 1968 American crime drama film starring Richard Widmark as a tough New York City police detective navigating corruption and moral ambiguity.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.