The Silent Partner
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The Silent Partner is a 1978 Canadian heist thriller film, written by Curtis Hanson and starring Elliott Gould and Christopher Plummer, known for its tense cat-and-mouse plot and clever twists.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Silent Partner canonical | 2 |
| The Silent Partner (1978 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5699350 — 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 Silent Partner Context triple: [Havoc, notableWork, The Silent Partner]
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A.
The Partner
The Partner is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows a lawyer who fakes his death and steals millions from his firm, only to be hunted down years later.
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B.
The Partners
The Partners is an art and design studio known for creating striking book cover artwork, including the cover for the James Bond novel "Devil May Care."
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C.
The Great Partnership
The Great Partnership is a book by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks that explores the relationship between religion and science, arguing that they offer complementary ways of understanding human existence.
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D.
The Improbable Triumvirate
The Improbable Triumvirate is a nonfiction work by American editor and peace advocate Norman Cousins that examines the unlikely diplomatic relationships and events that helped ease Cold War tensions.
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E.
The Silent Second
The Silent Second is the nickname of the U.S. Marine Corps’ 2nd Marine Division, a storied infantry division known for its combat service in major conflicts since World War II.
- 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 Silent Partner Target entity description: The Silent Partner is a 1978 Canadian heist thriller film, written by Curtis Hanson and starring Elliott Gould and Christopher Plummer, known for its tense cat-and-mouse plot and clever twists.
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A.
The Partner
The Partner is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham that follows a lawyer who fakes his death and steals millions from his firm, only to be hunted down years later.
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B.
The Partners
The Partners is an art and design studio known for creating striking book cover artwork, including the cover for the James Bond novel "Devil May Care."
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C.
The Great Partnership
The Great Partnership is a book by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks that explores the relationship between religion and science, arguing that they offer complementary ways of understanding human existence.
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D.
The Improbable Triumvirate
The Improbable Triumvirate is a nonfiction work by American editor and peace advocate Norman Cousins that examines the unlikely diplomatic relationships and events that helped ease Cold War tensions.
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E.
The Silent Second
The Silent Second is the nickname of the U.S. Marine Corps’ 2nd Marine Division, a storied infantry division known for its combat service in major conflicts since World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| award | Etrog Award for Best Feature Film NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardCountry | Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Think of a Number NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnAuthor | Anders Bodelsen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Billy Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| colorProcess | color ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| director | Daryl Duke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Pan-Canadian Film Distributors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | George Appleby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime
ⓘ
heist ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasCultFollowing | true ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
bank robbery
ⓘ
deception ⓘ greed ⓘ psychological manipulation ⓘ |
| leadCharacterOccupation | bank teller ⓘ |
| mainAntagonistPortrayedBy | Christopher Plummer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainProtagonistPortrayedBy | Elliott Gould NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | theatrical film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Oscar Peterson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | feature-length fiction ⓘ |
| notableFor |
clever heist plot
ⓘ
tense atmosphere ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf | Canadian cinema of the 1970s ⓘ |
| plotCharacteristic |
cat-and-mouse
ⓘ
plot twists ⓘ |
| producer | Stephen Young NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Quadrant Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 106 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Curtis Hanson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingLocation | Toronto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Christopher Plummer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Céline Lomez NERFINISHED ⓘ Elliott Gould NERFINISHED ⓘ John Candy NERFINISHED ⓘ Susannah York 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
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Input
Subject: The Silent Partner Description of subject: The Silent Partner is a 1978 Canadian heist thriller film, written by Curtis Hanson and starring Elliott Gould and Christopher Plummer, known for its tense cat-and-mouse plot and clever twists.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Silent Partner (1978 film)