Rails & Ties
E528823
Rails & Ties is a 2007 drama film directed by Alison Eastwood that explores the emotional aftermath of a tragic train accident and the unlikely family formed in its wake.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rails & Ties canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5587654 — 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: Rails & Ties Context triple: [Alison Eastwood, notableWork, Rails & Ties]
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A.
Suit & Tie
"Suit & Tie" is a 2013 R&B single by Justin Timberlake featuring Jay-Z, known for its smooth, retro-inspired production and marking Timberlake’s high-profile return to music.
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B.
The Ties That Bind
"The Ties That Bind" is a song by Bruce Springsteen, best known as the opening track of his 1980 album "The River."
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C.
Ties by Domenico Starnone
"Ties" by Domenico Starnone is an Italian novel—rendered into English by Jhumpa Lahiri—that explores the long-term fallout of marital betrayal and family rupture with sharp psychological insight.
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D.
Rake
Rake is a Ruby-based build automation tool similar to Make, used to define and run tasks via Ruby code.
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E.
Rake
Rake is an Australian television legal comedy-drama series centered on a brilliant but self-destructive criminal defense barrister.
- 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: Rails & Ties Target entity description: Rails & Ties is a 2007 drama film directed by Alison Eastwood that explores the emotional aftermath of a tragic train accident and the unlikely family formed in its wake.
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A.
Suit & Tie
"Suit & Tie" is a 2013 R&B single by Justin Timberlake featuring Jay-Z, known for its smooth, retro-inspired production and marking Timberlake’s high-profile return to music.
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B.
The Ties That Bind
"The Ties That Bind" is a song by Bruce Springsteen, best known as the opening track of his 1980 album "The River."
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C.
Ties by Domenico Starnone
"Ties" by Domenico Starnone is an Italian novel—rendered into English by Jhumpa Lahiri—that explores the long-term fallout of marital betrayal and family rupture with sharp psychological insight.
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D.
Rake
Rake is a Ruby-based build automation tool similar to Make, used to define and run tasks via Ruby code.
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E.
Rake
Rake is an Australian television legal comedy-drama series centered on a brilliant but self-destructive criminal defense barrister.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Tom Stern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Alison Eastwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributedBy | Warner Bros. Pictures ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | North America ⓘ |
| editedBy | Gary D. Roach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hasCastMember |
Bonnie Root
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eugene Byrd NERFINISHED ⓘ Kevin Bacon NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcia Gay Harden NERFINISHED ⓘ Marin Hinkle NERFINISHED ⓘ Miles Heizer NERFINISHED ⓘ Steve Eastin NERFINISHED ⓘ Tamara Van Lier NERFINISHED ⓘ Zoe Perry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Davey Danner
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Megan Stark NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Stark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
coping with loss
ⓘ
forgiveness ⓘ responsibility ⓘ surrogate family ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
emotional aftermath
ⓘ
family ⓘ grief ⓘ train accident ⓘ |
| musicBy | Mark Isham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A train engineer involved in a fatal accident and his ailing wife form an unlikely family bond with a young boy orphaned by the crash. ⓘ |
| premiereEvent | Toronto International Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Alison Eastwood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Lorenz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Malpaso Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2007-09-08 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 101 ⓘ |
| setIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| writer | M.icky Levy 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: Rails & Ties Description of subject: Rails & Ties is a 2007 drama film directed by Alison Eastwood that explores the emotional aftermath of a tragic train accident and the unlikely family formed in its wake.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.