Rollerball
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Rollerball is a 1975 dystopian science fiction sports film depicting a violent future game used by corporations to control society.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rollerball canonical | 10 |
| Rollerball (2002 film) | 5 |
| Rollerball (1975 film) | 2 |
| Roller Ball? (short story) | 1 |
| Rollerball (sport) | 1 |
| Rollerball (violent arena game) | 1 |
| Rollerball franchise | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T432909 — 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: Rollerball Context triple: [Norman Jewison, notableWork, Rollerball]
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A.
Vecherniy Kvartal
Vecherniy Kvartal is a popular Ukrainian comedy and satirical TV show known for its sketches, political humor, and live performances.
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B.
Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
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C.
Blowback
Blowback is a political nonfiction book by Chalmers Johnson that critiques U.S. foreign policy and explores how American military and economic actions abroad can provoke unintended and often violent consequences.
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D.
The Ball
The Ball is the popular nickname for Reunion Tower, a distinctive geodesic observation tower and Dallas landmark known for its glowing spherical top.
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E.
Devils Playground
Devils Playground is a remote, arid expanse of sand dunes and desert terrain located within California’s Mojave Desert.
- 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: Rollerball Target entity description: Rollerball is a 1975 dystopian science fiction sports film depicting a violent future game used by corporations to control society.
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A.
Vecherniy Kvartal
Vecherniy Kvartal is a popular Ukrainian comedy and satirical TV show known for its sketches, political humor, and live performances.
-
B.
Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
-
C.
Blowback
Blowback is a political nonfiction book by Chalmers Johnson that critiques U.S. foreign policy and explores how American military and economic actions abroad can provoke unintended and often violent consequences.
-
D.
The Ball
The Ball is the popular nickname for Reunion Tower, a distinctive geodesic observation tower and Dallas landmark known for its glowing spherical top.
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E.
Devils Playground
Devils Playground is a remote, arid expanse of sand dunes and desert terrain located within California’s Mojave Desert.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dystopian film
ⓘ
film ⓘ science fiction film ⓘ sports film ⓘ |
| aspectOf | 1970s science fiction cinema ⓘ |
| award | Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film (nominated) ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Rollerball
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Roller Ball? (short story)
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| basedOnAuthor | William Harrison ⓘ |
| castMember |
James Caan
ⓘ
John Houseman ⓘ Maud Adams ⓘ Moses Gunn ⓘ Ralph Richardson ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
corporate control of society
ⓘ
individualism versus collectivism ⓘ violence as social control ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Douglas Slocombe ⓘ |
| colorProcess | color ⓘ |
| composer | André Previn ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| depicts | corporate-dominated world ⓘ |
| director | Norman Jewison ⓘ |
| distributor | United Artists ⓘ |
| distributorRegion | theatrical ⓘ |
| editor |
Antony Gibbs
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surface form:
Anthony Gibbs
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| fictionalSport |
Rollerball
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Rollerball (violent arena game)
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| filmingLocation |
Munich
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ West Germany ⓘ |
| filmRating | R (MPAA) ⓘ |
| genre |
dystopian
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| hasRemake |
Rollerball
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Rollerball (2002 film)
|
| mainCharacter | Jonathan E. ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunctionOfGame | tool of corporate control ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critique of corporate power
ⓘ
depiction of a violent corporate-controlled sport ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer | Norman Jewison ⓘ |
| productionCompany | United Artists ⓘ |
| protagonistPortrayedBy | James Caan ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1975-06-25 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1975 ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 125 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | William Harrison ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | future ⓘ |
| title | Rollerball self-link ⓘ |
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: Rollerball Description of subject: Rollerball is a 1975 dystopian science fiction sports film depicting a violent future game used by corporations to control society.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rollerball (2002 film)
this entity surface form:
Rollerball (1975 film)
this entity surface form:
Roller Ball? (short story)
this entity surface form:
Rollerball (violent arena game)
this entity surface form:
Rollerball (2002 film)
this entity surface form:
Rollerball (2002 film)
this entity surface form:
Rollerball (sport)
this entity surface form:
Rollerball (1975 film)
this entity surface form:
Rollerball franchise
this entity surface form:
Rollerball (2002 film)
this entity surface form:
Rollerball (2002 film)